Roy Hurd

Lyrics

Joyce And Ricky
Roy Hurd/Amy Kohanski

Joyce put red lipstick on her sassy little mouth
Her and Ricky headed to the county court house
They were not going there to get married by no justice of the peace
They were turnin themselves in to the local police
For two years runnin they played a dangerous game
But they stood behind every single choice they ever made
Against the wrong they saw they made their stand
With a steel grip they took the law into their own hands

Harry McGregor was a powerful man
But his daughter wore the bruises from the back of his hand
He did things to that child that we can’t even say
Except for Joyce and Ricky the whole town looked the other way
One night Joyce and Ricky took that little McGregor kid
To an aunt in the next county and they told her what Harry did
They went back and beat up Harry and tied him to his bed
Wrote a note for the cops and left him there for dead

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They were wild as the wind free like the birds
Till they made the choice to save that girl
Their whole world it changed in just one night
You gotta do whatever it takes to make things right

They hit the road runnin the cops hot on their trail
They wouldn’t be locked up and they couldn’t pay no bail
From state to state they traveled under ground
They made it their mission to right every wrong that they found
To some they were heroes to some outlaws
To them it was justice in a system that’s flawed
They were already wanted they had nothing to lose
So Joyce and Ricky they made national news

Word came down from the state DA
They were turnin themselves in at two o’clock today
The whole town was waitin when they came rollin in
Laughin and cheerin and that made Ricky grin
They took em out of the car slapped the cuffs on their wrists
But before they did Joyce turned around and blew the town a kiss
A reporter asked Joyce if she had anything to say
She said we die what was right let the chips fall where they may

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