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Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

Intro: 

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I saw her standin on her front lawn

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Just a-twirlin her baton

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Me and her went for a ride sir

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And ten innocent people died

 

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From the town of Lincoln Nebraska

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With a sawed of .410 on my lap

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Through to the badlands of Wyoming

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I killed everything in my path

 

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I can’t say that I’m sorry

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For the things that we done

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At least for a little while sir

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Me and her we had us some fun

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The jury brought in a guilty verdict and the

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Judge he sentenced me to death

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Midnight in a prison storeroom with

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Leather straps across my chest

 

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Sheriff when the man pulls that switch sir

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And snaps my poor head back

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You make sure my pretty baby

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is sittin’ right there on my lap

 

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They declared me unfit to live

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Said into that great void my soul’d be hurled

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They wanted to know why I did what I did

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Well sir I guess there’s just a meanness in this world

 

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This file is the author's own work and represents his interpretation of this song. It's intended solely for private study, scholarship or research.