The Outlaw

Woody Guthrie once said that people sing ballads about the outlaw because the outlaw refuses to live within the rich man’s system.  The outlaw tries to beat the world down to his size only to find out that he can’t because the world is so much bigger than he is.  The outlaw tries, and he may die trying, but at least he goes down shooting (qtd. in Edberg 2004).