Pretty Boy Floyd-Woody Guthrie/Pete Seeger

[ti:Pretty Boy Floyd] [ar:Woody Guthrie/Pete Seeger] [al:The First Rays of Protest in the Twentieth Century, Vol. 1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Pretty Boy Floyd - Woody Guthrie/Pete Seeger [00:04.22]Written by：Guthrie [00:08.44]If you'll gather 'round me children [00:10.98]A story I will tell [00:13.55]'Bout Pretty Boy Floyd an outlaw [00:15.93]Oklahoma knew him well [00:19.56] [00:21.90]It was in the town of Shawnee [00:26.22]A Saturday afternoon [00:29.23]His wife beside him in his wagon [00:32.32]As into town they rode [00:35.94] [00:38.00]There a deputy sheriff approached him [00:41.61]In a manner rather rude [00:44.10] [00:45.65]Vulgar words of anger [00:47.44]An' his wife she overheard [00:51.38] [00:56.26]Pretty Boy grabbed a log chain [00:57.97]And the deputy grabbed his gun [01:00.57]In the fight that followed [01:02.65]He laid that deputy down [01:06.34] [01:06.95]Then he took to the trees and timber [01:12.34]To live a life of shame [01:15.12] [01:15.66]Every crime in Oklahoma [01:18.32]Was added to his name [01:22.10] [01:25.00]But a many a starvin' farmer [01:28.77]The same old story told [01:31.20] [01:32.10]How the outlaw paid their mortgage [01:34.67]And saved their little homes [01:38.44] [01:40.25]Others tell you 'bout a stranger [01:42.78]That come to beg a meal [01:45.31]Underneath his napkin [01:47.14]Left a thousand-dollar bill [01:52.07] [01:55.99]It was in Oklahoma City [02:01.85]It was on a Christmas Day [02:04.78] [02:05.34]There was a whole car load of groceries [02:08.03]Come with a note to say [02:11.53] [02:12.22]Well you say that I'm an outlaw [02:14.67]You say that I'm a thief [02:16.96] [02:17.59]Here's a Christmas dinner [02:19.10]For the families on relief [02:22.95] [02:25.10]Yes as through this world I've wandered [02:30.54]I've seen lots of funny men [02:33.41] [02:34.00]Some will rob you with a six-gun [02:36.65]And some with a fountain pen [02:39.23] [02:40.90]And as through your life you travel [02:45.39] [02:47.05]Yes as through your life you roam [02:50.14] [02:51.58]You won't never see an outlaw [02:55.25] [02:55.83]Drive a family from their home