Key: C
Introduction:
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Cowboys and outlaws and long shiny rails
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Was the background setting of grandpappy's tales
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Places like Tucson and old Santa Fe
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Cheyenne Wyomin' during Rodeo Days
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I'd sit there for hours perched on his knee
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To ride just as far as his memory could see
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With Billy The Kid and the one Jesse James
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Rail ridin' outlaws that robbed lots of trains
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Let me tell you a story 'bout Billy The Kid
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The one Jesse James and some things that we did
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I knew them well son just like my own name
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Billy and Jesse me and we robbed trains
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But a boy don't stay seven all of his life
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And he starts to wonder what's true and what's lies
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Still respect makes him listen to an old man's refrain
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Bout a wild bunch of cowboys and some make believe trains
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Let me tell you a story 'bout Billy The Kid
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The one Jesse James and some things that we did
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I knew them well son just like my own name
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Billy and Jesse me and we robbed trains
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The funeral was family as funerals should be
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Except for two cowboys no one else could see
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And then they were gone just as quick as they came
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Billy and Jesse had robbed one more train
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Let me tell you a story 'bout Billy The Kid
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The one Jesse James and some things that we did
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I knew them well son just like my own name
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Billy and Jesse me and we robbed trains