The Great Pixley Train Robbery

[Intro]          x3 [Verse 1]    To your hands I give you    Aboard from Hawaii    The ship they call Northern Lights    A fugitive   one of three highway man    Who stopped the Pixley train at night    About 8 PM   22 February    We force seven 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 [Verse 2]    When he found the ship    Would not put in there    There’s a reason to believe he set her on fire    When our bomb exploded    Buckshot 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          x4 [Verse 3]    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