You don't want to marry me honey,
Though just to hear you ask me is sweet;
If you did you'd regret it tomorrow
For I'm only a girl of the street.
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You've read the story of Jesse James
Of how he lived and died;
If you're still in need
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You've read the story of Jesse James
of how he lived and died.
If you're still in need;
of something to read,
...
We each of us have a good 'alibi'
For being down here in the 'joint'
But few of them really are justified
If you get right down to the point.
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Billy rode on a pinto horse
Billy the Kid I mean
And he met Clyde Barrow riding
In a little gray machine
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