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Outlaw Pete by Bruce Springsteen

He was born a little baby on the (1)______________________ Trail
At six (2)____________ old he'd done three (3)____________ in jail
He (4)____________ a bank in his diapers and his little bare baby feet
All he said was "Folks, my name is Outlaw Pete."

I'm (5)____________ Pete!
I'm Outlaw Pete!
Can you hear me?

At twenty-five a mustang pony he did steal
And (6)________ 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

I'm (7)____________ Pete!
I'm Outlaw Pete!
Can you hear me?

They cut his trail of tears across the countryside
And where he went, women wept and men died

One (8)__________ he woke from a (9)____________ of his own death
Saddled his pony and rode her deep (10)________ the West
Married a Navajo girl and (11)______________ (12)________ on the res
And as the snow fell he held
That beautiful daughter to his chest

I'm Outlaw Pete!
I'm Outlaw Pete!
Can you (13)________ 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 drop
He said, "Pete, you think you've changed, but you have not."

He cocked his pistol, pulled the trigger
And shouted "let it start"
Pete drew a knife (14)________ his boot, threw it,
And pierced Dan through the heart
Dan (15)____________ as he laid in his own blood dying in the sun
And (16)__________________ in Pete's ear,
"We cannot undo (17)__________ 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 (18)________ an icy mountain top
He watched the hawk on a desert updraft slip and slide
Moved to the edge and dug his spurs deep into his (19)________ side

Some say Pete and his pony (20)________________ over the edge
Some say they (21)____________ frozen high (22)________ (23)________ icy ledge
The (24)__________ Navajo girl washes in the river, skin so fair
And braids a (25)__________ of Pete's buckskin chaps into her hair

Outlaw Pete!
Outlaw Pete!
Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
Can you (26)________ me?
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