The Ballad of Pretty Boy Floyd - guitar chords and comments

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Almost any prominent folk singer/group knows this song, and many have recorded it: Woodie Guthrie himself first, in 1945. The Ballad of Pretty Boy Floyd was written 5 years after the death of Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd (1904 – 1934), a notorious robber and murderer - claiming him to be a kind of "Robin Hood"- character, following in Jesse James' footprints. Maybe these rascals were kind and generous to a few poor people, but they were still hardcore criminals. Okey, Woody ... the song is among the best You wrote, and Your main point of view is shared by x millions up to this very day.

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come gather around 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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it was in the town of Shawnee • it was Saturday afternoon
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his wife beside him in his wagon as into town they rode