Jesse James (G)

Artist: Ralph Estes (English)
User: ralph estes
Duration: 130 seconds
Delay: 12 seconds
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Minstrel Billy Gashade wrote this song immediately after Jesse James' death. An overnight hit, its lyrics ran in major newspapers nationwide and the tune became a standard in vaudeville and saloons. In the 1930s, Woody Guthrie rewrote the lyrics to promote the 20th Century-Fox movie, Jesse James, starring Tyrone Power and Henry Fonda.
"He stole from the rich and he gave to the poor," they sang in later years .... And the folklore had some basis in fact. There wasn't much point to stealing from the poor

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Jesse James was a lad who killed many a man,
He robbed the Glendale train
He stole from the rich and he gave to the poor
He'd a hand and a heart and a brain

It was on a Saturday night, the moon was shining bright
When they robbed the Glendale train
With the agent on his knees, he delivered up the keys
To the outlaws Frank and Jesse James

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     Oh, Jesse had a wife who mourned for his life
     And three little children, they were brave
     But that dirty little coward that shot Mister Howard
     Has laid poor Jesse in his grave

The people held their breath when they heard of Jesse's death
They wondered how he ever came to fall
Robert Ford, it was a fact, shot Jesse in the back
While Jesse hung a picture on the wall

     chorus 

Well, this song it was made by Billy Gashade
As soon as the news did arrive.
He said there was no man with the law in his hand
Who could take Jesse James when alive.



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