Four Rode By

	  		


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Four rode by, 
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Rode through here; 
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Three Mclean boys and that wild Alex Hare. 
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They were armed, 
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All were armed, 
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It was them. I'd have known them anywhere. 


1ST Verse: 
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Oh Willie Palmer's stallion was no twenty dollar cayuse, 
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And when the wild ones stole him he hightailed it into town 
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Usher in those days was keeping order in the district 
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But before he'd ridden thirty miles the McLean boys shot him down 

Chorus 

2ND Verse: 
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A shepherd known as Kelly saw the wild bunch as they passed 
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They shot him with a rifle and took his watch and chain 
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When the posse found them they were in the lonely cabin 
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A hunger took their fight away and no one else was slain 

Chorus 

3RD Verse: 
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They hung the boys in January eighteen eighty one, 
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The first time in that province that they'd strung up brothers three; 
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And the son killed nineteen Germans 'cross the seas back in seventeen 
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One thing that's for damned sure they're a wild ass family 

FINAL Chorus