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Lyrics for Billy The Kid by Guthrie Woody:
| | | Artist: | Guthrie Woody |
| | Album: | Miscellaneous | | Track: | Billy The Kid | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 67 | | | | Lyrics: | Billy The Kid
I'll sing you a true song of Billy the Kid,
I'll sing of the desperate
deeds that he did,
Way out in New Mexico, long long ago
When a man's only chance was his
own 44.
When Billy the Kid was a very young lad
In the old Silver City he went to
the bad
Way out in the West with a gun in his hand
At the age of twelve years he first
killed his man.
Fair Mexican maidens play guitars and sing
A song about Billy, the
boy bandit king
How ere his young manhood had reached its sad end
He'd a notch on his
pistol for twenty-one men.
'Twas on the same night when poor Billy died
He said to
his friends: "I am not satisfied.
There are twenty-one men I have put bullets through
And
sheriff Pat Garrett must make twenty-two."
Now this is how Billy the Kid met his
fate,
The bright moon was shining, the hour was late
Shot down by Pat Garrett, who once
was his friend
The young outlaw's life had now come to its end.
There's many a man
with a face fine and fair
Who starts out in life with a chance to be square,
But just like
poor Billy he wanders astray
And loses his life in the very same way.
Note: This
song -- a pretty good one, I think -- is remembered
mainly because Woody Guthrie used the tune
for the verse of So
Long, It's Been Good to Know You.
From Lomax-Cowboy Songs and
Other Frontier Ballads
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