Colter Run

[Verso 1]


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In 1809 John Colter and John Potts 
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Paddled their canoe up the Jefferson 
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On the hunt for beaver sign and a good camping spot 
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And right when they reached the river bend 


[Verso 2]

 
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Blackfeet warriors swarmed the river bank 
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And motioned for them to surrender 
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Colter threw up his hands but Potts tempted his fate 
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And was riddled with arrows and dismembered 


[Verso 3]


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They ripped off Colter’s clothes and took his moccasins 
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And told him to start running for his life 
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Like a game of cat and mouse just dragging out the end 
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He took off with the Madison in his sights 


[Refrão]

F           C 
Run Colter run 
G           Am 
Run like the wind 
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Or set like a sun 
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Never to rise again 
F          C 
Run Colter run 
G             Am 
Breathe every breath 
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And pray that you find the strength to 
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Outrun death 


[Verso 4]


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He ran and ran like a deer from a wolf pack 
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Body aching, bleeding head to toe 
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Born a swift runner he left the Blackfeet miles back 
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Save for a lone warrior holding his own 


[Verso 5]


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Out of breath Colter stopped and stretched his hands out 
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In surprise the warrior fell and dropped his spear 
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So Colter jumped upon him and stabbed him on the ground 
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And started running before the rest appeared 


[Refrão]
 
F           C 
Run Colter run 
G           Am 
Run like the wind 
F             C 
Or set like a sun 
          G 
Never to rise again 
F          C 
Run Colter run 
G             Am 
Breathe every breath 
     F             C          G 
And pray that you find the strength to 
        Am 
Outrun death 


[Verso 6]


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He jumped in the water and climbed in a beaver lodge 
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And hid there ’til the darkness finally fell 
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By the moonlight he went east for eleven days he walked 
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When he reached the trading post he had quite tale to tell 


[Refrão]

F           C 
Run Colter run 
G           Am 
Run like the wind 
F             C 
Or set like a sun 
          G 
Never to rise again 
F          C 
Run Colter run 
G             Am 
Breathe every breath 
     F             C          G 
And pray that you find the strength to 
        Am 
Outrun death 

Outro 

F          C 
Ooooooooooooo 
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Run for your life 
F          C 
Ooooooooooooo 
G 
Till you can’t go no more 
F          C 
Ooooooooooooo 
G         Am 
Run Colter run 
F          C 
Oooooooooooo 
G             Am 
Outrun death