Key: E
Introduction:
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I've just seen trouble: he's calling out your name tonite
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Billy get your guns
You could walk away but I know you were born to fight
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So Billy get your guns
The bandileros are strung out in the promenade
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Billy get your guns
And the wind whispers softly that the devilís to blame
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Billy get your guns
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Billy get your guns, there's trouble blowing like a hurricane
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Billy get your guns, that's the price on your head
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For the price of fame and it'll never change...Billy get your guns
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There's a whiskey bottle empty sittin' on the bar
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Billy get your guns
And some organ grinder singing about some sucker moving on
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Billy get your guns
All the whores are hanging out waiting to get paid
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Billy get your guns
From some Johnny on the spot who said, "Aey, keep the change baby"
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Billy get your guns
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They christened you with whiskey
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And there's fire running through your veins
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Well you're an outlaw just the same
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And every night a bullet wears your name
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I've seen hangman dancing beneath the pale moonlight
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Billy get your guns
And every stranger that you meet thinks it's his lucky night
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Billy get your guns
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I don't envy you, Billy, but I want to say you better get your guns
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'Cause every outlaw that's died will live to ride again
Billy get your guns