Dock Boggs - Cole Younger lyrics

I am a noted bandit Cole Younger is my name To many a d**h procession My friends I brought to shame Of robbing of a Northfield bank's A thing I can't deny Now I'm a poor prisoner In the Stillwater jail I lie The first of my many robberies I will relate to you Was a poor Californian miner And the same will surely rue I taken from him his money And I told him to go his way The same will check my conscience Until my dying day I went home And brother Bob did say "We'll buy fine horses And together ride away" We started out for Texas That good old Lone Star State All on the new prairie There the James boys meet / The James boys we did meet With knives and revolvers We all set out to play A-drinking good corn whisky, boys To pa** the time away The Union Pacific We first did surprise A-murdering of your own heart's blood Would bring tears to your eyes Brother Bob was shot and wounded All in Northfield he did lie / All in Northfield he did die All on the new prairie There the bullion lie