Don't Take Your Guns To Town chords by
Dick Nolan

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Key: A major

Verse 1
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A young cowboy named Billy Joe
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G G 
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grew restless on the farm.
A boy filled with wonderlust
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who really meant no harm.
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He changed his clothes
and shined his boots
and combed his dark hair
down.
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And his mother cried as he walked out,
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Don't take your guns to town, son.
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G G 
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Leave your guns at home, Bill.
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Don't take your guns to town.
He laughed and kissed his mom
and said,
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You're Billy Joe's a man.
I can shoot as quick and straight
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G G 
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as anybody can.
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But I wouldn't shoot without a cause,
I'd lay nobody down
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D D 
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G G 
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But he cried again as he rode away
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G G 
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Don't take your guns to town, son
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G G 
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Leave your guns at home, Bill
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G G 
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Don't take your guns to town
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G G 
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He sang a song as on
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he rode his gun slung at his hips.
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He rode into a  cattle town,
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a smile upon his lips.
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He stopped and walked into a bar
and laid his money down,
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C C 
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G G 
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but his mother's words echoed again.
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Don't take your guns to town, son.
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G G 
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Leave your guns at home, Bill.
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G G 
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Don't take your guns to town.
He drank his first strong liquor,
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then to calm his shaken hand
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And tried to tell himself at last
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he had become a man
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A dusty cowpoke at his side
began to laugh him down
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And he heard again his
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C C 
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mother's words
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Don't take your guns to town, son
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Leave your guns at home, Bill
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Don't take your guns to town
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Bill was raged and Billy Joe
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reached for his gun to drop
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But the stranger drew his gun
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and fired before he even saw
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As Billy Joel fell to the floor,
the crowd all gathered round,
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G G 
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and wondered at his final words.
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Don't take your guns to town, son.
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G G 
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Leave your guns at home, Bill.
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G G 
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Don't take your guns to town.

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