Pretty Boy Floyd-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Pretty Boy Floyd] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:The Essential Collection Vol. 1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Pretty Boy Floyd - Woody Guthrie [00:08.28]If you'll gather round me children [00:10.39] [00:11.01]A story I will tell [00:12.83] [00:13.57]Bout Pretty Boy Floyd an outlaw [00:16.14]Oklahoma knew him well [00:17.92] [00:21.80]It was in the town of Shawnee [00:26.52]A Saturday afternoon [00:27.80] [00:29.38]His wife beside him in his wagon [00:32.45]As into town they rode [00:34.40] [00:38.19]There a deputy sheriff approached him [00:41.61] [00:42.19]In a manner rather rude [00:43.67] [00:45.88]Vulgar words of anger [00:47.40] [00:48.16]An his wife she overheard [00:49.60] [00:56.59]Pretty Boy grabbed a log chain [00:58.64]And the deputy grabbed his gun; [01:00.53] [01:01.20]In the fight that followed [01:03.35]He laid that deputy down [01:04.79] [01:07.62]Then he took to the trees and timber [01:12.58] [01:13.13]To live a life of shame; [01:14.99] [01:16.36]Every crime in Oklahoma [01:18.05] [01:19.12]Was added to his name [01:20.67] [01:25.64]But a many a starving farmer [01:28.62] [01:29.46]The same old story told [01:31.25] [01:32.85]How the outlaw paid their mortgage [01:34.93] [01:35.82]And saved their little homes [01:37.18] [01:41.04]Others tell you bout a stranger [01:43.14] [01:43.68]That come to beg a meal [01:45.54] [01:46.34]Underneath his napkin [01:47.58] [01:48.22]Left a thousand dollar bill [01:50.02] [01:56.89]It in was Oklahoma City [02:01.67] [02:03.25]It was on a Christmas Day [02:04.96] [02:06.76]There was a whole car load of groceries [02:09.12]Come with a note to say: [02:11.47] [02:13.59]Well you say that I'm an outlaw [02:15.99]You say that I'm a thief [02:17.89] [02:18.84]Here's a Christmas dinner [02:20.57]For the families on relief [02:22.22] [02:26.41]Yes as through this world I've wandered [02:31.04] [02:32.09]I've seen lots of funny men; [02:34.09] [02:35.66]Some will rob you with a six-gun [02:37.80] [02:38.36]And some with a fountain pen [02:40.17] [02:42.55]And as through your life you travel [02:46.14] [02:48.71]Yes as through your life you roam [02:50.84] [02:53.44]You won't never see an outlaw [02:55.61] [02:57.73]Drive a family from their home