Cowboy Billy

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Words and Music by:
Larry B. Bastian and Ed Berghoff
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Verse:
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He told a good story and all us 
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kids listened
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'Bout his life on the border and 
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the way it was then
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And we all believed, and when he 
would finish
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We'd ask the old cowboy to tell em 
again
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You could almost hear those 
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prairie winds blowin' =

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His saddle a crekin 'neath his old
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 faded jeans
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You could taste the dry dust from 
the trail he was ridin'
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Continúa después del anuncio
As he sat there and he painted those
 west Texas scenes
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Chorus:
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Dm  C/E     F     =

    And the grown ups would tell us 
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   (And the grown ups that told us) 
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        C      =

    You boys keep your distance
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    that old man's just tellin you 
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lies
           C
    But to all us kids
   (Well now they're all sayin')
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    Cowboy Bill was a hero =

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    Just as true as his blue texas 
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skies.
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Additional Verses:
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He told of a time when he rode with 
the Rangers
Down on the Pecos and he saved the 
day
Outnumbered by plenty, they were 
almost to cover,
WIth thirty banditos headed their 
way.
He looked back just in time to see a
 horse stumble,
The captain wnet down and bill 
pulled up on his reins.
And through a flurry of bullets he 
rescued the captain,
They rode for a sunset, just the 
story remains.
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Well, I still remember the day that 
it happened
We waited and waited, but Bill never
 showed.
And the folks at the feedstore said 
they hadn't seen him
So we set out for his place down Old
 Grist Mill Road.
And we Cried when we found him lying
 there with his Memories
The old trunk wide open things 
scattered about.
And he was clutching a badge that 
said texas Ranger,
And an old yeller letter said "Texas
 is Proud"
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(To second Chorus)