This story is supposed to be true, and a friend of mine says he met a descendant of the "wild old family" FOUR RODE BY (by Ian Tyson) Willie Palmer's stallion was no twenty dollar cayuse And when the wild ones stole him he hightailed it into town Ussher in those days was keeping order in the district But before he'd ridden thirty miles the McLean boys shot him down chorus: Four rode by Rode through here Three Mclean boys and that wild Alex Hare They were armed All were armed It was them I'd have known them anywhere A shepherd known as Kelly saw the wild one as they passed They shot him with a rifle and took his watch and chain When the posse found him in the lonely cabin A hunger took their pride away and no one else was slain Chorus They hung the boys in January 1883 First time in that province that they'd strung up brothers three And their sons killed 19 Germans cross the seas back in '17 One thing that's for damned sure they're a wild old family
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