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Dave Fredrickson
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Now pretty boy was born in the Oklahoma hills
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Where the beautiful flowers grow wild
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He was christened Charles Arthur by parents so proud
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Who thanked God for their beautiful child
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By the side of his cradle his mother would sing
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Never dreaming the sorrows he'd bring
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But a mother's heart is broke when a boy grows to man
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It's been ever true since time first began
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Now pretty boy was 20 when he married his young wife
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She was only 16 summers old
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Then he went to work in a bakery shop out there
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But he drifted away from the fold
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Left his young wife in Dixie in 1924
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Went to Kansas to try to earn more
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Then he went to St. Louis got in bad company
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And wound up in a penitentiary
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He served his time went to Ohio
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Killed a man and was sentenced again
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He didn't serve the time the jury gave to him
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For he jumped from a fast speeding train
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Kansas City was the next he took it on the run
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Killed two brothers with his careless gun
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He killed Mr. Byrd and a man named Wilson
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And he left Kansas City on the run
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Ohio again, he killed Mr. Ches Stewart
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Spreading fear all along his crooked path
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Then he went back home got into another row
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Killed the sheriff who stirred up his wrath
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It was the last trip to Ohio for that wicked fool
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He was shot dead 8 miles to Liverpool
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Pretty boy will learn on that great Judgment Day
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That a life filled with crime does not pay
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