Billy The Kid chords by
Woody Guthrie

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Key: D major•

Verse 1

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I'll tell you the story

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of Billy the Kid,

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and I'll tell of the things

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that this young outlaw did,

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way out in the west when

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the country was young,

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when the gun was your law

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and your law was your gun.

Now the Mexican maidens

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liked Billy so well,

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How many he had, no expert could tell.

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While singing and drinking

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he'd come to his inn,

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Shot down by Pat Garrett,

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who once was his friend.

Pat Garrett rode up to the

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window that night,

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And the desert was still

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and the moonlight was bright,

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And he listened a while

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as a kid told his tale

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Of shootin' the guard

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at the Los Cruces jail.

You sweet Mexican maidens,

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come give me your hand.

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At the age of sixteen,

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I killed my first man.

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It was out in New Mexico long, long ago,

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When a man's only chance

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was his old forty -four.

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I rode down the border in a robin war

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as I drank to the maidens

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the happiest of days.

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My picture is posted

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from Texas to Maine,

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and women and riding and rob

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bing's my game.

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On the same night that young Billy died,

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he said to his friends,

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I just ain't satisfied.

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There's 21 men that I

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put bullets through

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And the sheriff of this county's

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gonna make 22

Pat Garrett's been fired

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and his thumb buster cracked

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An d Billy fell dead,

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he was blowed through the back

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Pat rode away and the kids layin' dead

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And this was the last song of Billy

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as a kid you

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