Ian & Sylvia Follow
Four Rode By lyrics
Chorus:
Four rode by rode through here
Three McLean boys and that wild Alex Hare
They were armed all were armed
It was them and I'd have known them anywhere
Willy 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
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A shepherd known as Kelly saw the wild ones as they passed
And they shot him with a rifle and they took his watch and chain
When the posse found them there in the lonely cabin
A hunger took their fight away and no one else was slain
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They hung the boys in January 1881
The first time in that province that they'd strung up brothers three
And their sons killed 19 Germans 'cross the sea back in '17
One thing that's for damned sure they're a wild old family
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Part of these releases
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- Track 4 on Northern Journey
- 3 The Jealous Lover
- 5 Brave Wolfe
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- Track 4 on The Best of Ian and Sylvia
- 3 Early Morning Rain
- 5 Un Canadien Errant
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