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!