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 [00:08.78]If you gather round the children [00:13.94]A story I will tell [00:16.22] [00:18.07]A Pretty Boy Floyd the outlaw [00:20.82] [00:21.75]Oklahoma knew him well [00:23.86] [00:27.26]It was in the town of Shawnee was Saturday afternoon [00:33.44]His wife beside him in wagon as into town they rode [00:39.40] [00:41.45]Her deputy sheriff approached in a manner rather rude [00:45.81] [00:47.24]Using vulgar words of language [00:50.99]His wife she overheard [00:53.09] [00:57.06]Pretty boy grabbed a long chain [00:59.05]And the deputy grabbed a gun [01:00.60] [01:01.35]And in the fight that followed [01:04.18] [01:04.87]He laid that deputy down [01:06.45] [01:12.03]He fly to the hill [01:13.97] [01:15.32]To live a life of shame [01:17.34]Every crimenal in Oklahoma was added to his name [01:23.31] [01:26.25]But a many a starving farmer [01:29.91]The same old story told [01:31.41] [01:32.91]How the outlaw paid their mortgage [01:37.01]Saved their little homes [01:38.62] [01:42.05]Others tell you about a stranger [01:44.48]That come to beg a meal [01:46.47]Underneath his napkin [01:49.24] [01:50.02]Left a thousand dollar bill [01:51.97] [01:57.98]It was in Oklahoma City [02:01.40]It was on a Christmas Day [02:03.06] [02:04.63]There was a whole carload of groceries [02:08.69]And a letter that did say [02:10.71] [02:12.64]You say that I'm an outlaw [02:14.63]You say that I'm a thief [02:16.10] [02:16.80]Here's a Christmas dinner for the families on relief [02:20.70] [02:23.40]As through this world I ramble [02:28.73]I've seen lots of funny men [02:30.77] [02:32.44]Some rob you with a six-gun [02:36.60]Some with a fountain pen [02:38.18] [02:40.93]And as through your life you travel [02:43.13]As through your life you roam [02:45.26] [02:47.87]You'll never see an outlaw [02:51.17] [02:52.60]Drive a family from their home