Lyrics Pretty Boy Floyd.lrc The Byrds
[id: utbbyzjl]
[ar: The Byrds]
[al: Sweetheart of the Rodeo]
[ti: Pretty Boy Floyd]
[length: 02:34]
[00:10.06]Well gather ’round me children
[00:13.08]A story I will tell
[00:14.26]About Pretty Boy Floyd, the outlaw
[00:16.19]Oklahoma knew him well
[00:19.67]It was in the town of Shawnee
[00:21.55]On a Saturday afternoon
[00:23.88]His wife beside him in a wagon
[00:25.94]As into town they rode
[00:29.49]
[00:38.82]And along come a deputy sheriff
[00:40.82]In a manner rather rude
[00:42.78]Using vulgar words of language
[00:45.07]His wife, she overheard
[00:48.64]And Pretty Boy grabbed a long chain
[00:50.66]The deputy grabbed a gun
[00:52.75]And in the fight that followed
[00:54.64]He laid that deputy down
[00:58.04]
[01:07.51]Then he ran through the trees and bushes
[01:09.46]And lived a life of shame
[01:11.51]Every crime in Oklahoma
[01:13.47]Was added to his name
[01:17.13]He ran through the trees and bushes
[01:19.08]On the Canadian River shore
[01:21.11]And many a-starving farmer
[01:23.24]Opened up his door
[01:26.79]
[01:35.92]It was in Oklahoma City
[01:37.71]It was on a Christmas day
[01:40.06]A whole carload of groceries
[01:42.16]With a letter that did say
[01:45.75]”You say that I’m an outlaw
[01:47.51]You say that I’m a thief
[01:49.67]Well, here’s a Christmas dinner
[01:51.72]For the families on relief”
[01:55.39]
[02:04.89]As through this life you travel
[02:06.93]You’ll meet some funny men
[02:08.72]Some’ll rob you with a six-gun
[02:11.07]And some with a fountain pen
[02:14.69]As through this life you ramble
[02:16.20]As through this life you roam
[02:18.51]You’ll never see an outlaw
[02:20.62]Take a family from their home
[02:22.12]Year of Release: 1968