Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Great Pixley Train Robbery, artist - Cass McCombs. Date of issue: 29.04.2021
Song language: English
The Great Pixley Train Robbery |
| To your hands I give you |
| Aboard from Hawaii |
| The ship they call Northern Lights |
| A fugitive, one of three highway man |
| Who stopped the Pixley train at night |
| About 8 PM, 22 February |
| We force seven thousand in gold |
| Two were killed in the melee |
| A fireman of the train |
| And a passenger from Modesto |
| The leader was an insurance agent, this I know |
| The third man set for remote islands near the equator |
| When he found the ship |
| Would not put in there |
| There’s a reason to believe he set her on fire |
| When our bomb exploded |
| Buckshot unloaded |
| We three made off in dire |
| To the Right Honorable |
| American council |
| To the Hawaiian king |
| I swear before notary |
| To make a clean breast |
| Of the whole thing |
| In hope of salvation |
| For surely I’ll be found before port |
| Before postal authorities can act |
| I surrender myself unto the reward |
| Since I was taken |
| From the Napa asylum |
| And put on a whaler for my own good |
| I told the captain |
| Not to let me ashore |
| Except under guard |
| If no faith is placed |
| In this letter |
| You’re letting a brigand free |
| The passenger coaches |
| Were not molested |
| Violence, I can’t see |