I Used To Be An Outlaw Lyrics

I used to be an outlaw

Riding on the range

Movin' undercover If I thought I heard my name

If you wanna be an outlaw

There's a price on your head

And there's always someone wants to see you dead

They got Billy the Kid

They got Jesse James

They got Butch and Sundance too

I heard they wanted to add my name

And I knew my outlaw days were through

I used to be an outlaw

Fearing for my life

I fled to New York City And I took myself a wife

But she didn't want an outlaw

'Cause times were getting tough

She read the news and said she'd had enough

They got Billy the Kid

They got Jesse James

They got Butch and Sundance too

I heard they wanted to add my name

And I knew my outlaw days were through

I was the fastest gun alive and at the age of twenty five

I had my picture on the wall of every courthouse big and small

Now I'm a pillar of society, with an emptiness inside of me

Mortgaged to my necktie and I wish that I were free

Just like Billy the Kid

Like Jesse James

Like Butch and Sundance too

But an empty grave the bears my name

Says my outlaw days are through

I used to be an outlaw

Riding on the range

Looking at me now I guess you'd think that's pretty strange

How I used to be an outlaw

Living on borrowed time

But there's always someone saying that's a crime

They got Billy the Kid

They got Jesse James

They got Butch and Sundance too

I know they wanted to end that game

The way they always do

So I cut my hair, shaved off my beard

And then I changed my name

We'll I've given up those outlaw ways

But underneath I'm still the same

I used to be an outlaw

I used to be an outlaw

I used to be an outlaw

I used to be an outlaw