Bruce Springsteen – Outlaw Pete (Guitar)

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Artist: Bruce Springsteen Song: Outlaw Pete Album: Working on a Dream Transcribed by Hugo Kleinhans (hugotahell)
Am                                             D
He was born a little baby on the Appalachian Trail

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

Am                                                        D
He robbed a bank in his diapers and his little bare baby feet

E                                           Am           
All he said was "Folks, my name is Outlaw Pete."
Chorus
      C
I'm Outlaw Pete!

      G
I'm Outlaw Pete!

         Am
Can you hear me?

  D
Doo, doo, doo, doo doo

            Am                         D
At twenty-five a mustang pony he did steal

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

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

       E                          Am
And I slowed down only to sow my grief

       C
I'm Outlaw Pete!

       G
I'm Outlaw Pete!

         Am
Can you hear me?

  D
Doo, doo, doo, doo doo

                F                           C
They cut his trail of tears across the countryside

          G                             D          E
And where he went, women wept and men died

         Am                                  D
One night he awoke from a vision of his own death

     E                                        Am
Saddled his pony and rode her deep into the West

          Am                                   D
Married a Navajo girl and settled down on the res

                  E                                            Am
And as the smoke fell he held that beautiful daughter to his chest

       C
I'm Outlaw Pete!

      G
I'm Outlaw Pete! 

        Am
Can you hear me?

          D
Can you hear me?

         C   
Can you hear me?
Instrumental Break: C - F - Am - F x2
             F                                           C
Out of the East on an Irish stallion came Bounty Hunter Dan

          G                                             Am
His heart quickened and burdened by the need to get his man

                 F                                                          C
He found Pete peacefully fishing by the river, pulled his gun and got the drop

                G                                       D            F              E
He said, "Pete, you think you've changed, but you have not."

               Am                                             D
He cocked his pistol, pulled the trigger and shouted, "Let it stop!"

            E                                                       Am
He drew a knife from his boot, threw it and pierced Dan through the heart

        Am                                           D
Dan smiled as he laid in his own blood dying in the sun

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

          C
You're Outlaw Pete!

          G
You're Outlaw Pete!

         Am
Can you hear me?

          D
Can you hear me?

         E
Can you hear me?

            Am                                    D
For forty days and nights Pete rode and did not stop

             E                         Am
Till he sat high upon an icy mountain top

                Am                                 D
He watched the hawk on a desert updraft slip and slide

               E                                          Am
Moved to the edge and dug his spurs deep into his pony's side
Instrumental Break: C - Am - C - Am G - Am - G - F - E - Am
           Am                                  D
Some say Pete and his pony vanished over the edge

                 E                              Am  
Some say they remain frozen high upon that icy ledge
Am Dm <------ Only Dm in the song. All other The young Navajo girl washes in the river, skin so fair D's are major
               E                                       Am
And braids a piece of Pete's buckskin chaps into her hair

    C
Outlaw Pete!

    G
Outlaw Pete!

         Am
Can you hear me?

         D
Can you hear me? 

         E
Can you hear me?

         Am
Can you hear me?

         D
Can you hear me?

         C
Can you hear me?

          F
Can you hear me?

         Am
Can you hear me?

          F
Can you hear me?

          C
Can you hear me?

          F
Can you hear me?

          Am
Can you hear me?

          F
Can you hear me?
C - F - Am - F (repeat couple of times and end on C)