Pretty Boy Floyd-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Pretty Boy Floyd] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:Backup the Best of Woody Guthrie] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Pretty Boy Floyd - Woody Guthrie [00:02.51]If you'll gather 'round me children [00:05.94] [00:07.11]A story I will tell [00:08.82] [00:10.36]'Bout Pretty Boy Floyd an outlaw [00:12.14] [00:13.70]Oklahoma knew him well [00:15.30] [00:17.66]It was in the town of Shawnee [00:21.42] [00:23.34]Yes it's a Saturday afternoon [00:24.95] [00:27.06]His wife beside him in his wagon [00:29.13] [00:30.40]As into town they rode [00:31.87] [00:35.77]There a deputy sheriff approached him [00:39.31] [00:41.09]In a manner rather rude [00:43.76] [00:45.30]Vulgar words of anger [00:47.30] [00:49.15]An' his wife she overheard [00:51.38] [00:54.25]Pretty Boy grabbed a log chain [00:56.12]And the deputy grabbed his gun; [00:57.97]In the fight that followed [00:59.76]He laid that deputy down [01:00.93] [01:05.95]But a many a starving farmer [01:10.52] [01:13.00]The same old story told [01:14.63] [01:16.83]How the outlaw paid their mortgage [01:18.83] [01:20.91]And saved their little homes [01:22.39] [01:27.01]Others tell you 'bout a stranger [01:32.52] [01:33.67]That come to beg a meal [01:35.69] [01:38.78]Underneath his napkin [01:39.99] [01:42.13]Left a thousand dollar bill [01:43.60] [01:47.49]It in was Oklahoma City [01:53.20] [01:55.06]It was on a Christmas Day [01:56.81] [01:58.67]There was a whole car load of groceries [02:00.90] [02:02.65]Come with a note to say: [02:04.26] [02:07.24]Well you say that I'm an outlaw [02:09.40]You say that I'm a thief [02:10.77] [02:11.50]Here's a Christmas dinner [02:13.03]For the families on relief [02:14.27] [02:19.31]Yes as through this world I've wandered [02:24.81] [02:26.73]I've seen lots of funny men; [02:28.51] [02:30.38]Some will rob you with a six-gun [02:32.50] [02:34.58]And some with a fountain pen [02:36.02] [02:38.88]And as through your life you travel [02:43.43] [02:45.18]And as through your life you roam [02:47.34] [02:50.04]You won't never see an outlaw [02:51.73] [02:55.51]Drive a family from their home