Bob Seger

Songwriter: Traditional

Producer: Punch Andrews

[Verse 1]
When Jesse James was a lad
He killed many a man
And he roamed over the Scarsdale range (Whoa)
Robbin' from the rich
And givin' to the poor
He was dark and cold and full of rage
Oh yes he was, sing with me

[Chorus]
Jesse had a wife
To mourn for his life
And three children
They were all so brave
But that dirty little coward
He went and shot Mr. Howard
And laid poor Jesse in his grave (Yeah)

[Verse 2]
It was on a Saturday night
When Jesse was at home
Talking to old railroad Jed (Oh)
Along come Robert Ford
Like a thief in the night
And he shot poor Jesse in the back (Oh yeah)

[Chorus]
Say, Jesse had a wife
To mourn for his life
Three children
They were all so brave
But that dirty little coward
He went and shot Mr. Howard
And laid poor Jesse in his grave (Yeah)

[Outro]
They laid him six feet under the ground
Oh, they laid him six feet under the ground
They laid him six feet under the ground
Oh, they laid him six feet under the ground
Oh, they laid him six feet under the ground
They laid him six feet under the ground
They laid him six feet under the ground
Six feet under the ground
Oh, six feet under the ground
Six feet under the ground

Robert Clark “Bob” Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist. As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s. By the early 1970s, he had dropped the “System” from his recordings and continued to strive for broader success with various other bands. In 1973, he put together the Silver Bullet Band, with a group of Detroit-area musicians, with whom he became most successful on the national level with the album Live Bullet, recorded live with the Silver Bullet Band in 1975 at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan. On his studio albums, he also worked extensively with the Alabama-based Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, which appeared on several of Seger’s best-selling singles and albums.

In 1976, he achieved a national breakout with the studio album Night Moves. The Night Moves title track became his first Billboard Top 5 single and the album started a string six consecutive albums landing in the Billbaord Top 10. The 1980 album, Against the Wind, topped the charts.

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