Pretty Boy Floyd-Ramblin' Jack Elliott

[ti:Pretty Boy Floyd] [ar:Ramblin' Jack Elliott] [al:100 Essential Classics - Very Best Of] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.38]Pretty Boy Floyd - Ramblin' Jack Elliott [00:02.07]Written by：Trad Guthrie [00:03.17] [00:09.56]If you'll gather 'round me children [00:14.85]A story I will tell [00:17.14] [00:18.89]'Bout Pretty Boy Floyd an outlaw [00:21.55] [00:22.59]Oklahoma knew him well [00:24.59] [00:28.10]It was in the town of Shawnee [00:32.29]A Saturday afternoon [00:34.26]His wife beside him in his wagon [00:36.26] [00:38.28]As into town they rode [00:40.13] [00:42.24]There a deputy sheriff approached him [00:45.22]In a manner rather rude [00:46.65] [00:48.10]He was in vulgar words of angry [00:51.77]An' his wife she overheard [00:53.71] [00:57.87]Pretty Boy grabbed a log chain [00:59.60]And the deputy grabbed his gun [01:02.20]In the fight that followed [01:05.74]He laid that deputy down [01:07.65] [01:12.83]He headed to the hills [01:14.96]Wood and lamb [01:15.84]R [01:15.97]To live a life of shame [01:17.72]Every crime in Oklahoma [01:20.50] [01:21.92]Was added to his name [01:23.83] [01:27.03]Now there a many a starvin' farmer [01:30.72]The same old story told [01:33.03] [01:33.74]How the outlaw paid their mortgage [01:37.85]And saved their little homes [01:39.53] [01:42.84]Others tell you 'bout a stranger [01:45.50]That come to beg a meal [01:47.25]Underneath his napkin [01:50.23] [01:50.83]Left a thousand dollar bill [01:53.10] [01:58.82]It was in Oklahoma City [02:02.19]It was on a Christmas Day [02:04.34] [02:05.48]There was a whole car load of groceries [02:09.54]And a letter that to say [02:11.47] [02:13.56]He said that I'm an outlaw [02:15.52]You say that I'm a thief [02:16.92] [02:17.45]Now here's a Christmas dinner [02:19.30]For the families on relief [02:21.47] [02:24.26]Now as through this world I've wandered [02:29.69]I've seen lots of funny men [02:31.54] [02:33.33]Some will rob you with a six gun [02:37.34]And some with a fountain pen [02:38.94] [02:41.78]And as through your life you travel [02:44.07]Yes as through your life you roam [02:45.71] [02:48.64]You won't never see an outlaw [02:51.96] [02:53.45]Drive a family from their home