The Great Pixley Train Robbery

Album: Tip of the Sphere (2019)
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  • To your hands I give you
    Aboard from Hawaii
    A ship they call Northern Light
    A fugitive, one of three highway men
    Who stopped the Pixley train that night
    About 8pm, 22 February
    We forced 7 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 they found the ship
    Would not put in there
    There's reason to believe he set her on fire
    When our bomb exploded
    Buck shot 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 Writer/s: Cass McCombs
    Publisher: DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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