[ti:pretty boy floyd]
[ar:the byrds]
[al:original singles a's & b's 1965 - 1971]
[offset:-100]
[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