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Thread #349   Message #878
Posted By: Nathan Sarvis
24-Dec-96 - 10:28 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Dead or Alive (Woody Guthrie)
Subject: Lyr Add: DEAD OR ALIVE (Woody Guthrie)
The title is "Dead or Alive." I have it in "The (Nearly) Complete Collection of Woody Guthrie Folksongs" published by Ludlow Music, 1963. The lyrics are as follows:

  Well, the new sheriff wrote me a letter 
  Well, the new sheriff wrote me a letter
  Come up and see me, dead or alive,
  Come up and see me, dead or alive.
  Chorus: Dead or alive, it's a hard road;
          Dead or alive, it's a hard road;
          Dead or alive.
  
  Additional verses continue pattern:
  Well he even sent my picture
  Well, he said he would pay expenses.
  Well, he said he would clothe and feed me,
  Well, I'm sorry I cant come, sheriff,
  I don't like your hard rock hotel;  I gotta go and see my sweet thing