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From: rickl1@IX.netcom.com (Rick L)
Subject: CRD:   Pretty Boy Floyd         The Byrds            Chords/Lyrics
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 03:12:16 GMT

The Byrds     Pretty Boy Floyd   written by Woody Guthrie

G                             C            G
Well gather round children, a story I will tell
       D                      G        C             G
About Pretty Boy Floyd the outlaw, Oklahoma knew him well
G                               C              G
Was in the town of Shawnee on a Saturday afternoon
    D                    G        C              G
His wife beside him in a wagon as into town they rode

fiddle break

G                                    C              G
And along come a deputy sheriff in a manner rather rude
      D               G                C            G
Using vulgar words of language and his wife she overheard
G
And Pretty Boy grabbed a long chain,
        C                G
And the deputy grabbed a gun
    D                  G           C                G
And in the fight that followed, he laid that deputy down

banjo break

G
Then he ran through the trees and bushes
    C               G
And lived a life of shame
      D            G        C            G
Every crime in Oklahoma was added to his name
G                                      C              G
He ran through trees and bushes on the Canadian River shore
    D               G       C            G
And many a starving farmer opened up his door

fiddle break

G                               C              G
It was in Oklahoma City, It was on a Christmas Day
  D                 G              C               G
A whole carload of groceries and a letter that did say
G                                    C              G
Well you say that I'm an outlaw, you say that I'm a thief
      D                  G              C           G
Well, here's a Christmas dinner for the families on relief

mandolin break

G                                    C               G
As through this life you travel, you meet some funny men
     D              G             C               G
Some rob you with a six-gun, some with a fountain pen
G                                   C                     G
As through this life you ramble, as through this life you roam
       D            G             C                 G
You'll never see an outlaw take a family from their home

  From The Byrds "Sweetheart Of The Rodeo"
  Columbia Records 1968


The Byrds albums
1973 The Byrds
1971 Farther Along
1971 Byrdmaniax
1970 Untitled
1969 Ballad of Easy Rider
1969 Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde
1968 Sweetheart of the Rodeo
1968 The Notorious Byrd Brothers
1967 Younger Than Yesterday
1966 Fifth Dimension
1965 Turn! Turn! Turn!
1965 Mr. Tambourine Man
Sweetheart of the Rodeo tabs
02I Am a Pilgrim tabbass tab
03The Christian Life tabbass tab
04You Don't Miss Your Water tabbass tab
06Pretty Boy Floyd tabbass tab
07Hickory Wind tabbass tab
11Nothing Was Delivered tabbass tab

 

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