Pretty Boy Floyd-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Pretty Boy Floyd] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:Greatest Folk Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Pretty Boy Floyd - Woody Guthrie [00:08.19]If you'll gather 'round me children [00:10.83]A story I will tell [00:13.24]'Bout Pretty Boy Floyd an outlaw [00:15.99]Oklahoma knew him well [00:19.03] [00:21.53]It was in the town of Shawnee [00:26.25]A Saturday afternoon [00:28.35] [00:28.98]His wife beside him in his wagon [00:31.97]As into town they rode [00:35.32] [00:37.68]There a deputy sheriff approached him [00:41.47]In a manner rather rude [00:43.51] [00:45.28]Vulgar words of anger [00:47.49]An' his wife she overheard [00:50.83] [00:55.89]Pretty Boy grabbed a log chain [00:57.77]And the deputy grabbed his gun; [00:59.64] [01:00.37]In the fight that followed [01:02.41]He laid that deputy down [01:05.37] [01:06.85]Then he took to the trees and timber [01:12.30]To live a life of shame; [01:14.31] [01:15.35]Every crime in Oklahoma [01:18.13]Was added to his name [01:21.43] [01:24.68]But a many a starving farmer [01:28.39]The same old story told [01:30.66] [01:31.72]How the outlaw paid their mortgage [01:34.40]And saved their little homes [01:37.25] [01:39.91]Others tell you 'bout a stranger [01:42.45]That come to beg a meal [01:45.08]Underneath his napkin [01:46.93]Left a thousand dollar bill [01:50.91] [01:55.69]It was in Oklahoma City [02:01.54]It was on a Christmas Day [02:04.42] [02:05.33]There was a whole car load of groceries [02:07.71]Come with a note to say: [02:11.14] [02:12.05]Well you say that I'm an outlaw [02:14.53]You say that I'm a thief [02:16.65] [02:17.19]Here's a Christmas dinner [02:18.83]For the families on relief [02:22.33] [02:24.73]Yes as through this world I've wandered [02:29.50] [02:30.26]I've seen lots of funny men; [02:33.07] [02:33.68]Some will rob you with a six-gun [02:36.56]And some with a fountain pen [02:39.43] [02:40.60]And as through your life you travel [02:45.00] [02:46.75]Yes as through your life you roam [02:49.58] [02:51.28]You won't never see an outlaw [02:54.57] [02:55.54]Drive a family from their home