Bruce Springsteen – Jim Deer (Guitar)

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My name's James Lucas Deer, I was born in Remington

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Now my home is Richfield prison, where I pay for the wrongs I done

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Once, I was free and on the streets of Indiana when I was twenty-two

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Yeah, just a kid lookin' for some fun, no better or worse than you

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Sir

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Me and Pat, we married in the spring, moved in with her ma and pa

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On our wedding night, she sighed, "Jimmy, we can have anything we want"

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Well, it was for those things we wanted, I did all the stealing that I could do

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I stole from the law, I stole from her pa, I probably stole from you

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Sir

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Well, Pat, she had a brother, a brother name of Sil

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He made a living stealing farm equipment down in Luthersville

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He'd sit at my kitchen table, and that roll of dough he'd flash

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He said, "Jimmy, you need little extra work? All you gotta do is ask."

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Was on a job down in Oxford, we woke that farm boy from his bed

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We took off runnin', Sil dropped his rifle and shot himself in the leg

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Well, they caught up with us out on Highway 61

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Yeah, when we seen them coming, we didn't even run

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Well, the trial was short and sweet, me and Sil got our stories crossed

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The judge said, "Boys, first you played, and now you pay the cost

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I'm gonna give you some time to get straight your facts

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Yeah, two years dead and even in the Richfield County rack."

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Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah