Billy The Kid lyrics

Song information

Artist: Chris Ledoux
Album: Sing Me A Song Mr. Rodeo Man

Lyrics

Billy the kid

In the southern part of texas, east and west of el paso
Where the mighty franklin mountains guard the trail to mexico

There's a new made widow cryin' and a hearse a-rollin slow
And I guess that devil's passed this way again

Theres a lathered sorrel stallion runnin through the jasper trees
A young man in the saddle with his coat tails in the breeze

Got a six gun on his right hip and a rifle at his knee
And he's dealin in a game that he can't win

Chorus:
Poor billy bonney, youre only twenty-one
Pat garrett's got your name on every bullet in his gun
Each notch you carved on your six-gun's got a bloody tale to tell
You're a mile ahead of garrett, and a step outside of hell

Them fancy clothes you're wearin' and the women in your bed
Can't take away the faces of the men that you left dead

As you ride across the badland with a price upon your head
Now that wheel of fortune starts to turn

Your reputation's grown till it's the biggest in the land
And there aint a lot of people left who'd wanna call your hand

And I guess you'll go down shootin' just like all branded men
And when you shake hands with the devil you get burned

Chorus x 2

[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]

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