Key: E major•
Verse 1
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I started out with a gun
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when I was very young
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My first small gamble and then
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I ran with a gang and we robbed a bank
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And I ended up in a pen
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There among other men
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I learned the tricks of the trade
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We planned to break and one rainy day
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We took the chance and got away
We ran for miles through
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the rainy woods
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Somehow they lost the trail
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I vowed right then until the end
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They'd never put me back in jail
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And all the papers and on the radio
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Warning everyone against
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And they refer to me as Public Enemy
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Number One
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I lived from then on
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without a moment's peace
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Afraid and always on the run
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in any normal light
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Of course, we lived by the gun
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I was just a kid who was bored with life
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When I first started out on the run
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and soon there'll be a new
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From John Dillinger to Al Capone,
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they all have paid their price
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Men who go against God in law
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live a lonely, troubled life
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The only reward in the end
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is death or life in a coal steel cell
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Oh, there'll be a new public enemy
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But don't ever let it be you
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Don't ever let it be you
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsE A B F#
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