Artist: Woody Guthrie
Author: Woody Guthrie
Label: Library Of Congress
Year: 1940

Alan Lomax recording, who considered Woody's composition in league with traditionals as Jesse James and Casey Jones.

Outlaw Charles Arthur Floyd was nicknamed Pretty Boy in a brothel. 'Madame' Anne Chambers wanted to keep him for herself. His crime spree began during the Dust Bowl years when he started robbing banks all over the midwest. Gained legendary status while Robin Hooding the hardest hitted farmers and the unemployed. Topped the 'most wanted' list after killing five FBI agents in an ambush. Finally laid down by equally legendary G-man Melvin Purvis in October 1934, who posed with Pretty Boy's body as if he'd hunted down a piece of game. That same year, future singing cowboy Ray Whitley (see also: Back In The Saddle Again) cut his own Pretty Boy Floyd for Perfect/Banner, but that was another song.