High Plains Drifter

The High Plains

Drifter, and

I'm the drifter('Cause I'm a High Plains Drifter, drifter)

The High Plains

Drifter, and

I'm the drifter('Cause I'm a High Plains Drifter, drifter)

They can't catch me they're never gonna find me('Cause I'm a High Plains Drifter, drifter)

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, pulled the bullet out of my chest

Fear and loathing across the country listening to my 8 track

I reached behind the seat and snatched a

Kool from the pack

A 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 out the odometer and

I was on my way'

Cause I'm the

High Plains

Drifter, the best that you can get

A strapped shoplifter, a pirate on cassette('Cause I'm a High Plains Drifter, drifter)

Bust a Travis

Bickle when

I feel that

I'm getting pushed

Don't step to me or you're gonna get mushed('Cause I'm a High Plains Drifter, drifter)

I'm doing 120 plowing over mail boxes

Radar detector to tell me where the cops is

Spend another night at the

Motel 6It's five dollars extra get the porno flicks

And then I 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

I left my car outside, and the engine still revvin'

Taking care of business at 7-eleven

And then I went inside to make my withdrawal

I saw what he had had, but

I had to take it all

Knucklehead deli tried to gyp me on the price

So I clocked him off the turban with a bag of ice

Cause I'm mell-el-o like jell-el-o, cool like lemonade

I made my getaway and then

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 to 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

The cop knocked on my window, 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 FuryWherever

I hang my hat's my home and my past is kind of blurry('Cause I'm a High Plains Drifter, drifter)

Every dog will have its day, mine will be in front of a jury

I'm the High

Plains Drifter you know that

I'm never in a hurry('Cause I'm a High Plains Drifter, drifter)

Read me my rights, as if

I didn't know this

Threw me in the tank with a drunk called

OtisWith his five o' clock shadow, he smelled of three day old beer

My man turned to me and said "Why are you here"?

I said I'm charming,

I'm dashing,

I'm rental car bashing

I'm phony paper passing at

Nix Check

CashingI went before the judge he sent me to the

Brooklyn House of

DHe said "You behave son or we'll throw away the key"

Houdini'd out the cuffs,

I kicked the screw in the knee

I took the bailiff's wallet and went straight to

OTBI had a good feeling, easy come, easy go

I bet on one horse to win and another to show

And sure enough that nag came in

Brought my ticket to the window and collected my win

And then I broke into my new car with a wire coat hanger

Hot wired, hot wheeled, and

Suzy is a headbanger