Outlaw Pete chords by Bruce Springsteen

Chords with lyrics

A minorAm D7/F#D7/F#
He was born a little baby on the Appalachian Trail
E minorEm E MajorE A minorAm
At six months old he'd done three months in jail
A minorAm D/F#D/F#
He robbed a bank in his diapers and his little bare baby feet
E minorEm E MajorE A minorAm
All he said was "Folks, my name is Outlaw Pete."

C majorC
I'm Outlaw Pete!
G+G
I'm Outlaw Pete!
A minorAm D7/F#D7/F#
Can you hear me?

A minorAm D/F#D/F#
At twenty-five a mustang pony he did steal
E minorEm E MajorE A minorAm
And they rode around and 'round on heaven's wheel
A minorAm D/F#D/F#
Father Jesus, I'm an outlaw killer and a thief
E minorEm E MajorE A minorAm
And I slowed down on Lee and I saw my grief (???)

C majorC
I'm Outlaw Pete!
G+G
I'm Outlaw Pete!
A minorAm D7/F#D7/F#
Can you hear me?

FF C majorC
He cut his trail of tears across the countryside
G+G D MajorD (w/Kiss fill) E MajorE
And where he went, women wept and then died

A minorAm D7/F#D7/F#
One night he woke from a vision of his own death
E minorEm E MajorE A minorAm
Saddled his pony and rode her deep into the West
A minorAm D7/F#D7/F#
Married a Navajo girl and settled down on the ranch (???)
E minorEm E MajorE
And as the snow fell he held their beautiful daughter to his
A minorAm
chest

C majorC
I'm Outlaw Pete!
G+G
I'm Outlaw Pete!
A minorAm
Can you hear me?
D7/F#D7/F#
Can you hear me?
C majorC Cadd9Cadd9 Csus2Csus2 C majorC Fmaj7Fmaj7 F6F6 FF Fmaj7Fmaj7 A minorAm FF
Can you hear me?

C majorC FF A minorAm FF

FF C majorC
Out of the East on an Irish stallion came Bounty Hunter Dan
G+G A minorAm

His heart quickened and burned by the need to get his man
FF
He found Pete peacefully fishing by the river, pulled his gun
C majorC
and got the draw???
A minorAm D MajorD
He said, "Pete, you think you've changed, but you have not."

(instr w/Kiss riff)
FF E MajorE

A minorAm
He cocked his pistol, pulled the trigger and shouted "let it
D7/F#D7/F#
start!"
E minorEm E MajorE
Pete drew a knife from his boot, threw it and pierced him
A minorAm
through the heart
A minorAm D7/F#D7/F#
Dan smiled as he lay in his own blood dying in the sun
E minorEm E MajorE
And whispered in Pete's ear, "We cannot undo these things
A minorAm
we've done."

C majorC
You're an Outlaw Pete!
G+G
You're an Outlaw Pete!
A minorAm
Can you hear me?
D/F#D/F#
Can you hear me?
E MajorE
Can you hear me?

A minorAm D7/F#D7/F#
For forty days and nights Pete rode and did not stop
E minorEm E MajorE A minorAm
Till he sat high upon an icy mountain top
A minorAm D7/F#D7/F#
He watched a hawk on a desert ??? slip and slide
E minorEm E MajorE A minorAm
Moved to the edge and dug his spurs deep into his pony's side

C majorC A minorAm C majorC A minorAm G+G A minorAm G+G FF E MajorE A minorAm

A minorAm D7/F#D7/F#
Some say Pete and his pony vanished over the edge
E minorEm E MajorE A minorAm
Some say they remain frozen high upon that icy ledge
A minorAm D7/F#D7/F#
A augmentedA young Navajo girl washes in the river, skin so fair
E minorEm E MajorE A minorAm
And braids a piece of Pete's buckskin chaps into her hair

C majorC
Outlaw Pete!
G+G
Outlaw Pete!
A minorAm
Can you hear me?
D7/F#D7/F#
Can you hear me?
E MajorE
Can you hear me?
A minorAm
Can you hear me?
D7/F#D7/F#
Can you hear me?
C majorC FF
Can you hear me?
A minorAm FF
Can you hear me?
C majorC FF
Can you hear me?
A minorAm FF
Can you hear me?
C majorC FF
Can you hear me?
A minorAm FF
Can you hear me?
C majorC FF
Can you hear me?
A minorAm FF C majorC
Can you hear me?