Biography:
Oklahoma born singer/songwriter, James Talley, is an artist whose vision of the American experience, as author David McGee has said is “startlingly original.” As a youth, James’ family moved from Oklahoma to the state of Washington, where his father worked as a chemical operator in the now infamous Hanford plutonium factory. After five years in Richland, Washington, and realizing the hazards his father’s employment presented, the family relocated to Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Capo up 1 fret
[Verse 1]
C F C
So you never picked no peaches you never rode no boxcar train
C D G
You never worked down on the road gang or slept out in the rain
C F C
When you see a good man have to struggle sweat and strain
C G C
When a man can't feed his children don't it make you stop and think
[Chorus]
F G C CM9/B Am Am7/G
Are they gonna make us outlaws again
F G C CM9/B Am Am7/G
Is that what it's comin to my friend
F G C CM9/B Am
Well I think I see why Pretty Boy Floyd done the things he did
F G C
Are they gonna make us outlaws again
[Verse 2]
C F C
I'll tell you folks there's trouble there's tension everywhere
C D G
And everybody's askin when's it gonna end
C F
Well there ain't nobody answered because there ain't nobody up there
C G C
But I'll tell you folks there's trouble there's trouble everywhere
[Chorus]
F G C CM9/B Am Am7/G
Are they gonna make us outlaws again
F G C CM9/B Am Am7/G
Is that what it's comin to my friend
F G C CM9/B Am
Well I think I see why Pretty Boy Floyd done the things he did
F G C
Are they gonna make us outlaws again
[Verse 3]
C F C
Well hard times and breadlines ain't no sight to see
C D G
Being a man who's hungry ain't no plate of dreams
C F G
Yeah the blues is fine for singing but they's mighty hard to eat
C G C
If they rob you with a fountain pen, they rob you just the same
[Chorus]
F G C CM9/B Am Am7/G
Are they gonna make us outlaws again
F G C CM9/B Am Am7/G
Is that what it's comin to my friend
F G C CM9/B Am
Well I think I see why Pretty Boy Floyd done the things he did
F G C
Are they gonna make us outlaws again
[Verse 4]
C F C
There's always been a bottom and there's always been a top
D G
Someone took the orders and someone called the shots
C F G
Someone took the beating lord and someone got the prize
C G C
Well that might be the way it's been but that don't mean it's right
[Chorus]
F G C CM9/B Am Am7/G
Are they gonna make us outlaws again
F G C CM9/B Am Am7/G
Is that what it's comin to my friend
F G C CM9/B Am
Well I think I see why Pretty Boy Floyd done the things he did
F G C
Are they gonna make us outlaws again
F G C
Are they gonna make us outlaws again
F G C
(Spoken) I believe there gonna make us outlaws!
[Verse 1]
C F C
So you never picked no peaches you never rode no boxcar train
C D G
You never worked down on the road gang or slept out in the rain
C F C
When you see a good man have to struggle sweat and strain
C G C
When a man can't feed his children don't it make you stop and think
[Chorus]
F G C CM9/B Am Am7/G
Are they gonna make us outlaws again
F G C CM9/B Am Am7/G
Is that what it's comin to my friend
F G C CM9/B Am
Well I think I see why Pretty Boy Floyd done the things he did
F G C
Are they gonna make us outlaws again
[Verse 2]
C F C
I'll tell you folks there's trouble there's tension everywhere
C D G
And everybody's askin when's it gonna end
C F
Well there ain't nobody answered because there ain't nobody up there
C G C
But I'll tell you folks there's trouble there's trouble everywhere
[Chorus]
F G C CM9/B Am Am7/G
Are they gonna make us outlaws again
F G C CM9/B Am Am7/G
Is that what it's comin to my friend
F G C CM9/B Am
Well I think I see why Pretty Boy Floyd done the things he did
F G C
Are they gonna make us outlaws again
[Verse 3]
C F C
Well hard times and breadlines ain't no sight to see
C D G
Being a man who's hungry ain't no plate of dreams
C F G
Yeah the blues is fine for singing but they's mighty hard to eat
C G C
If they rob you with a fountain pen, they rob you just the same
[Chorus]
F G C CM9/B Am Am7/G
Are they gonna make us outlaws again
F G C CM9/B Am Am7/G
Is that what it's comin to my friend
F G C CM9/B Am
Well I think I see why Pretty Boy Floyd done the things he did
F G C
Are they gonna make us outlaws again
[Verse 4]
C F C
There's always been a bottom and there's always been a top
D G
Someone took the orders and someone called the shots
C F G
Someone took the beating lord and someone got the prize
C G C
Well that might be the way it's been but that don't mean it's right
[Chorus]
F G C CM9/B Am Am7/G
Are they gonna make us outlaws again
F G C CM9/B Am Am7/G
Is that what it's comin to my friend
F G C CM9/B Am
Well I think I see why Pretty Boy Floyd done the things he did
F G C
Are they gonna make us outlaws again
F G C
Are they gonna make us outlaws again
F G C
(Spoken) I believe there gonna make us outlaws!
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