D G D Billy Gray Road In The Country Back In The A Year Of 83, G D A Where He First Met Pretty Sarah Maclean, D G D A A Wild Rose Of Morning A Pale Flower A Dawning, G D A D Carol did spring time in Billy’s life that day V2 D G D Now Sarah she could not see the daylight of A reality G D A In her young eyes Billy born Not of the law D G D Knowing That Her Chosen One Once And Was A A Higher Gun G D A D Wanted In Kansas City By The Law Ch G D A But True Love Has No Season no rhyme nor no D reason G D A D justice it is cold as the Grainger County clay V3 D G D And Then One Day A Tall Man Came Riding From A The Badlands G D A That Lied To The North Of New Mexico D G D He Was Overheard To Say He Was Looking For A Billy Gray G D A D A Wanted Man And A Dangerous Outlaw V4 D G D Well the news it came creeping to Billy fast A sleeping G D A there in the bar the Clair Inn and hotel D G D He Ran To The Old Church That Lied On The A Outskirts G D A D Thinking He’d Hide In The Old Steeple There V5 D G D But A Rifle Ball Came Flying Face Down He’ll A Lay Dying G D A There In The Dust In The Road Were He Lay D G D A Sarah Ran To Him She Was Cursing That Law Man G D A Poor Girl Had No Reason Except That He Had Been D Killed (sing Ch) V6 D G D Sarah Still Lives In That All The Old White A Framed House G D A Where She First Met Billy 40 Years Ago D G D But The Wild Rose morning has Faded with the A dawning G D A D Each Day Of Sorrow The Lonely Years Have Known V7 D G D And written on the old stone were The dusty A winds have blown G D A 18 Words To The Passing Strange Say D G D A True Love Has No Season No Rhyme Nor No Reason G D A A Justice Is It Cold As A Grainger County Clay