JESSE JAMES (Another version)
Ry Cooder

(Neil Morris)

I'll tell you about Jesse and Frank James
My grandfather was personally acquainted with them
My grandfather lived in the southern edge of Baxter County, Arkansas
And they stayed all night with him lots of nights
And my grandfather told me there was a lot of those robberies that was layed to Jesse and Frank James
And he knew they didn't do it 'cause they was at his place when it happened
But you couldn't tell the public that
When they get their minds made up that somebody's done something
Why the public's gonna stick to it anyway
My grandfather, he knew them as boys
And they could come to his place and go without anybody paying attention 'cause nobody expected them
Down in Arkansas, see, 'cause they was from Missouri
Now that's the story that my grandfather told me when I was just a boy
And he said that Frank James, at that World's Fair,
I think it was 1901 in St. Louis him and Jesse were both there
My grandfather and Frank James were together there
And that Frank James offered to bring Jesse there alive
He said that the man that the Ford boys killed wasn't Jesse James at all
But the fellow they killed was just about the size of Jesse and he was red headed
And he wasn't any relation to the Fords
See, Jesse James was a known cousin to Charles and Bob Ford
That's what my grandfather said
He said Jesse and Frank were not even in that part of the country when that fellow was killed
And the Ford boys, why, they collected a thousand dollars for killing Jesse James!
Now the song says that the Ford boys killed Jesse
None of us up here in the mountains believe that, no sir!


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  13 QUESTION METHOD   3 Cool Cats   3rd Base, Doger Stadium   5000 Country Music Songs   634-5789   634-5789 (Soulsville, U.S.A.)   A Canción Mixteca   ACROSS THE BORDERLINE   Across the Borderline [From the Border]   Alimony   ALL SHOOK UP   Always Lift Him Up, Kanaka Wai Wai   ALWAYS LIFT HIM UP/KANAKA WAI WAI   Amor de Loca Juventud   Archie's Funeral   ARCHIE'S FUNERAL (HOLD TO GOD'S UNCHANGING HAND)   At The Dark End Of The Street   Ax Sweet Mama   Better Things to Think About   Big Bad Bill Is Sweet William Now   BILLY THE KID   BLUE SUEDE SHOES   BOOMER'S STORY   Bourgeois Blues   Brother Is Gone   Can I Smoke In Here?   Cancion Mixteca   Chan Chan   Cherry Ball Blues   Chinito Chinito   Chloe   Coast of Malabar   Cole Younger Polka   COMIN' IN ON A WING AND A PRAYER   Crazy 'bout An Automobile   CRAZY 'BOUT AN AUTOMOBILE (Every Woman I Know)   CROW BLACK CHICKEN   Dark End Of The Street   Dark Is the Night   DENOMINATION BLUES   DITTY WAH DITTY   DO RE MI   Don't Call Me Red   DON'T MESS UP A GOOD THING   Dos Gardenias   Down in Hollywood   Down in Mississippi   DOWN IN THE BOONDOCKS   Drive Like I Never Been Hurt   El Carretero   El Cuarto de Tula [Buena Vista Social Club]   El Scorcho [Instrumental]   Escape from Northfield   F.D.R. IN TRINIDAD   Fernando Sez   Filipino Dance Hall Girl   Finale (Over the Rainbow)   Flathead One More Time   FRANCE CHANCE   Get Away   GET RHYTHM   Go Home Girl   Go Home, Girl   Goin' To Brownsville   GOING BACK TO OKINAWA   GOING TO BROWNSVILLE   GOOD MORNING MR. RAILROAD MAN   GOODNIGHT IRENE   Great Dream from Heaven   Gypsy Woman   He Made a Woman Out of Me   HE'LL HAVE TO GO   HEY PORTER   Hold That Snake   HOW CAN A POOR MAN STAND SUCH TIMES AND LIVE ?   How Can You Keep On Moving   HOW CAN YOU KEEP ON MOVING (UNLESS YOU MIGRATE TOO...   I Can Tell By The Way You Smell   I CAN'T WIN   I GOT MINE   I NEED A WOMAN   I'M A GOOD OLD REBEL   I'M DRINKING AGAIN   If Walls Could Talk   IT'S ALL OVER NOW   JESSE JAMES   Jesse James [From the Long Riders]   JESUS ON THE MAINLINE   JOHNNY PORTER   La Bayamesa   Leaving Missouri   LET'S HAVE A BALL   LITTLE SISTER   Little Trona Girl   LOOK AT GRANNY RUN RUN   Looking for the Wall Street Part of Town   Los Chucos Suaves   MAMA, DON'T TREAT YOUR DAUGHTER MEAN   Maria Elena   MARRIED MAN'S A FOOL   MEDLEY: FOOL FOR A CIGARETTE/FEELIN' GOOD   MEXICAN DIVORCE   MONEY HONEY   Mutt Romney Blues   My Dwarf Is Getting Tired   My Old Kentucky Home (Turpentine and Dandelion Win...   NEVER MAKE YOUR MOVE TOO SOON   Nobody   Old Kentucky Home   ON A MONDAY   Onda Callejera   ONE MEAT BALL   PIG MEAT   Pigmeat   POLICE DOG BLUES   Poor Man's Shangri-la   Powis Square   PRESIDENT KENNEDY   Rally 'round The Flag   Rally Round the Flag   Ridin With The Blues   Rio Grande [Instrumental]   School Is Out   SENECA SQUARE DANCE   Shine   SMACK DAB IN THE MIDDLE   Spayed Kooley   SPEEDO   STAND BY ME   Steel Guitar Heaven   TAMP 'EM UP SOLID   Tattler   TAXES ON THE FARMER FEEDS US ALL   TEARDROPS WILL FALL   THAT'S THE WAY LOVE TURNED OUT TO BE   The Dark End of the Street   THE GIRLS FROM TEXAS   The Last Sound (Alamo Bay) [From Alamo Bay]   The Long Riders   The Mutt Romney Blues   The Very Thing That Makes You Rich   The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor)   THE WAY WE MAKE A BROKEN HEART   TROUBLE YOU CAN'T FOOL ME   UFO HAS LANDED IN THE GHETTO   Veinte Años   VIGILANTE MAN   Viola Lee Blues   Viva Seguin/ Do Re Mi [Instrumental]   Volver, Volver   Waitin For Some Girl   WHICH CAME FIRST   Why Don't You Try Me   WILDWOOD BOYS   WOMEN WILL RULE THE WORLD   YELLOW ROSES

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