Billy Gray

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Billy Gray Road In The Country 
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Back In The
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Year Of 83,
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Where He First Met Pretty Sarah 
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Maclean,
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A Wild Rose Of Morning A Pale 
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Flower A Dawning,
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Carol did spring time in Billy’s
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 life that day

V2
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Now Sarah she could not see the 
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daylight of
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reality
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In her young eyes Billy born Not 
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of the law
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Knowing That Her Chosen One Once And
 Was A
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Higher Gun
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Wanted In Kansas City By The Law

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But True Love Has No Season no rhyme
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reason
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justice it is cold as the 
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Grainger County clay

V3
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And Then One Day A Tall Man Came 
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Riding From
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The Badlands
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That Lied To The North Of New Mexico
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He Was Overheard To Say He Was 
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Looking For
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Billy Gray
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A Wanted Man And A Dangerous Outlaw

V4
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Well the news it came creeping to 
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Billy fast
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sleeping
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there in the bar the Clair Inn and 
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hotel
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He Ran To The Old Church That Lied 
On The
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Outskirts
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Thinking He’d Hide In The Old 
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Steeple There

V5
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But A Rifle Ball Came Flying Face 
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Down He’ll
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Lay Dying
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There In The Dust In The Road 
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Were He Lay
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Sarah Ran To Him She Was Cursing
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 That Law Man
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Poor Girl Had No Reason Except That 
He Had Been
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Killed

(sing Ch)

V6
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Sarah Still Lives In That All The 
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Old White
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Framed House
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Where She First Met Billy 40 Years 
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Ago
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But The Wild Rose morning has Faded 
with the
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dawning
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Each Day Of Sorrow The Lonely 
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Years Have Known

V7
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And written on the old stone were 
The dusty
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winds have blown
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18 Words To The Passing Strange Say
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True Love Has No Season No Rhyme
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 Nor No Reason
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Justice Is It Cold As A Grainger
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 County Clay