They can't catch me never gonna find me
They're never gonna know that I'm the High Plains
Drifter
Pulled over to the river to take a rest
Pulled out a pair of pliers and pulled the
bullet out of my chest
Fear and loathing across the country listening to my 8
track
Reached behind the seat and grabbed a Kool from the pack
Long distance from my girl
and I'm talking on the cellular
She said that she was sorry and I said yeah the hell you
were
Check my rear view mirror check the gold tooth display
Check the odometer and I was
on my way
Cause I'm a high plains drifter the best that you can get
A strapped shoplifter
a pirate on cassette
Bust a Travis Bickle when I feel that I'm getting pushed
Don't step
to me or you're gonna get mushed
Doing 120 plowing over mail boxes
Radar detector to tell
me where the cops is
Spend another night at the Motel 6
It's five dollars extra get the
porno flicks
Concoct a black and tan in my brandy snifter
I'm a kleptomaniac K-Mart
shoplifter
Cash flow getting low so I had to pull a job
I found a nice place to visit but
a better place to rob
Left the car outside with the engine still revvin'
Time to get busy
at 7-Eleven
Went inside to make my withdrawal
I would've took what he had had had I had to
take it all
Knucklehead deli tried to gyp me on the price
So I clocked him off the turban
with the bag of ice
Mellow like Jell-O cool like lemonade
Made my getaway and I thought
that I had it made
I feel like Steve McQueen a former movie star
Look in my rearview
mirror seen a police car
Ballantine quarts with the puzzle on the cap
I couldn't help but
notice I was caught in a speed trap
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry on the run from Dirty
Harry
Stash the cash in the dash but my gun I did carry
I'm seeing blue and red flashing
deep in the night
I got my alibi straight and I pulled over to the right
Cop knocked on my
window and said Boy where's the fire
you've got a mailbox on your bumper and a bald front
tire
*Outta the car longhair* your goose is cooked
Read me my rights fingerprinted and
booked
Makin' like a D.T. driving a Gran Fury
Wherever I hang my hat's my home and my past
is kind of blurry
Every dog will have its day and mine will be in front of a jury
I'm the
High Plains Drifter and I'm never in a hurry
Read me my rights as if I didn't know
this
Threw me in the tank with the drunk called Otis
With his five o' clock shadow he
smelled of 3-day old beer
My man turned to me and said why are you here?
I said I'm
charming and dashing I'm rental car bashing
Phony paper passing at Nix Check Cashing
Went
before the judge he sent me to the Brooklyn House of D.
He said you behave son or we'll throw
away the key
Harry Houdini'd out the cuffs I kicked the screw in the knee
Took the
bailiff's wallet and went straight to O.T.B.
I had a good feeling easy come easy go
I bet
on one horse to win and your mother to show
And sure enough that nag came in
Brought my
ticket to the window and collected my win
Broke into my new car with a wire coat
hanger
Hot wired hot wheeled and *Suzy is a headbanger
