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And he dreamed of the bygone days, in monitors down south Russell, the lawman and the renegade have graced a thousand songs
But claude s out in the sage tonight he may be the last outlaw, and he always packed a pistol
Where rivers run and disappear the mustang still is free, living hand to mouth
Jim stevens heard the gunfire, and he learned the ways of cattle Claude, then claude took to livin all alone out many miles from town
convicted up in idaho--manslaughter by decree
In a land the spanish once had called the northern mystery, that day two wardens--pogue and elms--rode into check claude out
Then claude took to livin all alone out many miles from town, they were gonna take claude in to jail
And he always packed a pistol, but dallas would not leave his camp, and he studied bobcat logic and their wild and silent ways
Thirty years at maximum, pogue claimed they were out of season Dallas, in the sage outside of paradise they drove him to the ground
When he s livin this far from town., jim stevens walked on over there was a gun near bill pogue s hand
as the wind howled throught the bull-camp they stared each other down
He had a bobcat pelt or two, when he s livin this far from town.
He was born out in virginia, there s two sides two this story
Where rivers run and disappear the mustang still is free, bill pogue was falling backwards, by the devil s wash and coyote hole in the wild owyhee range
thirty years at maximum
And he learned to sit a horse, now claude had hung some venison Tom, you re all thru.
They were seeking violations and to see what claude s about, thirty years at maximum
Then claude he became a trapper, in the bloody runs near paradise
and he vowed he d never go
That day two wardens--pogue and elms--rode into check claude out, but dallas would not leave his camp, where rivers run and disappear the mustang still is free
of the fugitive claude dallas who just broke out of jail
Jim stevens heard the gunfire, where rivers run and disappear the mustang still is free
In the sage outside of paradise they drove him to the ground, claude said i am justified jim
Its hard to say what happend next, but claude s out in the sage tonight he may be the last outlaw Russell, where rivers run and disappear the mustang still is free
And he dreamed of the bygone days, bill pogue was falling backwards Russell, but the events that i ll describe took place in nineteen eighty-one
they were gonna cut me down
They were seeking violations and to see what claude s about, jim stevens heard the gunfire
by the devil s wash and coyote hole in the wild owyhee range
But soon claude would break free, come gather round me buckaroos and a story i will tell, and when he turned around
And he dreamed of the bygone days, in the bloody runs near paradise Dallas, he refused to go to town
And a man s got a right to hang some meat, then claude took to livin all alone out many miles from town
In the sage outside of paradise they drove him to the ground, in the bloody runs near paradise
and he vowed he d never go
Thirty years at maximum, then claude he became a trapper
He said dallas, and a man s got a right to hang some meat
but claude s out in the sage tonight he may be the last outlaw
perhaps we ll never know
But dallas would not leave his camp, they were gonna take claude in to jail