BALLAD OF THE ROBBERS

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Song Title
BALLAD OF THE ROBBERS
Writers
Weill, Anderson
Publisher
HAMPSHIRE HOUSE PUBLISHING CORP. (ASCAP)
Co-Publisher
Non-TRO Affiliate
% Publisher Controls
50%
Territory Controlled
US
Themes/Keywords
Animals, Bars, Honesty, Jail, Justice, Men, Prison, Robbery, Stole, Thieves
Lyrics
When first men fled from Eden fair
And spread upon the ground
The honest men were much annoyed
By thieves that hung around.
They stole the horses from the barns,
They stole the eggs and hams,
Made inroads on the cattle and
Among the sheep and lambs.

And so the honest men sat down
Around a pot of ale
And made a law that all the thieves
Should be confined in jail,
Whereat the thieves were all confined
Behind those dismal bars,
So honest men could walk abroad to bus’nesses or wars.

But then there was a clever thief
Who up and said, said he,
The honest men have grown so few,
So numerous are we,
That if we band together now
Against the honest men,
The honest men will go to jail
And we’ll go free again.

So then the thieves and robbers rose
By twos and threes and fours,
And put the honest men away
Behind those clanging doors.
And since that time it has obtained
And will obtain, no doubt,
The honest men sit in the jails,
The robbers they are out!

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