Philadelphia Lawyer - Rose Maddox, Arlo Guthrie, Oklahoma Swing Band

Way out in Reno, Nevada

Where romance blooms and fades

A great Philadelphia lawyer

Was in love with a Hollywood maid

Come, love, and we will wander

Down where the lights are bright

I’ll win you a divorce from your husband

And we can get married tonight

Wild Bill was a gun-toting cowboy

Ten notches were carved in his gun

And all the boys around Reno

Left Wild Bill’s maiden alone

One night when he was returning

From riding the range in the cold

He dreamed of his Hollywood sweetheart

Her love was as lasting as gold

As he grew near her window

A shadow he saw on the shade

It was the great Philadelphia lawyer

Making love to Bill’s Hollywood maid

The night was as still as the desert

And the moon hanging high overhead

Bill listened a while to the lawyer

He could hear every word that they said

Your hands are so pretty and lovely

Your form’s so rare and divine

Come go with me to the city

And leave this wild cowboy behind

Now back in old Pennsylvania

Among the beautiful pines

There’s one less Philadelphia lawyer

In old Philadelphia tonight