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[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 rcords 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 fiend 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 in the West with a gun in his hand
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At the age of twelve years he killed his first man.

[Verse 3]
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There's Mexican maids play guitars and sing
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Songs about Billy, their boy bandit king
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'Ere his young manhood has reached his sad end
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With a notch an his pistol for twenty one men!

[Guitar Solo]
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[Verse 4]
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It was on one black night when poor Billy died
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He said to his friend, "I'm not satisfied
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There's twenty one men I have put bullets through
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Sheriff Pat Garrett gonna make twenty two!"

[Verse 5]
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Now this is how Billy the Kid met his fate
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The brick moon was shinin', the hour was late
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Shot down by Pat Garrett, Bill said his best friend
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The outlaw's life has reached his sad end.