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Outlaw Pete
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He was born a little baby on the Appalachian Trail
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At six months old he'd done three months in jail
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He robbed a bank in his diapers and little bare baby feet
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All he said was "Folks, my name is Outlaw Pete."
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I'm Outlaw Pete!
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I'm Outlaw Pete!
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Can you hear me?
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At twenty-five a mustang pony he did steal
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And they rode her 'round and 'round on heaven's wheel
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Father Jesus, I'm an outlaw killer and a thief
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And I slowed down only to sow my grief
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I'm Outlaw Pete!
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I'm Outlaw Pete!
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Can you hear me?
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He cut his trail of tears across the countryside
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And where he went, women wept and men died
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One night he awoke from a vision of his own death
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Saddled his pony and rode her deep into the West
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Married a Navajo girl and settled down on the res
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And as the snow fell he held their beautiful daughter to his
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chest
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I'm Outlaw Pete!
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I'm Outlaw Pete!
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Can you hear me?
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Can you hear me?
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Can you hear me?
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Out of the East on an Irish stallion came Bounty Hunter Dan
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His heart quickened and burdened by the need to get his man
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He found Pete peacefully fishing by the river, pulled his gun
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and got the drop
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He said, "Pete, you think you've changed, but you have not."
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He cocked his pistol, pulled the trigger and shouted "let it
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start!"
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Pete drew a knife from his boot, threw it and pierced him
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through the heart
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Dan smiled as he lay in his own blood dying in the sun
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And whispered in Pete's ear, "We cannot undo these things
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we've done."
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You're an Outlaw Pete!
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You're an Outlaw Pete!
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Can you hear me?
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Can you hear me?
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Can you hear me?
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For forty days and nights Pete rode and did not stop
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Till he sat high upon an icy mountaintop
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He watched a hawk on a desert updraft slip and slide
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Moved to the edge and dug his spurs deep into his pony's side
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Some say Pete and his pony vanished over the edge
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Some say they remain frozen high upon that icy ledge
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A young Navajo girl washes in the river, skin so fair
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And braids a piece of Pete's buckskin chaps into her hair
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Outlaw Pete!
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Outlaw Pete!
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Can you hear me?
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Can you hear me?
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Can you hear me?
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Can you hear me?
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Can you hear me?
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Can you hear me?
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Can you hear me?
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Can you hear me?
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Can you hear me?
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Can you hear me?
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Can you hear me?
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Can you hear me?
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Can you hear me?
