Steamboat Navigation Thieves Lyrics

Well, the only legal swindle

Which the people cannot sever

Is a steamboat imposition

On the Sacramento River

It would surely be a blessing

If the company would fail

Then you should organize

Ride on the rail

Remember now, remember now

Remember what I say

Keep your hands upon your money

They'll rob you on the way

Keep your hands upon your money

They'll rob you on the way

If you don't believe, just try it

Either to or from the bay

They've robbed a world of people

But still there's none say a word

For if ever they were passengers

They'd be thrown overboard

If you start an opposition

You know eight of every nine

Will be impositioned

Down on the combination line

Remember now, remember now

Remember what I say

Keep your hands upon your money

They'll rob you on the way

Keep your hands upon your money

They'll rob you on the way

If you don't believe, just try it

Either to or from the bay

They'll rob you all the way

If you stop in Sacramento

Get stuck in open sands

All you've got to do

Is jump up and foot-by-land

If the devil ever gets them

He'll put them in every soul

In the lowest pits of purgatory

To shovel coal

Remember now, remember now

Remember what I say

Keep your hands upon your money

They'll rob you on the way

Keep your hands upon your money

They'll rob you on the way

If you don't believe, just try it

Either to or from the bay

They'll rob you all the way