A Solemn Prayer
Here in the chapel I kneel in silence
Offering humble prayer to God
My pained feet hold sore memory
Of the many tours they've trod
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For though I am a Catholic boy
My mother raised me right
I did escape from my room
In the barracks just last night
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There was this girl in town
We're becoming such good friends
My affections I could not keep from her
And she lives right 'round the bend
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I crept away from the barracks
Crawling out across the grass
But on my return the night watchman
Almost shot me in the ass
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It may matter not how strait the gate
How charged with punishments the scroll
But my sore and anguished, tender feet
Feel as if they've walked on burning coal
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From all my wrongs I've learned a lesson
Through hard discipline it's been taught
Lord, I'll surely go astray again
So please help me don't get caught!
