Outlaw Pete

Key: AmBruce Springsteen

Chords and lyrics for Outlaw Pete by Bruce Springsteen

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VERSE

He was born a little baby on the

Appalachian Trail.

At six months old, he'd done three months in jail.

He robbed a bank in his diapers and his little bare baby feet.

All he said was, folks, my name is

Outlaw Pete.

CHORUS

I'm Outlaw Pete

I'm Outlaw Pete can you hear me?

VERSE

At 25 a

Mustang pony he did steal

And he rode around and 'round on heaven's wheel

Father Jesus, I'm an outlaw killer and a thief.

And I slow down only to sow my grief.

CHORUS

I'm outlaw Pete

I'm outlaw Pete

Can you hear me?

VERSE

He cut his trail of tears across the countryside

And where he went women wept and men died

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VERSE

One night he awoke from a vision of his own death

Saddled his pony and rode out deep into the west

a Navajo girl and settled down on the

And as the smoke fell he held that beautiful daughter to his chest

CHORUS

I'm Outlaw Pete

I'm Outlaw Pete

Can you hear me?

Can you hear me?

Can you hear me?

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VERSE

Out of the east on an

Irish stallion came Bounty Hunter Dan

His

heart quickened and burdened by the need to get his man.

He found Pete peaceful fishing by the river, pulled his gun and got the drop.

He said, Pete, you think you've changed, but you have not.

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VERSE

He cocked his pistol, pulled the trigger and shouted, let

it He drew a knife from his boot threw it and pierced Dan through the heart.

Dan smiled as he lay in his own blood, dying in the sun.

ear,

we cannot undo these things we've done.

CHORUS

You're Outlaw

You're Outlaw Pete.

Can you hear me?

Can you hear me?

Can you hear me?

VERSE

For 40 days and nights,

Pete rode and did not stop.

sat

high upon an icy mountain top.

He watched a hawk on a desert updraft slip and slide

Moved to the edge and dug his spurs deep into his pony's side

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VERSE

Some say Pete and his pony vanished over the edge

Some say they remain frozen high upon that icy ledge

A young Navajo girl washes in the river skin so fair

And braids a piece of Pete's buckskin chaps into her hair

CHORUS

Outlaw Pete

Outlaw, Pete Can you hear me?

Can you hear me?

Can you hear me

Can you hear me

Can you hear me

Can you hear me

Can you hear me

Can you hear me?

Can you hear me?

Can you hear me?

Can you hear me

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Outlaw Pete chords by Bruce Springsteen