Billy The Kid chords by Marty Robbins

Chords with lyrics

From the album "Gunfighter Ballads and Trail songs"

Introduction:
  Lead guitar
        TP      TP
e |-------0-2-|-4-------4-5-|-7-----7-7-|-9--7----9-|-7------|--------|
BB |-0-2-4-----|-------------|-------9-9-|-9--9----9-|-9------|--------|
G+G |-----------|-------------|-----------|-----------|--------|--------|
D MajorD |-----------|-------------|-----------|-----------|--------|--------|
A augmentedA |-----------|-------------|-----------|-----------|--------|--------|
E MajorE |-----------|-------------|-----------|-----------|--------|--------|
 |
 | Rhythm Guitar
e |-----------|------0--0---|----0--0---|----0--0---|---0--0-|---0--0--|
BB |-----------|------0--0---|----0--0---|----0--0---|---0--0-|---0--0--|
G+G |-----------|------1--1---|----1--1---|----1--1---|---1--0-|---1--1--|
D MajorD |-----------|-2-----------|-----------|-2---------|--------|-2-------|
A augmentedA |-----------|-------------|-2---------|-----------|-2------|---------|
E MajorE |-----------|-------------|-----------|-----------|--------|---------|
                             I'll sing...

Verse 1:
   E MajorE            B7B7
I'll sing you a true song of Billy the Kid
   E MajorE           B7B7
I'll sing of some desperate deeds that he did
   E MajorE        A augmentedA
Way out in New Mexico long, long ago
    E MajorE             B7B7    E MajorE   E minorEm
When a man's only chance was his own forty-four

Verse 2:
   E MajorE          B7B7
When Billy the Kid was a very young lad
  E MajorE         B7B7
In old Silver City he went to the bad
E MajorE              A augmentedA
Way out in the West, with a gun in his hand
    E MajorE             B7B7       E MajorE   E minorEm
At the age of twelve years he did kill his first man

Verse 3:
    E MajorE          B7B7
There's Mexican maidens play guitars and sing
E MajorE            B7B7
Songs about Billy their boy bandit king
E MajorE             A augmentedA
Ere his young manhood has reached his sad end
    E MajorE            B7B7     E MajorE   E minorEm
With a notch an his pistol for twenty one men

Verse 4:
  E MajorE          B7B7
Was on a sad night when poor Billy died
  E MajorE         B7B7
He said to his friend I'm not satisfied
E MajorE               A augmentedA
There's twenty one men I have put bullets through
E MajorE            B7B7     E MajorE   E minorEm
Sheriff Pat Garrett must make twenty two

Verse 5:
   E MajorE           B7B7
I'll sing you how Billy the Kid met his fate
  E MajorE              B7B7
The bright moon was shining the hour was late
E MajorE              A augmentedA
Shot down by Pat Garrett who once was his friend
  E MajorE             B7B7     E MajorE   E minorEm
The young outlaw's life is now come to an end

Verse 6:
    E MajorE         B7B7
There's many a man with a face fine and fair
  E MajorE            B7B7
Who start out in life with a chance to be square
E MajorE             A augmentedA
Just like poor Billy they wander astray
    E MajorE            B7B7    E MajorE  E minorEm
They'll lose their lives in the very same way


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