Jeff Buckley — Poor Boy Long Way from Home

[Intro] (This is called "Poor Boy") [Verse 1] Me and poor boy was travelling Travelling a long way from home Me and poor boy got pulled off Got pulled off and prison bound [Verse 2] My dear mother, she got worried When we was down all in the farm Mama, she called that farmer on up And they told her that her sons' prison bound [Verse 3] My dear mother got on the farm She called down a little farm My mother talked to the sergeant He wanted not to have mercy out on bail [Verse 4] Well this sergeant told dear mother He would take 200 dollar bill We didn't have no one To come and get us out on bail [Verse 5] Poor boy, he got all worried Come walking to us breaking down I said "Poor boy, don't worry Our mother get us out of prison bound" [Verse 4] Well this sergeant told dear mother He would take two hundred dollar bill We didn't have no one To come and get us out of bail [Verse 6] Oh, my mother she got worried She couldn't get them two hundred dollar bill So one Sunday morning My mother, she drove to the farm [Verse 7] Well, the sergeant met my mother Drove on up to her at the gate My mother, she told the sergeant She never had no two hundred dollar bill! [Verse 8] Well, my mother she kneeled down My mother kneeled down on her knee Oh, my mother pleas the Sergeant "Will you please sir have some mercy on me?" [Verse 9] My dear mother, she really cryin' Told the sergeant, then she broke down He said "These boys promised They will not hobo on my train!" [Verse 10] I said "Listen, brother poor boy Don't be worried cryin' Somebody, somebody, somewhere Is gonna get us off prison bound"