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


[Verse 2]
         G
Now when Billy the Kid was a very young lad
   D                  G
In old Silver City he went to the bad
G                                C
Way out west with a knife in his hand
       G                      D                G
At the age of twelve years he killed his first man


[Verse 3]
     G
Fair Mexican maidens play guitars and sing
D                        G
Songs about Billy, their boy bandit king
  G                                          C
Before his young manhood had reached its sad end
       G                       D          G
He'd a notch on his pistol for twenty-one men


[Instrumental]
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[Verse 4]
       G
It was on one black night that poor Billy died
   D                         G
He said to his friends, "I'm not satisfied
        G                                    C
There's twenty-one men that I've put bullets through
    G                           D           G
And sheriff Pat Garrett's gonna make twenty-two"


[Verse 5]
      G
Well, this is how Billy the Kid met his fate
  D                            G
A big moon was shining and the hour was late
     G                                       C
Shot down by Pat Garrett, Silver City's best friend
    G                      D               G
The poor outlaw's life had reached its sad end