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Composer: Woody Guthrie

Woody Guthrie - Pretty Boy Floyd lyrics



PRETTY BOY FLOYD
(Woody Guthrie)

Come gather round me children, a story I will tell
Of Pretty Boy Floyd, an outlaw, Oklahoma knew him well

Was in the town of Shawnee on a Saturday afternoon
His wife beside him in the wagon as into town they rode

A deputy sheriff approached them in a manner rather rude
Using vulgar words of language and his wife she overheard

Well, Pretty Boy grabbed a long chain, and the deputy grabbed a gun
And in the fight that followed, he laid that deputy down

Then he took to the trees and rivers to lead a life of shame
Every crime in Oklahoma was added to his name

Yes he took to the trees and timbers on the Canadian river shore
And the outlaw found a welcome at many a farmer's door

Yes, there's many a starving farmer, the same story told
How the outlaw paid their mortgage and saved their little home

Others tell about the stranger who came to beg a meal
And underneath the napkin left a thousand dollar bill

It was in Oklahoma City, it was on a Christmas day
Came a whole carload of groceries and a letter that did say

Well, you say that I'm an outlaw, and you say that I'm a thief
Here's a Christmas dinner for the families on relief

Well, as through the world I've rambled, I've seen lots of funny
men
Some rob you with a sixgun, some with a fountain pen

As through this world you ramble, as through this world you roam
You'll never see an outlaw drive a family from its home
recorded by Seeger - 3 Saints
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===DOCUMENT BOUNDARY
Songs list of album: Struggle (1976)
         Title Rating
01    Struggle Blues lyrics Add lyrics   -
02    A Dollar Down lyrics Add lyrics   -
03    Get Along Little Doggies lyrics Add lyrics   -
04    Hang Knot lyrics Add lyrics   -
05    Waiting at the Gate lyrics Add lyrics   -
06    The Dying Miner lyrics Add lyrics   -
07    Union Burying Ground lyrics Add lyrics   -
08    Lost John lyrics Add lyrics   -
09    Buffalo Skinners lyrics Add lyrics   -
10   Pretty Boy Floyd lyrics   -
11   Ludlow Massacre lyrics   -
12    1913 Massacre lyrics Add lyrics   -
 

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