Billy the Kid

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

When Billy the Kid was a very young lad
In old Silver City he went to the bad
'Way out West with a knife in his hand
At the age of twelve years he killed his first man.

There Mexican maidens play guitars and sing
Songs about Billy, their boy bandit-king
'Ere his young manhood has reached its sad end
He'd a notch on his pistol for twenty one men!

It was on one black night when poor Billy died.
He said to his friend, "I'm not satisfied
There's twenty one men that I've put bullets through,
Sheriff Pat Garrett's gonna make twenty two!"

Well, this is how Billy the Kid met his fate
The big moon was shinin', the hour was late
Shot down by Pat Garrett, Silver City's best friend,
The poor outlaw's life has reached its sad end.

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