(Traditional, arranged by Ry Cooder)

(G) - (D)



(G) I'll sing you a true song of (D) Billy the (G) Kid

I'll (D) sing the record of (G) deeds that he did

Way out in New Mexico a long time (D) ago

When a (G) man's only friend was his (D) own forty- (G) four



Now when Billy the Kid was a very young lad

In old Silver City he went to the bad

Way out west with a knife in his hand

At the age of twelve years he killed his first man



Fair Mexican maidens play guitars and sing

Songs about Billy their boy bandit king

Before this young manhood reached its sad end

He'd a notch on his pistol for twenty one men



It was on one black night that poor Billy died

He said to his friends,