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Ramblin' Jack Elliott
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Come gather round me children, a story I will tell
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Of Pretty Boy Floyd, an outlaw, Oklahoma knew him well.
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Was in the town of Shawnee on a Saturday afternoon
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His wife beside him in the wagon as into town they rode.
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A deputy sheriff approached them in a manner rather rude
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Using vulgar words of language and his wife she overheard.
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Well, Pretty Boy grabbed a log chain, and the deputy grabbed a gun
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And in the fight that followed, he laid that deputy down.
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Then he took to the trees and rivers to lead a life of shame.
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Every crime in Oklahoma was added to his name.
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Yes he took to the trees and timbers on the Canadian river shore,
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And the outlaw found a welcome at many a farmer's door.
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Yes, there's many a starving farmer, the same story told
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How the outlaw paid their mortgage and saved their little home.
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Others tell about the stranger who came to beg a meal
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And underneath the napkin left a thousand dollar bill.
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It was in Oklahoma City, it was on a Christmas day
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Came a whole carload of groceries and a letter that did say,
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"Well, you say that I'm an outlaw, and 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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Well, as through the world I've rambled, I've seen lots of funny men,
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Some rob you with a sixgun, some with a fountain pen.
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As through this world you ramble, as through this world you roam,
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You'll never see an outlaw drive a family from its home.
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