Real Jesse James

Famous quotes containing the words jesse james, real, jesse and/or james:

    “They robbed the Danville train.
    And the people they did say, for many miles away,
    ‘Twas the outlaws Frank and Jesse James.”
    —Unknown. Jesse James (l. 6–8)

    “A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    “But the dirty little coward that shot Mister Howard,
    He laid poor Jesse in his grave.”
    —Unknown. Jesse James (l. Chorus)

    “And she straiked me three times o’er her knee;
    She changed me again to my ain proper shape,
    And I nae mair maun toddle about the tree.”
    —Unknown. Alison Gross. . .

    Oxford Book of Ballads, The. James Kinsley, ed. (1969)