Four Rode By

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