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Composer: Woody Guthrie

Kinky Friedman - Pretty Boy Floyd lyrics



(Woody Guthrie)

Gather round me children, a story I will tell
About Pretty Boy Floyd, the outlaw, Oklahoma knew him well.

‘Twas in the town of Shawnee on a Saturday afternoon
With his wife beside him in a wagon it was into town they rode.

Well, a deputy sheriff called him in a manner rather rude
Using vulgar words of language and his wife she overheard.

Well, Pretty Boy grabbed a log chain, the deputy grabbed his gun
And in the fight that followed, he laid that deputy down.

He took to the woods and timbers, he lived a life of shame,
Every crime in Oklahoma they laid on to his name.

He took to the river boaters long the North Canadian river shore
And many a starving farmer he opened up his door.

They tell about a stranger, the same story goes
How Pretty Boy paid their mortgage and he saved their little home.

Others tell about a stranger who came to beg a meal
And underneath his napkin, he left a thousand dollar bill.

Into Oklahoma City, it was on a Christmas day
Come a whole wagonload full of groceries and a note on which did say:

“You say that I'm an outlaw, you say that I'm a thief,
Well, here's a Christmas dinner for your families on relief.”

Through this world I've rambled, I've seen many funny men,
Some will rob you with a six-gun and some with a fountain pen.

But as through your lives you travel, boys, as through your lives you roam
You won't never see no outlaw drive a family from their home.
Songs list of album: From One Good American to Another (1995)
         Title Rating
01    The Chappaqua Sessions, 1979/Rock & Roll Across the USA lyrics Add lyrics   -
02    Shield of Abraham lyrics Add lyrics   -
03   The Boogie Man lyrics   -
04    "Lights Out" Radio Show, Early 80's/Ramblin' Boy lyrics Add lyrics   -
05    Old Step lyrics Add lyrics   -
06   Pretty Boy Floyd lyrics   -
07    The Ballad of Ira Hayes lyrics Add lyrics   -
08   Hobo's Lullaby lyrics   -
09    Electric Ladyland Studio, NYC, 1974/Amelia Earhart's Last Flight lyrics Add lyrics   -
10   Rapid City, South Dakota lyrics   -
11    They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore lyrics Add lyrics   -
12    Cherokee Shuffle lyrics Add lyrics   -
13   Miss Nickelodeon lyrics   -
14    Somethin's Wrong With the Beaver lyrics Add lyrics   -
15   Lover Please lyrics   -
16    Mama, Baby, Mama Let Me Jump in Your Pajamas lyrics Add lyrics   -
17    Carrying the Torch lyrics Add lyrics   -
18   Father Let Thy Blessings lyrics   -
19    Ride 'Em Jewboy lyrics Add lyrics   -
20    Country Blue Playboy Cable, 1985/God Bless John Wayne [People Who Read] lyrics Add lyrics   -
 

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