Stealin'

Album: Sweet Freedom (1973)
Charted: 91
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  • Take me across the water 'cause I need some place to hide.
    I done the rancher's daughter and I sure did hurt his pride.

    Oo-oo oo-oo ah ah ah
    oo-oo oo-oo ah ah ah.

    Well, there's a hundred miles of desert lies between his hide and mine.
    I don't need no food, no water, Lord, 'cause I'm running out of time.

    Fightin', killin', wine and women gonna put me to my grave.
    Runnin', hidin', losin', cryin'. nothing left to save
    but my life.

    Oo-oo oo-oo ah ah ah
    oo-oo oo-oo ah ah ah.

    Stood on a ridge and shunned religion thinking the world was mine.
    I made my break and a big mistake, stealing when I should have been buying.

    All that fightin', killin', wine and women gonna put me to an early grave.
    Runnin', hidin', losin', cryin', nothing left to save Writer/s: KEN HENSLEY
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Comments: 7

  • John Castle from The Great State Of MaineLoved it in 73 and still love it in 2023 when music mattered !
  • George Pope from Vancouver Bcthis sounds like a song someone wrote as a PSA in exchange to avoid jail time for their own crime.
  • Randy R Byrd from Jacksonville FloridaFirst song I ever sang on stage 1989
  • AnonymousI still play that song regularly.
    Ok. I also play all the early
    Blk. Sabbath stuff
    Every Sunday religiously. ;)
  • Michael Johnson from Cochise ArizonaI first heard uriah heep stealing on a mix tape in 1980 listening to it at high school fell in love with it never got to see them in concert but i did seek out all of their albums lost them all when house burned
  • Rick from Salisbury, NcI went with a friend to the Uriah Heep / Rod Stewart concert in Charlotte, NC about '78 I think it was. We were some of the first ones at the coliseum that day and went down to the stage and stood at the front row. We were there when Uriah Heep came out and by the time their concert was over we were about 100 feet back from the stage and got separated from each other. We found each other, finally, and went upstairs to the nosebleed section and sat on the steps and watched Rod Stewart. He was actually a downer after the rocking Uriah Heep concert. It wore us out, and we had to rest during Stewart's concert! Dave Byron was tremendous!
  • Jb from Tustin, CaLook up Jam in the dictionary and this title will be somewhere in the definition!
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