{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1749188,"song":"Pretty Boy Floyd","artist":"Woody Guthrie","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1749188-pretty-boy-floyd-chords-by-woody-guthrie/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1749188?type=chord","rating":4.70217,"votes":37,"content":"[tab]         [ch]E[/ch]                 [ch]E7[/ch]          [ch]A[/ch]            [ch]E[/ch]\r\nCome and gather 'round me, children, a story I will tell[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]B7[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]           [ch]B7[/ch]            [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAbout Pretty Boy Floyd, the outlaw, Oklahoma knew him well.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]       [ch]E[/ch]              [ch]E7[/ch]          [ch]A[/ch]             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nIt was in the town of Shawnee on a Saturday afternoon,[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]B7[/ch]                [ch]E[/ch]         [ch]B7[/ch]             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nHis wife beside him in the wagon, as into town they rode.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]                  [ch]E7[/ch]              [ch]A[/ch]             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThere a deputy sheriff approached him in a manner rather rude,[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]B7[/ch]               [ch]E[/ch]              [ch]B7[/ch]            [ch]E[/ch]\r\nUsing vulgar words of anger, and his wife, she overheard.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                    [ch]E7[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]                  [ch]E[/ch]\r\nPretty Boy grabbed a log chain; the deputy grabbed his gun,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]B7[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]           [ch]B7[/ch]               [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd in the fight that followed he laid that deputy down.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]                     [ch]E7[/ch]        [ch]A[/ch]              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThen he took to the trees and timber to live a life of shame,[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]B7[/ch]            [ch]E[/ch]        [ch]B7[/ch]           [ch]E[/ch]\r\nEvery crime in Oklahoma was added to his name.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]                 [ch]E7[/ch]      [ch]A[/ch]              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nYes, he took to the river bottom along the river shore,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]B7[/ch]                  [ch]E[/ch]          [ch]B7[/ch]             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd Pretty Boy found a welcome at every farmer's door.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                [ch]E7[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]                  [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThe papers said that Pretty Boy had robbed a bank each day,[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]B7[/ch]                [ch]E[/ch]                [ch]B7[/ch]             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWhile he was settling in some farmhouse, three hundred miles away.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]               [ch]E7[/ch]         [ch]A[/ch]              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThere's many a starving farmer the same old story told,[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]B7[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]            [ch]B7[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nHow the outlaw paid their mortgage and saved their little home.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]       [ch]E[/ch]                [ch]E7[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nOthers tell you 'bout a stranger that come to beg a meal,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]B7[/ch]              [ch]E[/ch]             [ch]B7[/ch]              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd underneath his napkin left a thousand-dollar bill.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]          [ch]E[/ch]        [ch]E7[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nIt was in Oklahoma City, it was on a Christmas Day,[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]B7[/ch]                [ch]E[/ch]         [ch]B7[/ch]             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThere came a whole carload of groceries with a note to say:[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/ch]               [ch]E7[/ch]          [ch]A[/ch]              [ch]E[/ch]\r\n‘You say that I'm an outlaw, you say that I'm a thief,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]B7[/ch]                  [ch]E[/ch]              [ch]B7[/ch]            [ch]E[/ch]\r\nHere's a Christmas dinner for the families on relief.'[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]                       [ch]E7[/ch]                [ch]A[/ch]             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nYes, as through this world I've rambled I've seen lots of funny men,[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]B7[/ch]              [ch]E[/ch]            [ch]B7[/ch]                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nSome will rob you with a six gun, and some with a fountain pen.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]       [ch]E[/ch]                        [ch]E7[/ch]          [ch]A[/ch]            [ch]E[/ch]\r\nBut as through your life you'll travel, wherever you may roam,[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]B7[/ch]            [ch]E[/ch]              [ch]B7[/ch]                [ch]E[/ch]\r\nYou won't never see no outlaw drive a family from their home.[/tab]","plain_text":"","chords":["E","E7","A","B7"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"B7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,1,3,0,4],"frets":[-1,2,1,2,0,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"E7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,0,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,0,1,0,0]}}}