Billy The Kid chords by Marty Robbins

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------|--------|
B |-0-2-4-----|-------------|-------9-9-|-9--9----9-|-9------|--------|
G |-----------|-------------|-----------|-----------|--------|--------|
D |-----------|-------------|-----------|-----------|--------|--------|
A |-----------|-------------|-----------|-----------|--------|--------|
E |-----------|-------------|-----------|-----------|--------|--------|
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  | Rhythm Guitar
e |-----------|------0--0---|----0--0---|----0--0---|---0--0-|---0--0--|
B |-----------|------0--0---|----0--0---|----0--0---|---0--0-|---0--0--|
G |-----------|------1--1---|----1--1---|----1--1---|---1--0-|---1--1--|
D |-----------|-2-----------|-----------|-2---------|--------|-2-------|
A |-----------|-------------|-2---------|-----------|-2------|---------|
E |-----------|-------------|-----------|-----------|--------|---------|
                                                          I'll sing...

Verse 1:
     E                       B7
I'll sing you a true song of Billy the Kid
     E                      B7
I'll sing of some desperate deeds that he did
     E                A
Way out in New Mexico long, long ago
       E                         B7        E     Em
When a man's only chance was his own forty-four

Verse 2:
     E                   B7
When Billy the Kid was a very young lad
   E                  B7
In old Silver City he went to the bad
E                           A
Way out in the West, with a gun in his hand
       E                          B7             E     Em
At the age of twelve years he did kill his first man

Verse 3:
        E                    B7
There's Mexican maidens play guitars and sing
E                       B7
Songs about Billy their boy bandit king
E                         A
Ere his young manhood has reached his sad end
       E                       B7         E     Em
With a notch an his pistol for twenty one men

Verse 4:
    E                   B7
Was on a sad night when poor Billy died
   E                  B7
He said to his friend I'm not satisfied
E                             A
There's twenty one men I have put bullets through
E                        B7          E     Em
Sheriff Pat Garrett must make twenty two

Verse 5:
     E                      B7
I'll sing you how Billy the Kid met his fate
    E                           B7
The bright moon was shining the hour was late
E                            A
Shot down by Pat Garrett who once was his friend
    E                          B7         E     Em
The young outlaw's life is now come to an end

Verse 6:
        E                 B7
There's many a man with a face fine and fair
    E                        B7
Who start out in life with a chance to be square
E                         A
Just like poor Billy they wander astray
        E                       B7        E    Em
They'll lose their lives in the very same way


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