Subject: Pretty Boy Floyd: lyrics From: burnley@valu-line.net Date: 13 Feb 98 - 06:42 PM We have a library patron seeking lyrics to an old song.....Pretty Boy Floyd....not the Woody Guthrie version, however......does this ring any bells? Some sketchy lyrics.... Now boys, a vest of steel I'm wearing, made out of little steel wires. To keep all those bullets away from my heart, because my heart is precious to me. I have a sweet wife and a baby, who is waiting for me back home. I want to go back to see them, but the cops won't leave me alone. Any help will be great!!! Burnley Library Cottonwood Falls, KS mailto:burnley@valu-line.net |
Subject: RE: Pretty Boy Floyd: lyrics From: Gene Date: 04 Dec 98 - 06:18 PM *CHECK DATABASE* The lyrics and a MIDI are there... |
Subject: RE: Pretty Boy Floyd: lyrics From: Gene Date: 04 Dec 98 - 06:20 PM Sorry 'bout that....eyes not working too good today! |
Subject: RE: Pretty Boy Floyd lyrics From: Felipa Date: 19 Dec 99 - 06:07 PM This song has a Christmas reference, so I like to sing it around this time of year. I was wondering how romanticized the song might be so, I've just been looking for info. on the web. Here's a couple of interesting sites: Carnegie Library on Floyd lyrics and info. I also see that Larry McMurty wrote a book on Pretty Boy |
Subject: RE: Pretty Boy Floyd: lyrics From: Sourdough Date: 19 Dec 99 - 06:14 PM THe two links, "Carnegie Library on Floyd" and "lyrics and info" bring up "URL not found" messages. Sourdough |
Subject: RE: Pretty Boy Floyd: lyrics From: Felipa Date: 21 Dec 99 - 10:01 AM because I forgot to type in 'http' http://www.carnegie.lib.oh.us/personal.htm lyrics and info (http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/3448/pretty.html - one of Manfred Helfert's pages on Woody Guthrie, Doc & Merle Watson, & the Almanac sSngers) |
Subject: RE: Pretty Boy Floyd: lyrics From: GUEST,micheleantonio@netzero.net Date: 15 Jun 00 - 07:18 PM Need information on a song. It was around during the late sixties or early seventies. I believe it began with a pianio riff and may have been sung in a falsetto voice. It contained the line: "...he was my Pretty Boy Floyd the outlaw and I thought I knew him well." Any help would be greatly appreciated. |
Subject: RE: Pretty Boy Floyd: lyrics From: Susan of DT Date: 15 Jun 00 - 07:21 PM Guest - that one is in the digital tradition right here. Try Floyd in the big blue search box |
Subject: RE: Pretty Boy Floyd: lyrics From: GUEST,micheleantonio@netzero.net Date: 15 Jun 00 - 07:39 PM Thank you, Susan, but I should have mentioned that it is NOT the Woody Guthrie song. I tried a search and came up empty. Do you know the song I mean? |
Subject: Lyr Add: AVENGING ANNIE From: Jeri Date: 15 Jun 00 - 08:16 PM Michele, is it the one that goes:
We ran throught the hills and forests
Long after that great summer
Well they call me Avenging Annie
I take all you spoiled young hippies
But then I met my sensitive outlaw
He treat me worse than I ever imagined
Well I told my friends about him
Well I felt so sad about him
And now I live out on a mountaintop
And I might go back to my Floyd Well, they call me Avenging Annie...
Lyrics by Andy Pratt |
Subject: RE: Pretty Boy Floyd: lyrics From: Jeri Date: 15 Jun 00 - 08:17 PM Oops - the song title is "Avenging Annie." |
Subject: RE: Pretty Boy Floyd: lyrics From: GUEST,micheleantonio@netzero.net Date: 15 Jun 00 - 10:18 PM YES!!THANK YOU, Jeri THANK YOU!!!! It was driving me crazy. |
Subject: RE: Pretty Boy Floyd: lyrics From: GUEST,micheleantonio@netzero.net Date: 15 Jun 00 - 10:47 PM ....and again, thank you, Jeri. I'm absolutely thrilled to find it, and another fan. I thought I'd never hear it again. But thanks to you (and Napster) I'm a happy man. And you're a GIANT sweetheart!! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pretty Boy Floyd (not Guthrie) From: Joe Offer Date: 04 Dec 23 - 11:25 AM needs cleanup |
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