Ian & Sylvia — Four Rode By

[Chorus] Four rode by Rode through here Three McLean boys and that wild Alex Hare [Chorus] They were armed All were armed It was them, I'd have known them anywhere [Verse 1] Willie Palmer's stallion was no twenty dollar cayuse And when the wild ones stole him, he high-tailed it into town Usher in those days was keepin' order in the district But before he'd ridden thirty miles, the McLean boys shot him down [Chorus] Four rode by Rode through here Three McLean boys and that wild Alex Hare [Verse 2] A shepherd known as Kelly saw the wild ones as they passed They shot him with a rifle, and they took his watch and chain When the posse found them they were in the lonely cabin A hunger took their fight away, and no one else was slain [Chorus] Four rode by Rode through here Three McLean boys and that wild Alex Hare [Instrumental Break] [Verse 3] They hung the boys in January 1881 The first time in that province that they'd strung up brothers three And the son killed nineteen Germans 'cross the seas back in '17 One thing that's for damned sure they're a wild old family [Chorus] Four rode by Rode through here Three McLean boys and that wild Alex Hare [Chorus] They were armed All were armed It was them, I'd have known them anywhere