Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Four Rode By, artist - Ian & Sylvia.
Date of issue: 17.08.2021
Song language: English
Four Rode By |
Willie Palmer’s stallion was no twenty dollar cayuse |
And when the wild ones stole him he hightailed it into town |
Ussher in those days was keeping order in the district |
But before he’d ridden thirty miles the McLean boys shot him down |
Cho: Four rode by |
Rode through here |
Three Mclean boys and that wild Alex Hare |
They were armed |
All were armed |
It was them I’d have known them anywhere |
A shepherd known as Kelly saw the wild one as they passed |
They shot him with a rifle and took his watch and chain |
When the posse found him in the lonely cabin |
A hunger took their pride away and no one else was slain* |
They hung the boys in January eighteen eighty three |
First time in that province that they’d strung up brothers three |
And their sons killed nineteen Germans cross the seas back in seventeen |
One thing that’s for damned sure they’re a wild old family |