Billy The Kid

	  		
verse 1 

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I'll sing you a true song of Billy the Kid 
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I'll sing you the record of deeds that he did 
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Way out in New Mexico a long time ago 
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When a man's only friend was his own forty-four 


verse 2 
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Now 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 west with a knife in his hand 
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At the age of twelve years he killed his first man 


verse 3 
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Fair Mexican maidens play guitars and sing 
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Songs about Billy, their boy bandit king 
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Before his young manhood had reached its sad end 
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He'd a notch on his pistol for twenty-one men 


Instrumental 
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verse 4 
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It was on one black night that poor Billy died 
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He said to his friends, "I'm not satisfied 
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There's twenty-one men that I've put bullets through 
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And sheriff Pat Garrett's gonna make twenty-two" 


Verse 5 
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Well, this is how Billy the Kid met his fate 
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A big moon was shining and the hour was late 
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Shot down by Pat Garrett, Silver City's best friend 
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The poor outlaw's life had reached its sad end