stripped of my pride at the age of twenty one lived my life with a knife and a gun fought really hard for all i had only to lose it to the man yeah lost it all oh lost it all now they got me i m chained again caught on the run caught on the run took my woman my money and my guns and told me boy your trouble just begun oh just begun baby don t you tell me you found somebody new baby don t make me start collecting the blue steel dues those blue steel dues baby i ll be home i ll be there in due time just you be waiting at the railroad line been gone so long and i got bad news i m coming home with those blue steel dues i got bad news oh yeah yeah baby don t you tell me you found somebody new don t make me start collecting the blue steel dues the blue steel dues the blue steel dues i think i m going to kill somebody baby stripped of my pride at the age of twenty one lived my life with a knife and a gun fought really hard for all i had only to lose it to the man oh lost it all the blue steel dues the blue steel dues the blue steel dues the blue steel dues the blue steel dues don t want no no blue steel dues