Pretty Boy Floyd-Woody Guthrie/The Almanac Singers

[ti:Pretty Boy Floyd] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:The Essential Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Pretty Boy Floyd - Woody Guthrie/The Almanac Singers [00:08.36]If you'll gather 'round me children [00:11.21]A story I will tell [00:13.58]'Bout Pretty Boy Floyd an outlaw [00:15.64]Oklahoma knew him well [00:19.76] [00:22.03]It was in the town of Shawnee [00:26.50]A Saturday afternoon [00:28.77] [00:29.55]His wife beside him in his wagon [00:32.57]As into town they rode [00:35.91] [00:38.32]There a deputy sheriff approached him [00:42.26]In a manner rather rude [00:44.17] [00:46.00]Vulgar words of anger [00:48.03]An' his wife she overheard [00:51.46] [00:56.68]Pretty Boy grabbed a log chain [00:58.72]And the deputy grabbed his gun [01:01.27]In the fight that followed [01:03.44]He laid that deputy down [01:06.39] [01:07.75]Then he took to the trees and timber [01:13.22]To live a life of shame [01:15.38] [01:16.50]Every crime in Oklahoma [01:19.19]Was added to his name [01:22.35] [01:25.80]But a many a starving farmer [01:29.63]The same old story told [01:31.88] [01:32.99]How the outlaw paid their mortgage [01:35.68]And saved their little homes [01:38.39] [01:41.25]Others tell you 'bout a stranger [01:43.82]That come to beg a meal [01:46.53]Underneath his napkin [01:48.39]Left a thousand dollar bill [01:52.33] [01:57.15]It was in Oklahoma City [02:03.28]It was on a Christmas Day [02:06.29] [02:07.07]There was a whole car load of groceries [02:09.33]Come with a note to say [02:12.84] [02:13.81]Well you say that I'm an outlaw [02:16.28]You say that I'm a thief [02:18.27] [02:19.03]Here's a Christmas dinner [02:20.78]For the families on relief [02:24.05] [02:26.69]Yes as through this world I've wandered [02:31.41] [02:32.20]I've seen lots of funny men [02:34.44] [02:35.81]Some will rob you with a six-gun [02:38.61]And some with a fountain pen [02:41.31] [02:42.79]And as through your life you travel [02:47.20] [02:48.98]Yes as through your life you roam [02:51.74] [02:53.61]You won't never see an outlaw [02:57.04] [02:57.96]Drive a family from their home