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Track 5: PRETTY BOY FLOYD This is a quite different song than the one of the same name by Woody Guthrie. Fredrickson learned this version from a tape by Bun Kinsey, of Dry Creek, Georgia. Now Pretty Boy was born in the Oklahoma hills Where the beautiful flowers grow wild He was christened Charles Arthur by parents so proud Who thanked God for their beautiful child. By the side of his cradle his mother would sing Never dreaming the sorrows he'd bring But a mother's heart is broke when a boy grows to man It's been ever true since time first began. Now Pretty Boy was 20 when he married his young wife She was only 16 summers old Then he went to work in a bakery shop out there But he drifted away from the fold. Left his young wife in Dixie in 1924 Went to Kansas to try to earn more Then he went to St. Louis got in bad company And wound up in a penitentiary. He served his time went to Ohio Killed a man and was sentenced again He didn't serve the time the Jury gave to him For he jumped from a fast-speeding train. Kansas City was the next he took it on the run Killed two brothers with his careless gun He killed Mr. Byrd and a man named Wilson And he left Kansas City on the run. Ohio again, he killed Mr. Ches Stewart Spreading fear all along his crooked path Then he went back home got into another row Killed the sheriff who stirred up his wrath. 'Twas the last trip to Ohio for that wicked fool He was shot dead 8 miles to Liverpool Pretty Boy will learn on that great Judgement Day That a life filled with crime does not pay. |
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