Bruce Springsteen Outlaw Pete Lyrics

Outlaw Pete Lyrics

Outlaw Pete...



He was born a little baby on the Appalachian
Trail

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

Here at the
bank in his diapers and his little bare baby feet

All he said was "Folks,
my name is Outlaw Pete."



I'm Outlaw Pete!

I'm Outjaw
Pete!

Can you hear me?



At twenty-five a mustang pony he did
steal

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

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

And I slowed down on Lee and I
saw my grief



I'm Outlaw Pete!

I'm Outlaw Pete!

Can you
hear me?



They cut his trail of tears across the countryside

And where he went, when he wept and died

One night he woke from a
vision of his own death

Saddled his pony and rode her deep into the
West

Married a Navajo girl and settled down on the res

And as the
smooth ?fairy? he held that beautiful daughter to his chest



I'm
Outlaw Pete!

I'm Outlaw Pete!

Can you hear me?

Can you hear
me?

Can you hear me?



Out of the East on an Irish stallion
came Bounty Hunter Dan

His heart quickened and burned by the need to get
his man

He found Pete peacefully fishing by the river, pulled his gun and
got the ???

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

He cocked his pistol, pulled the trigger and shot him ?let it
stop?

He drew a knife from his boot and pierced him through the heart

Dan smiled as he layed in his own blood dying in the sun

And whispered
in Pete's ear, "We cannot undue these things we've done."



You're
Outlaw Pete!

You're Outlaw Pete!

Can you hear me?

Can you
hear me?

Can you hear me?



For forty days and nights Pete
rode and did not stop

Till he sat high upon an icy mountain top

He
watched the hawk on a desert ??? slip and slide

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



Some say Pete and his pony
vanished over the edge

Some say they remain frozen high upon that icy
ledge

The young Navajo girl washes in the river, skin so fair

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



Outlaw
Pete!

OutJaw 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?

Can you hear me?

Can you hear me?