Pretty Boy Floyd-Cisco Houston

[ti:Pretty Boy Floyd] [ar:Cisco Houston] [al:Best Of The Vanguard Years] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Pretty Boy Floyd - Cisco Houston [00:04.69]If you'll gather round me children [00:08.34] [00:10.38]A story I will tell [00:11.90] [00:13.77]About pretty boy Floyd an outlaw [00:15.64] [00:17.45]Oklahoma knew him well [00:18.86] [00:22.59]It was in the town of Shawnee [00:25.87] [00:26.92]On a Saturday afternoon [00:28.17] [00:30.05]His wife beside him in his wagon [00:31.91] [00:34.00]As into town they rode [00:35.21] [00:39.76]Then a deputy sheriff approached him [00:43.20] [00:44.02]In a manner rather rude [00:45.32] [00:47.48]Using vulgar words of language [00:49.07] [00:50.85]And his wife she overheard [00:52.22] [00:56.19]Then pretty boy grabbed a log chain [00:59.82] [01:00.94]And the deputy grabbed his gun [01:02.47] [01:04.50]And in the fight that followed [01:05.97] [01:07.85]He laid that deputy down [01:09.41] [01:13.68]Then he took to the trees and timbers [01:18.03]To live a life of shame [01:19.68] [01:21.54]Every crime in Oklahoma [01:23.02] [01:25.11]Was added to his name [01:26.47] [01:29.11]Yes he took to the trees and timbers [01:33.38]On that Canadian river's shore [01:34.99] [01:36.98]And the outlaw found a welcome [01:38.60] [01:41.37]At many a farmer's door [01:42.97] [01:47.30]There's a many a starving farmer [01:50.80] [01:51.43]This same old story told [01:52.84] [01:54.82]How the outlaw paid their mortgage [01:56.64] [01:57.53]And saved their little home [01:58.75] [02:01.56]Others tell you about a stranger [02:05.04] [02:05.85]That come to beg a meal [02:07.09] [02:09.35]And underneath his napkin [02:10.70] [02:12.46]Left a thousand dollar bill [02:13.87] [02:17.37]It was in Oklahoma city [02:21.46] [02:22.20]It was on a Christmas day [02:23.72] [02:25.36]There came a whole car load of groceries [02:27.20] [02:29.16]With a letter that did say [02:30.37] [02:33.15]Well you say that I'm an outlaw [02:36.27] [02:36.92]Well you say that I'm a thief [02:38.43] [02:39.91]Here's a Christmas dinner [02:40.94] [02:43.67]For the families on relief [02:45.53] [02:48.97]As through this world I ramble [02:52.60] [02:54.14]I see lots of funny men [02:55.88] [02:57.69]Some rob you with a six gun [02:59.37] [03:01.09]Some with a fountain pen [03:02.51] [03:06.16]But as through this life you travel [03:10.50] [03:11.35]As through your life you roam [03:13.09] [03:14.73]You will never see an outlaw [03:16.34] [03:18.09]Drive a family from their home