Great future for us was in store,
For I was an able mechanic,
And honest and square to the core.
What happened to me I will tell you;
I was “ditched” for a desperate crime;
There was hell in a bank about midnight,
And my pal was shot down in his prime.
As a convict of hard reputation,
Ten years of hard grind I did land,
And I often thought of the pleasures