Berserkr - Bitter Harvest lyrics

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Outlaw was a humble man,<br />

As the story would reveal<br />

An honest law-abiding man,<br />

Just a farmer in his field<br />

His dear wife had passed away<br />

In the winter of '25<br />

Did his best to raise the children<br />

And to keep that farm alive<br />

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Then came that awful drought<br />

And the children's hunger pains<br />

Crops failed and the springtime passed<br />

Without a single drop of rain<br />

The weeks passed, the sheriff came<br />

With the banke at his side<br />

Took the farm that his family had lived on all<br />

Their lives<br />

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Tears fell from the children's eyes<br />

He kissed them each farewell<br />

He be back when some work was found<br />

But only time could tell<br />

He knew his kin would raise them up<br />

To be kind and gentle folk<br />

To get as near as the best for them<br />

Was all that he could hope<br />

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And then the rain came - it was a blood spill<br />

The gunfire was heard through the cities and the fields<br />

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Dug out his dusty six-gun<br />

That he carried as a calvary scout<br />

Made a mask from an old bandanna<br />

Saddled up for a ride to town<br />

Masked man slid down from the saddle<br />

Walked the steps to the bank's front door<br />

Left the town with a bag full of gold<br />

And the greedy bank man dead on the floor<br />

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Thus began his career as an outlaw<br />

Lived a life at the end of a gun<br />

Day to day: bank to bank<br />

Doomed to spend his life on the run<br />

All the common people loved him<br />

One of them who had taken a stand<br />

Against the banks that had bled them dry<br />

And sucked the blood of the working man<br />

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The man died as the story told it<br />

Ambushed at the edge of town<br />

On his feet with his six-gun blazing<br />

Blood and gold spread on the ground<br />

The man Lives in the lives of the people<br />

The deeds done and the stories told<br />

The man's gone but he Lives forever<br />

In the tales of the guns and gold