Billy The Kid

Marty Robbins

Key of C · Chords: I IV V

Verse 1

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I'll sing you a true song of Billy the Kid
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I'll sing of some desperate deeds that he did
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Way out in New Mexico long long ago
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When a man's only chance was his own forty-four

Verse 2

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When Billy the Kid was a very young lad
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In old Silver City he went to the bad
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Way out in the West with a gun in his hand
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At the age of twelve years he did kill his first man

Verse 3

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There's Mexican maidens play guitars and sing
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Songs about Billy their boy bandit king
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Ere his young manhood has reached his sad end
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With a notch an his pistol for twenty one men

Verse 4

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Was on a sad night when poor Billy died
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He said to his friend I'm not satisfied
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There's twenty one men I have put bullets through
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Sheriff Pat Garrett must make twenty two

Verse 5

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I'll sing you how Billy the Kid met his fate
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The bright moon was shining the hour was late
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Shot down by Pat Garrett who once was his friend
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The young outlaw's life is now come to an end

Verse 6

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There's many a man with a face fine and fair
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Who start out in life with a chance to be square
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Just like poor Billy they wander astray
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They'll lose their lives in the very same way