CHORUS
Ian & Sylvia (about 1964 - Northern Journey) this posting by Rick in Macon
Song starts with the chorus
CHORUS:
F G7
Four rode by,
F G7
Rode through here;
C F G7 C
Three Mclean boys and that wild Alex Hare.
F G7
They were armed,
F G7
All were armed,
C F G7 C
It was them. I'd have known them anywhere.
1ST VERSE:
C G7 F C
Oh Willie Palmer's stallion was no twenty dollar cayuse,
C G7 F C
And when the wild ones stole him he hightailed it into town
C G7 F C
Usher in those days was keeping order in the district
G7 F C
But before he'd ridden thirty miles the McLean boys shot him down
CHORUS
2ND VERSE:
C G7 F C
A shepherd known as Kelly saw the wild bunch as they passed
C G7 F C
They shot him with a rifle and took his watch and chain
C G7 F C
When the posse found them they were in the lonely cabin
C G7 F C
A hunger took their fight away and no one else was slain
CHORUS
3RD VERSE:
C G7 F C
They hung the boys in January eighteen eighty one,
C G7 F C
The first time in that province that they'd strung up brothers three;
C G7 F C
And the son killed nineteen Germans 'cross the seas back in seventeen
C G7 F C
One thing that's for damned sure they're a wild ass family
FINAL CHORUS
Rick in Macon (some say the last phrase is wise OLD family)
Ian & Sylvia (about 1964 - Northern Journey) this posting by Rick in Macon
Song starts with the chorus
CHORUS:
F G7
Four rode by,
F G7
Rode through here;
C F G7 C
Three Mclean boys and that wild Alex Hare.
F G7
They were armed,
F G7
All were armed,
C F G7 C
It was them. I'd have known them anywhere.
1ST VERSE:
C G7 F C
Oh Willie Palmer's stallion was no twenty dollar cayuse,
C G7 F C
And when the wild ones stole him he hightailed it into town
C G7 F C
Usher in those days was keeping order in the district
G7 F C
But before he'd ridden thirty miles the McLean boys shot him down
CHORUS
2ND VERSE:
C G7 F C
A shepherd known as Kelly saw the wild bunch as they passed
C G7 F C
They shot him with a rifle and took his watch and chain
C G7 F C
When the posse found them they were in the lonely cabin
C G7 F C
A hunger took their fight away and no one else was slain
CHORUS
3RD VERSE:
C G7 F C
They hung the boys in January eighteen eighty one,
C G7 F C
The first time in that province that they'd strung up brothers three;
C G7 F C
And the son killed nineteen Germans 'cross the seas back in seventeen
C G7 F C
One thing that's for damned sure they're a wild ass family
FINAL CHORUS
Rick in Macon (some say the last phrase is wise OLD family)
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