Billy The Kid chords by Marty Robbins (Official Version)
Intro 1
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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
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was his own fortyfour
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Bridge 1
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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
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he did kill his first man
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Verse 2
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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
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has reached his sad end
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With a notch on his pistol for twenty one men
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Bridge 2
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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 safisfied
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There's twenty one men
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I have put bullets through
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Sheriff Pat Garrett must make twenty two!"
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Verse 3
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I'll sing you how Billy the Kid met his fate
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The bright moon was shinin',
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the hour was late
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Shot down by Pat Garrett
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who once was his friend
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The young outlaw's life is now come to an end
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Bridge 3
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There's many a man with a face fine and fair
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Who start out in life
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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
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Billy The Kid
Marty Robbins
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