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Am I To Be Blamed? Am I To Be Blamed?

The narrator is being chased by police officers and claims to have stolen money to help their starving mother and siblings. When brought to the police station, the narrator pleads their case to the captain, explaining how their family fell into poverty after their father abandoned them and mother became ill. The narrator brings the captain to their dilapidated home, where the captain finds the narrator's dead mother. The narrator asks the captain if they should be blamed for what they have done to survive and help their family in such difficult circumstances.

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Am I To Be Blamed? Am I To Be Blamed?

The narrator is being chased by police officers and claims to have stolen money to help their starving mother and siblings. When brought to the police station, the narrator pleads their case to the captain, explaining how their family fell into poverty after their father abandoned them and mother became ill. The narrator brings the captain to their dilapidated home, where the captain finds the narrator's dead mother. The narrator asks the captain if they should be blamed for what they have done to survive and help their family in such difficult circumstances.

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AM I TO BE BLAMED?

AM I TO BE BLAMED?
They’re chasing me, they’re chasing,
no they must not catch me, I have They’re chasing me, they’re chasing,
enough money now, yes enough for my no they must not catch me, I have
starving mother and brothers. enough money now, yes enough for my
starving mother and brothers.
Please let me go, let me go home
before you imprisoned me. Please let me go, let me go home
before you imprisoned me.
Very well, officers? take me to your
headquarters. Good morning captain! Very well, officers? take me to your
no captain, you are mistaken, I was headquarters. Good morning captain!
once a good girl, just like the rest of no captain, you are mistaken, I was
you here. Just like any of your once a good girl, just like the rest of
daughters. But time was, when I was you here. Just like any of your
reared in slums. But we lived honestly, daughters. But time was, when I was
we lived honestly in life. My, father, reared in slums. But we lived honestly,
mother, brothers, sisters and I. But we lived honestly in life. My, father,
then, poverty enters the portals of our mother, brothers, sisters and I. But
home. My father became jobless, my then, poverty enters the portals of our
mother got ill. The small savings that home. My father became jobless, my
my mother had kept for our expenses mother got ill. The small savings that
were spent. All for our daily needs and my mother had kept for our expenses
her needed medicine. were spent. All for our daily needs and
her needed medicine.
One night, my father went out, telling
us that he would come back in a few One night, my father went out, telling
minutes with plenty of foods and us that he would come back in a few
money, but that was the last time I saw minutes with plenty of foods and
him. He went with another woman. If money, but that was the last time I saw
only I could lay my hands on his neck I him. He went with another woman. If
would wring it without pain until he only I could lay my hands on his neck I
breaths no more. If you were in my would wring it without pain until he
place, you’ll do it, won’t you Captain? breaths no more. If you were in my
What? you won’t still believe in me?. place, you’ll do it, won’t you Captain?
Come and I’ll show you a dilapidated What? you won’t still believe in me?.
shanty by a railroad. Come and I’ll show you a dilapidated
shanty by a railroad.
Mother, mother I’m home, mother?
mother?!. There Captain, see my dead Mother, mother I’m home, mother?
mother. Captain? there are tears in mother?!. There Captain, see my dead
your eyes? now pack this stolen money mother. Captain? there are tears in
and return it to the owner. What good your eyes? now pack this stolen money
would this do to my mother now? she’s and return it to the owner. What good
already gone! Do you hear me? she’s would this do to my mother now? she’s
already gone. Am I to be blamed for already gone! Do you hear me? she’s
the things I have done? already gone. Am I to be blamed for
the things I have done?

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