Now pretty boy was born in the Oklahoma hills
Where the beautiful flowers grow wild
He was christened Charles Arthur by parents so proud
Who thanked God for their beautiful child
By the side of his cradle his mother would sing
Never dreaming the sorrows he'd bring
But a mother's heart is broke when a boy grows to man
It's been ever true since time first began
Now pretty boy was 20 when he married his young wife
She was only 16 summers old
Then he went to work in a bakery shop out there
But he drifted away from the fold
Left his young wife in Dixie in 1924
Went to Kansas to try to earn more
Then he went to St. Louis got in bad company
And wound up in a penitentiary
He served his time went to Ohio
k**ed a man and was sentenced again
He didn't serve the time the jury gave to him
For he jumped from a fast speeding train
Kansas City was the next he took it on the run
k**ed two brothers with his careless gun
He k**ed Mr. Byrd and a man named Wilson
And he left Kansas City on the run
Ohio again, he k**ed Mr. Ches Stewart
Spreading fear all along his crooked path
Then he went back home got into another row
k**ed the sheriff who stirred up his wrath
It was the last trip to Ohio for that wicked fool
He was shot dead 8 miles to Liverpool
Pretty boy will learn on that great Judgment Day
That a life filled with crime does not pay