if you ll gather round me children a story i will tell bout pretty boy floyd an outlaw oklahoma knew him well it was in the town of shawnee a saturday afternoon his wife beside him in his wagon as into town they rode there a deputy sheriff approached him in a manner rather rude vulgar words of anger and his wife she overheard pretty boy grabbed a log chain and the deputy grabbed his gun in the fight that followed he laid that deputy down yes he took to the trees and timber to live a life of shame every crime in oklahoma was added to his name but a many a starving farmer the same old story told how the outlaw paid their mortgage and saved their little homes others tell you bout a stranger that come to beg a meal underneath his napkin left a thousand dollar bill it was in oklahoma city it was on a christmas day there was a whole car load of groceries come with a note to say well you say that i m an outlaw you say that i m a thief here s a christmas dinner for the families on relief yes as through this world i ve wandered i ve seen lots of funny men some will rob you with a six gun and some with a fountain pen and as through your life you travel yes as through your life you roam you won t never see an outlaw drive a family from their home