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Thread #47857   Message #715695
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
22-May-02 - 06:18 PM
Thread Name: Song Challenge! - Part 81 (We're Back!!)
Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 81 (We're Back!!)
Maybe it's not really unexpected with an outlaw ballad - it keeps on escaping. I've recaptured it once more, and this should be the end of it.

Come gather round me children, a story you will hear
how Pretty Boy Floyd he paid a call to Agent Provocateur.

It was in the City of London, where the rich and famous throng,
Liz Hurley in her safety pins, and Kate Moss in a thong.

And Pretty Boy came a-calling, and he left his calling card
Saying "I've stripped this place quite naked - I hope you won't take it hard".

And the police they told the papers, in a manner rather coarse,
"We've working on our photofits with the undercover force."

They pulled in the usual suspects, and they put them on parade,
in woolly drawers and G-strings, I am very much afraid.

But the evidence was scanty, and everyone agreed,
that even in the first place it was not a lot to see.

And Pretty Boy went on the run, but he couldn't sell the stuff,
So he had to wear it for himself - for a robber that's real tough.

And there's a poor old farmer woke one night, her's the story that he told
How Pretty Boy came a calling, in an outfit very bold.

"And he left this note behind him, and a parcel for the wife.
And I've not seen the like of it - mind I've led a sheltered life."

Well, as through the world I've rambled, I've seen funny men galore
But an outlaw dressed like Pretty Boy, I've not seen that before.

Yes, as through this world you ramble, and I don't think that I'm wrong,
You'll rarely see an outlaw in a G string and a thong.

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