New Deal String Band - DIDNT HE RAMBLE Lyrics

1: Mother raised three grown sons, Buster, Bill and me.
Buster was the black sheep of our little family.
Mother tried to break him of his rough and rowdy ways.
She finally had to get the judge to give him ninety days.

Ref: And didn't he ramble, ramble?
He rambled all around, in and out the town.
Oh, didn't he ramble, ramble?
He rambled till them butchers cut him down!

2: He rambled in a gambling game. The game was on the green
And the gamblers there showed him a trick that he had never seen.
He lost his gold and jewelry, he like to lost his life,
He lost the car that carried him there and somebody stole his wife.

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3: He rambled in a swell hotel; his appetite was stout,
But when he refused to pay the bill the landlord kicked him out.
He grabbed a brick to smack him with, but when he went to stop The landlord kicked him over the fence, right in a barrel of slop.

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