CHORUS Ian & Sylvia (about 1964 - Northern Journey) this posting by Rick in Macon Song starts with the chorus CHORUS: F (133211@1) G7Four (320001@1)rode by, F (133211@1) G7Rode (320001@1)through here; C (x32010@1) F (133211@1) G7 (320001@1) C (x32010@1) Three Mclean boys and that wild Alex Hare. F (133211@1) G7They (320001@1)were armed, F (133211@1) G7All (320001@1)were armed, C (x32010@1) F (133211@1) G7 (320001@1) C (x32010@1)It was them. I'd have known them anywhere. 1ST VERSE: C (x32010@1) G7 (320001@1) F (133211@1) COh (x32010@1)Willie Palmer's stallion was no twenty dollar cayuse, C (x32010@1) G7 (320001@1) F (133211@1) CAnd (x32010@1)when the wild ones stole him he hightailed it into town C (x32010@1) G7 (320001@1) F (133211@1) C (x32010@1)Usher in those days was keeping order in the district G7 (320001@1) F (133211@1) CBut (x32010@1)before he'd ridden thirty miles the McLean boys shot him down CHORUS 2ND VERSE: C (x32010@1) G7 (320001@1) F (133211@1) C (x32010@1) A shepherd known as Kelly saw the wild bunch as they passed C (x32010@1) G7 (320001@1) F (133211@1) CThey (x32010@1)shot him with a rifle and took his watch and chain C (x32010@1) G7 (320001@1) F (133211@1) CWhen (x32010@1)the posse found them they were in the lonely cabin C (x32010@1) G7 (320001@1) F (133211@1) CA (x32010@1)hunger took their fight away and no one else was slain CHORUS 3RD VERSE: C (x32010@1) G7 (320001@1) F (133211@1) CThey (x32010@1)hung the boys in January eighteen eighty one, C (x32010@1) G7 (320001@1) F (133211@1) CThe (x32010@1)first time in that province that they'd strung up brothers three; C (x32010@1) G7 (320001@1) F (133211@1) CAnd (x32010@1)the son killed nineteen Germans 'cross the seas back in seventeen C (x32010@1) G7 (320001@1) F (133211@1) C (x32010@1) 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)
