Billy The Kid-Vernon Dalhart

[00:19.490]Ill sing you a true song of Billy the Kid [00:23.360]Ill sing of some desperate deeds that he did [00:27.480]Way out in New Mexico long long ago [00:31.480]When a man's only chance was his own forty-four. [00:35.840]When Billy the Kid was a very young lad [00:40.020]In old Silver City he went to the bad [00:44.310]Way out in the West with a gun in his hand [00:48.520]At the age of twelve years he did kill his first man. [01:12.080]There's Mexican maidens play guitars and sing [01:16.330]Songs about Billy, their boy bandit king [01:20.310]Ere his young manhood has reached his sad end [01:24.790]With a notch an his pistol for twenty one men! [01:29.180]Was on a sad night when poor Billy died [01:33.370]He said to his friend, "I'm not satisfied [01:37.510]There's twenty one men I have put bullets through [01:41.670]Sheriff Pat Garrett must make twenty two!" [01:45.960]Ill sing you how Billy the Kid met his fate [01:50.210]The bright moon was shinin', the hour was late [01:54.730]Shot down by Pat Garrett who once was his friend [01:59.070]The young outlaw's life is now come to an end. [02:20.890]There's many a man with a face fine and fair [02:25.380]Who start out in life with a chance to be square [02:29.450]Just like poor Billy they wander astray [02:34.080]They'll lose their lives in the very same way!