Pretty Boy Floyd-Cisco Houston

[ti:Pretty Boy Floyd] [ar:Cisco Houston] [al:Cisco Houston Sings Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Pretty Boy Floyd - Cisco Houston [00:04.82]If you'll gather 'round me children [00:10.78]A story I will tell [00:12.32] [00:14.02]'Bout pretty boy Floyd an outlaw [00:17.81]Oklahoma knew him well [00:19.94] [00:22.95]It was in the town of Shawnee [00:27.29]A Saturday afternoon [00:29.31] [00:30.52]His wife beside him in his wagon [00:34.36]As into town they rode [00:37.43] [00:40.24]There a deputy sheriff approached him [00:44.60]In a manner rather rude [00:46.32] [00:48.01]Vulgar words of anger [00:49.79] [00:51.40]An' his wife she overheard [00:54.29] [00:56.78]Pretty boy grabbed a log chain [01:01.48]And the deputy grabbed his gun [01:03.39] [01:05.15]In the fight that followed [01:08.53]He laid that deputy down [01:11.38] [01:14.49]Then he took to the trees and timber [01:18.74]To live a life of shame [01:20.62] [01:22.29]Every crime in Oklahoma [01:26.10]Was added to his name [01:27.54] [01:30.03]Then he took to the trees and timber [01:34.27]On that Canadian River's shore [01:36.08] [01:37.86]And the outlaw found a welcome [01:41.47] [01:42.31]At many a farmer's door [01:45.00] [01:48.30]But a many a starving farmer [01:52.40]The same old story told [01:54.10] [01:55.84]How the outlaw paid their mortgage [01:57.96] [01:58.56]And saved their little homes [02:01.73] [02:02.69]Others tell you 'bout a stranger [02:06.91]That come to beg a meal [02:08.58] [02:10.48]Underneath his napkin [02:13.60]Left a thousand dollar bill [02:16.49] [02:18.59]It was in Oklahoma City [02:23.43]It was on a Christmas day [02:25.08] [02:26.62]There was a whole car load of groceries [02:30.11]Come with a note to say [02:32.93] [02:34.67]Well you say that I'm an outlaw [02:38.27]You say that I'm a thief [02:40.01] [02:41.32]Here's a Christmas dinner [02:44.21] [02:45.15]For the families on relief [02:48.53] [02:50.41]Yes as through this world I've wandered [02:55.59]I've seen lots of funny men [02:57.48] [02:59.22]Some will rob you with a six gun [03:02.61]And some with a fountain pen [03:05.43] [03:07.76]And as through your life you travel [03:12.96]Yes as through your life you roam [03:15.22] [03:16.39]You won't never see an outlaw [03:19.68]Drive a family from their home