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    If you'll gather 'ro…..und me, children, a story I will tell,
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    'bout Pretty Boy Floyd, an outlaw, Oklahoma knew him well.

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    It was in the to……wn of Shawnee, it was Saturday afternoon,
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    his wife beside him in his wagon as into town they rode.

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    There a deputy sher…iff approached him in a manner rather rude,
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    using vulgar words of language, an' his wife she overheard.

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    Pretty Boy grabbed a log chain, and the deputy grabbed his gun,
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    in the fight that followed he laid that deputy down.

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    Then he took to the trees and timber to live a life of shame,
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    every crime in Oklahoma was added to his name.

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    But there’s many a sta….rving farmer, the same old story told,
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    how this outlaw paid their mortgage and saved their little homes.

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   Others tell you o……f a stranger that comes to beg a meal,
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    and underneath his napkin left a thousand dollar bill.

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    It was in Oklaho……ma City, it was on a Christmas Day,
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    there come a whole car load of groceries with a letter that did say:

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    “Well, you say that I'm an outlaw, you say that I'm a thief,
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    here's a Christmas dinner for the families on relief."

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    Now, as through this wo…….rld I ramble, I see lots of funny men,
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    some will rob you with a six-gun, some with a fountain pen.

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    But as through your life you travel, and as through your life you roam,
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    you will never see an outlaw drive a family from their home.