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Billy and Bonnie easy guitar chords by
Steve Earle
Steve Earle

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Verse 1
G

Billy was seventeen and mean as hell

Bonnie said she was thirty,

it was hard to tell

Now Billy met Bonnie on a Saturday night

At the dirt track races,
Verse 2

it was love at first sight
G


Now Bonnie was wilder than
C
G

the west wind blows
C
G

Taught Billy every single thing he knows
C
G

But she never told Billy what she left out

The part about the trouble when
C
G

your times runs out
Verse 3
D

When the thrill is gone,
G

when your deal goes south
C

It's all over when your time
G

runs out
Interlude 1
G
D
G
C
G
D
G

Verse 4
G

Well Bonnie said, "Billy,

don't you think it's time

We moved on a little further down the line"

So they knocked off a

Texaco south of town

Blew down the highway
C
G

with the ragtop down
Verse 5
G


Now Billy woke Bonnie
C
G

up about daylight

Said, "You drive honey,
C
G

I've been up all night"

Now Billy wasn't sweatin'
C
G

no APB

'Cause he didn't leave
C
D
G

a single soul alive to see
Verse 6
G
D

He was just sixteen,
G

made his mama proud

That don't mean nothin'
C
D
G

when your time runs out
Verse 7
G
D
G
C
D
G
D
G

Now

Bonnie
C
G

kept pushin' that Cadillac

Billy passed out with
C
G

the seat reared back

Slept through Louisiana,
C
G

then just past dark
C
D
G

Bonnie pulled over in a roadside park
Verse 8
G
C
G

Left Billy sleeping and she called the cops

He never knew nothin' when
C
D
G

the dime was dropped
D
G
C
G

Now Bonnie knew what she had to do
C
G

She called the sheriff and she cried on cue
D
And the state police
Verse 9
G

rousted Billy out

He was dreaming about Bonnie when
C
G

his time run out
Interlude 2
G
C
G
D
G
C
G
D

G
Well the sheriff told
Verse 10

Billy, "Boy,
C
G

you're bound to die

'Cause this young lady's
D
C
G

gonna testify
C
D
G

That you done took her off against her will

And she told us about the robbery
D
G

and the boy you killed"

Now the judge said, "Billy,
C
G

what you got to say

Before I have the sheriff
C
G

carry you away"
C
G

Now Billy looked Bonnie right in the eye

But he didn't even have to ask her why
D

But he turned around when
G

they led him out

He said I'll see you down in
D
G

hell when your time runs out

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