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Pretty Boy Floyd

from Before the Ice Melts by Max Godfrey

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If you gather round me children,
A story I will tell,
Bout pretty boy Floyd the outlaw,
Oklahoma knew him well.

It was in the town of Shawnee,
It was a Saturday afternoon,
His wife beside him in his wagon,
As into town they rolled.

There a deputy sheriff approached him,
In a manner rather rude,
Using vulgar words of language,
Which his wife she overheard.

Pretty Boy grabbed a long chain and the
deputy grabbed his gun,
And in the fight that followed,
He laid that deputy down.

There’s a many a starving farmer,
The same old story told,
How this outlaw paid their mortgage
Saved their little home

Others tell you of a stranger
Who come to beg a meal
And underneath his napkin
Left a thousand dollar bill

Was in Oklahoma city
It was on a Christmas day
Come a whole cartload of groceries
With a letter that did say

You say that I’m an outlaw
You say that I’m a thief,
Well here’s your Christmas dinner
For the families on relief

Now as through his world I’ve rambled
I’ve seen lots of funny men,
Some will rob you with a six gun
Some with a fountain pen

But as through your life you travel
And through your life you roam
You will never see an outlaw
Drive a family from their home.

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from Before the Ice Melts, released January 23, 2017
Written by Woody Guthrie

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