Pretty Boy Floyd-Jack Elliott

[ti:Pretty Boy Floyd] [ar:Jack Elliott] [al:The Musical Grandfather & Father Of Bob Dylan (Digitally Remastered)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Pretty Boy Floyd - Jack Elliott [00:03.23]If you gather round the children [00:08.56]A story I will tell [00:11.01] [00:12.64]A Pretty Boy Floyd the outlaw [00:15.71]Oklahoma knew him well [00:17.82] [00:20.16]It was in the town of Shawnee was Saturday afternoon [00:27.20] [00:28.98]His wife beside him in wagon as into town they rode [00:34.91] [00:37.08]Her deputy sheriff approached in a manner rather rude [00:42.08] [00:43.34]Using vulgar words of language [00:46.77]His wife she overheard [00:48.57] [00:51.91]Pretty boy grabbed a long chain and the deputy grabbed a gun [00:55.15] [00:55.75]And in the fight that followed he laid that deputy down [00:59.30] [01:02.34]He fly to the hill [01:04.67] [01:06.29]To live a life of shame [01:08.00] [01:10.19]Every crimenal in Oklahoma was added to his name [01:15.49] [01:17.91]But a many a starving farmer [01:22.44] [01:23.22]The same old story told [01:25.15] [01:26.04]How the outlaw paid their mortgage [01:28.72] [01:29.94]Saved their little homes [01:31.73] [01:34.29]Others tell you about a stranger [01:36.41]That come to beg a meal [01:38.38]Underneath his napkin [01:41.06]Left a thousand dollar bill [01:42.96] [01:46.34]It was in Oklahoma City [01:51.12]It was on a Christmas Day [01:53.04] [01:54.41]There was a whole carload of groceries [01:57.31] [01:58.12]And a letter that did say [02:00.16] [02:02.93]You say that I'm an outlaw [02:04.89]You say that I'm a thief [02:06.91]Here's a Christmas dinner for the families on relief [02:10.45] [02:14.00]As through this world I ramble [02:19.15]I've seen lots of funny men [02:21.02] [02:22.83]Some rob you with a six-gun [02:25.81] [02:26.71]Some with a fountain pen [02:28.33] [02:30.98]And as through your life you travel [02:32.99]As through your life you roam [02:34.63] [02:36.42]You'll never see an outlaw [02:39.05] [02:39.89]Drive a family from their home