The Great Pixley Train Robbery

The Great Pixley Train Robbery

Song The Great Pixley Train Robbery
Artist Cass McCombs
Album Tip of the Sphere

Lyrics

[00:29.88] To your hands I give you
[00:32.61] Aboard from Hawaii
[00:35.37] The ship they call Northern Light
[00:39.99] A fugitive
[00:42.73] One of three highwaymen
[00:45.15] Who stopped the Pixley train that night
[00:49.44] About 8 PM
[00:52.48] 22 February
[00:54.99] We forced 7 thousand in gold
[00:59.24] Two were killed in the melee
[01:02.28] A fireman of the train
[01:05.17] And a passenger from Modesto
[01:09.14] The leader was an
[01:12.28] Insurance agent, this I know
[01:19.87] The third man set for
[01:22.10] Remote islands near the equator
[01:29.62] When he found the ship
[01:31.89] Would not put in there
[01:34.76] There's reason to believe he set her on fire
[01:39.28] When our bomb exploded
[01:41.86] Buckshot unloaded
[01:44.34] We three made off in dire
[01:49.58] To the Right Honorable
[01:51.81] American Council
[01:54.56] To the Hawaiian King
[01:59.23] I swear before Notary
[02:01.77] To make a clean breast
[02:04.43] Of the whole thing
[02:09.25] In hope of salvation
[02:11.51] For surely I'll be found before port
[02:17.38] Before Postal authorities can act
[02:21.71] I surrender myself unto the reward
[03:07.43] Since I was taken
[03:10.48] From the Napa asylum
[03:13.18] And put on a whaler for my own good
[03:17.99] I told the Captain
[03:20.61] Not to let me ashore
[03:23.01] Except under guard
[03:28.41] If no faith is placed
[03:30.51] In this letter
[03:33.24] You are letting a brigand free
[03:37.58] The passenger coaches
[03:40.38] Were not molested
[03:42.06] Violence I can't see
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