When I was just a boy, I knew this little girl A pretty little thing named Josephine A tiny little lust in our tiny little world I was willing, she was pretty, long and lean We first made love in the summer Her daddy found out that fall He beat her with his fists upon the lips that I’d just kissed And shipped her off down to the Boston States Oh he shipped her off down to the Boston States
When I turned seventeen, I joined the King’s Marine And took my place among the world of men It’d been two years since I’d seen my pretty Josephine I wondered if I’d see her face again Then the news came of rebellion Down New England way We sailed in the spring in the name of the king They shipped me off down to the Boston States Oh, they shipped me off down to the Boston States
We marched to Concord town to unleash hell and fury To teach the rebel scum the art of war They beat us back, they shot me down They dragged my ass on into town With a dead man that I ran through before In a solitary act of retribution They threw me at his widow’s feet I raised my eyes to see my pretty Josephine A twist of fate down in the Boston States Oh, a twist of fate down in the Boston States
The well inside my heart is dry, a reminiscing fool am I Holding on to memories of old A potent brew of love and guilt, planted seed and blood first spilt And a strapping lad that surely was my own She bade me well and begged I take the boy Back home to Port Shoreham with me She gave to me the sweetest kiss and then she slit her wrists And died for nothing down in the Boston States Oh, died for nothing down in the Boston States
Josephine, If you could see our boy now You’d be so proud, you’d be happy I did my best to raise him on my own in your memory He asks about you from time to time I never know what to say So on this lonesome night, I told him that you died a hero down in the Boston States Oh, died a hero down in the Boston States
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