Pretty Boy Floyd-The Byrds

[00:10.42]Well gather round me children [00:12.58]A story I will tell [00:14.61]About Pretty Boy Floyd, the outlaw [00:16.67]Homer knew him well [00:20.04]He was in the town of Shawnee on Saturday afternoon [00:23.84]His wife decided in a wagon and into town they rode [00:39.05]And along come a deputy sheriff [00:40.98]In a manner rather rude [00:43.07]Using vulgar words of language [00:45.35]His wife, she overheard [00:48.76]Then Pretty Boy Floyd grabbed a long chain [00:50.69]The deputy grabbed a gun [00:52.93]And in the fight that followed [00:54.87]He laid that deputy down [01:07.70]And he ran through the trees and bushes [01:09.63]He lived a life of shame [01:11.76]Every crime in oklahoma, was added to his name [01:17.19]He ran through trees and bushes [01:18.89]On the Canadian river shore [01:21.21]And many starving farmer opened up his door [01:35.85]Was in oklahoma city, it was on a Christmas Day [01:40.19]A car load of groceries with a letter that did say [01:45.67]You say that I'm an outlaw, you say that I'm a thief [01:49.94]Well, here's a Christmas dinner for the families on relief [02:04.83]As through this life you travel [02:06.87]You meet some funny men [02:09.10]Some will rob you with a six-gun [02:11.09]And some with a fountain pen [02:14.38]As through this life you ramble [02:16.35]As through this life you roam [02:18.44]You'll never see an outlaw [02:20.59]Take a family from your home