Lyr Req: Pretty Boy Floyd (not Guthrie)

13 Feb 98 - 06:42 PM (#21393)
Subject: Pretty Boy Floyd: lyrics
From: [e-mail]

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:[e-mail]

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04 Dec 98 - 06:18 PM (#48027)
Subject: RE: Pretty Boy Floyd: lyrics
From: Gene

*CHECK DATABASE*

The lyrics and a MIDI are there...

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04 Dec 98 - 06:20 PM (#48029)
Subject: RE: Pretty Boy Floyd: lyrics
From: Gene

Sorry 'bout that....eyes not working too good today!

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19 Dec 99 - 06:07 PM (#151628)
Subject: RE: Pretty Boy Floyd lyrics
From: Felipa

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

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19 Dec 99 - 06:14 PM (#151630)
Subject: RE: Pretty Boy Floyd: lyrics
From: Sourdough

THe two links, "Carnegie Library on Floyd" and "lyrics and info" bring up "URL not found" messages.

Sourdough

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21 Dec 99 - 10:01 AM (#152393)
Subject: RE: Pretty Boy Floyd: lyrics
From: Felipa

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)

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15 Jun 00 - 07:18 PM (#243108)
Subject: RE: Pretty Boy Floyd: lyrics
From: GUEST,[e-mail]

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.

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15 Jun 00 - 07:21 PM (#243110)
Subject: RE: Pretty Boy Floyd: lyrics
From: Susan of DT

Guest - that one is in the digital tradition right here. Try Floyd in the big blue search box

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15 Jun 00 - 07:39 PM (#243117)
Subject: RE: Pretty Boy Floyd: lyrics
From: GUEST,[e-mail]

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?

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15 Jun 00 - 08:16 PM (#243134)
Subject: Lyr Add: AVENGING ANNIE
From: Jeri

Michele, is it the one that goes:

We ran throught the hills and forests
As two under a spell
He was a city boy Floyd the outlaw
But I thought I knew him well

Long after that great summer
When I first came into my fame
And "the Avenger from Oklahoma"
Was added to my name, the Avenger I became

Well they call me Avenging Annie
I'm the Avenger of womanhood
I spend my whole life tellin' lies
Lead you on and mess you over good.

I take all you spoiled young hippies
Runnin' round playin' games
Mess around in your bed I blow your head
I put you through a change
What you done to others I do to you

But then I met my sensitive outlaw
He was the best thing I had ever seen
I wanna be his wife wanna give him my life
I was so blind I could never have seen
So I joined up with my outlaw, and headed for California

He treat me worse than I ever imagined
He even say he don't want me around
Kept it up so long I couldn't be strong
He run me right into the ground
For five long years, he pick me up and then he slap me down

Well I told my friends about him
The all were on my side
When I could see throught the haze he looked so crazy
I put my head right down and I cried
For my poor lover, cried like a mother for my poor lover

Well I felt so sad about him
But I knew I couldn't do him no good
He was so far gone well standing on the lawn
When I left him I knew I should
I knew I couldn't do him no good

And now I live out on a mountaintop
And I'm almost thirty-five
And I found my peace and I found my release
And I'm happy just to be alive

And I might go back to my Floyd
If I think it's the thing to do
He gave up murder and theft right after I left
And you know I still love him too
Just like your woman loves you
Just like your woman loves you...

Well, they call me Avenging Annie...

Lyrics by Andy Pratt
(c) 1973, April Hill Music

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15 Jun 00 - 08:17 PM (#243136)
Subject: RE: Pretty Boy Floyd: lyrics
From: Jeri

Oops - the song title is "Avenging Annie."

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15 Jun 00 - 10:18 PM (#243187)
Subject: RE: Pretty Boy Floyd: lyrics
From: GUEST,[e-mail]

YES!!THANK YOU, Jeri THANK YOU!!!! It was driving me crazy.

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15 Jun 00 - 10:47 PM (#243193)
Subject: RE: Pretty Boy Floyd: lyrics
From: GUEST,[e-mail]

....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!!

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04 Dec 23 - 11:25 AM (#4192902)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pretty Boy Floyd (not Guthrie)
From: Joe Offer

needs cleanup

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