Pretty Boy Floyd

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E E7 A E
Come and gather 'round me, children, a story I will tell
B7 E B7 E
About Pretty Boy Floyd, the outlaw, Oklahoma knew him well.
E E7 A E
It was in the town of Shawnee on a Saturday afternoon,
B7 E B7 E
His wife beside him in the wagon, as into town they rode.
E E7 A E
There a deputy sheriff approached him in a manner rather rude,
B7 E B7 E
Using vulgar words of anger, and his wife, she overheard.
E E7 A E
Pretty Boy grabbed a log chain; the deputy grabbed his gun,
B7 E B7 E
And in the fight that followed he laid that deputy down.
E E7 A E
Then he took to the trees and timber to live a life of shame,
B7 E B7 E
Every crime in Oklahoma was added to his name.
E E7 A E
Yes, he took to the river bottom along the river shore,
B7 E B7 E
And Pretty Boy found a welcome at every farmer's door.
E E7 A E
The papers said that Pretty Boy had robbed a bank each day,
B7 E B7 E
While he was settling in some farmhouse, three hundred miles away.
E E7 A E
There's many a starving farmer the same old story told,
B7 E B7 E
How the outlaw paid their mortgage and saved their little home.
E E7 A E
Others tell you 'bout a stranger that come to beg a meal,
B7 E B7 E
And underneath his napkin left a thousand-dollar bill.
E E7 A E
It was in Oklahoma City, it was on a Christmas Day,
B7 E B7 E
There came a whole carload of groceries with a note to say:
E E7 A E
‘You say that I'm an outlaw, you say that I'm a thief,
B7 E B7 E
Here's a Christmas dinner for the families on relief.'
E E7 A E
Yes, as through this world I've rambled I've seen lots of funny men,
B7 E B7 E
Some will rob you with a six gun, and some with a fountain pen.
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But as through your life you'll travel, wherever you may roam,
B7 E B7 E
You won't never see no outlaw drive a family from their home.

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