Key: G
Introduction:
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Verse
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There's guns across the river about to pound you,
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There's lawmen on your trail like to surround you,
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Bounty hunters are dancing all around you,
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Billy, they don't like you to be so free.
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Living out all night on the veranda,
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Walking in the streets down by the hacienda,
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Up to Boot Hill they'd like to send you,
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Billy, don't you turn your back on me.
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Playing around with some sweet senorita,
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Into her dark chamber she will greet you,
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In the shadows of the mesas she will lead you,
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Billy, and you're going all alone.
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They say that Pat Garrett's got your number,
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So sleep with one eye open when you slumber,
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Every little sound just might be thunder,
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Thunder from the barrel of his gun.
Intro
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There's always another stranger sneaking glances,
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Some trigger-happy fool willing to take chances,
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Some old w * * *e from San Pedro will make advances,
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Advances on your spirit and your soul.
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So hang on to your woman if you got one,
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Remember in El Paso once you shot one,
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Yeah and up in Santa Fe one time you bought one,
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Billy, you've been running for so long.
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Gypsy queens will play your grand finale,
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Way down in some Tularosa alley,
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Maybe in La Rio Pecos valley,
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Billy, you're so far away from home,
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Billy, you're so far away from home.