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Introduction:
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Riding North on Interstate 75
With a nervous fading beauty sitting by his side
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And a pistol that he used to pave the way
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Down the long black stretches of a dark highway
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Ray bought his future with a pound of lead
When he robbed a liquor store and left the clerk for dead
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That kid should have put the money in the sack
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But he didn't and now there ain't no turning back
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He's a desperate rider, he's a Jesse James
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The best that he could hope for is a household name
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There ain't nobody that a man can trust
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When all his headlines read, notorious
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There ain't nobody that a man can trust
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When all his headlines read, notorious
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They pulled out of ? about12 o'clock
Took the heatstroke with the lights off to avoid the road block
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Ray killed the motor at the county line
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Changed his Tennessee plates to a lost tag sign
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She would never ask what the boy had done
But said she'd be his hostage if he needed one
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Her momma raised her to be loyal and true
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And she figured that's the least that she could do
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She was lost and lonely on a midnight ride
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Reluctant Bonnie to a poorman's Clyde
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It ain't too easy when the man you love
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Has got a reputation that's notorious
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It ain't too easy when the man you love
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Has got a reputation that's notorious
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They were just outside of Knoxville when the lights flashed on
And the siren's starting howling like hell houndogs
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Ray popped that Firebird into overdrive
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And swore he'd never let them take him alive
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He was a desperate rider, he was Jesse James
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The best that he'd ever hope for was a household name
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The morning papers didn't say too much
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But his obituairy read, notorious
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The caption by his picture didn't say too much
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But his obituairy read, notorious
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The caption by his picture didn't say too much
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But his obituairy read, notorious