Pretty Boy Floyd-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Pretty Boy Floyd] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:Dust Bowl Ballads] [offset:0] [00:00.98]Pretty Boy Floyd - Woody Guthrie [00:08.82]If you'll gather 'round me, children, [00:11.51]A story I will tell [00:12.94] [00:13.57]'Bout Pretty Boy Floyd, an outlaw, [00:15.69] [00:16.38]Oklahoma knew him well. [00:18.01] [00:21.82]It was in the town of Shawnee, [00:26.63]A Saturday afternoon, [00:28.19] [00:29.26]His wife beside him in his wagon [00:32.57]As into town they rode. [00:33.62] [00:38.00]There a deputy sheriff approached him [00:42.19]In a manner rather rude, [00:44.68] [00:45.50]Vulgar words of anger, [00:47.62]An' his wife she overheard. [00:50.06] [00:55.94]Pretty Boy grabbed a log chain, [00:58.18]And the deputy grabbed his gun; [00:59.87] [01:00.62]In the fight that followed [01:01.99]He laid that deputy down. [01:04.43] [01:06.93]Then he took to the trees and timber [01:12.52]To live a life of shame; [01:14.27] [01:15.39]Every crime in Oklahoma [01:18.33]Was added to his name. [01:20.02] [01:25.08]But a many a starving farmer [01:28.83]The same old story told [01:30.64] [01:31.96]How the outlaw paid their mortgage [01:33.79]And saved their little homes. [01:36.29] [01:40.23]Others tell you 'bout a stranger [01:42.23]That come to beg a meal, [01:45.42]Underneath his napkin [01:47.29]Left a thousand dollar bill. [01:48.92] [01:55.79]It in was Oklahoma City, [02:01.73] [02:02.23]It was on a Christmas Day, [02:04.54] [02:05.60]There was a whole car load of groceries [02:07.45]Come with a note to say: [02:09.69] [02:12.20]Well, you say that I'm an outlaw, [02:14.76]You say that I'm a thief. [02:16.32]Here's a Christmas dinner [02:19.70]For the families on relief. [02:21.38] [02:24.88]Yes, as through this world I've wandered [02:29.69] [02:30.32]I've seen lots of funny men; [02:32.88] [02:34.01]Some will rob you with a six-gun, [02:36.94]And some with a fountain pen. [02:38.82] [02:40.69]And as through your life you travel, [02:45.32] [02:46.82]Yes, as through your life you roam, [02:50.03] [02:52.34]You won't never see an outlaw [02:55.66] [02:56.78]Drive a family from their home.