Billy the Kid Lyrics

The song Billy the Kid is performed by Woody Guthrie in the album named American Folk Legend in the year 2005 .



I'll sing you a true song of Billy the Kid
I'll sing of the desperate deeds that he did
Way out in New Mexico, long long ago
When a man's only chance was his own 44

When Billy, the kid was a very young lad
In the old Silver City, he went to the bad
Way out in the West with a gun in his hand
At the age of twelve years, he first killed his man

Fair Mexican maidens play guitars and sing
A song about Billy, the boy bandit king
How ere his young manhood had reached its sad end
He'd a notch on his pistol for twenty-one men

'Twas on the same night when poor Billy died
He said to his friends, "I am not satisfied
There are twenty-one men I have put bullets through
And sheriff Pat Garrett must make twenty-two"

Now this is how Billy, the kid met his fate
The bright moon was shining, the hour was late
Shot down by Pat Garrett who once was his friend
The young outlaw's life had now come to its end

There's many a man with a face fine and fair
Who starts out in life with a chance to be square
But just like poor Billy, he wanders astray
And loses his life in the very same way



Woody Guthrie - American Folk Legend

Dec 2005

  1. Pastures of Plenty
  2. So Long (It's Been Good to Know Yuh)
  3. Hard, Ain't It Hard
  4. Car Song
  5. Ramblin' Round
  6. Ship in the Sky
  7. Sinking of the Reuben James
  8. Do-Re-Mi
  9. Jesus Christ
  10. When the Curfew Blows (Curfew Blow)
  11. 1913 Massacre
  12. Talking Fishing Blues
  13. Pretty Boy Floyd
  14. Grand Coulee Dam
  15. Hard Travelin'
  16. Wreck of the Old '97
  17. Sally Goodin'
  18. Farmer-Labor Train
  19. I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore
  20. Whoopee Ti Yi Yo, Get Along Little Dogies
  21. Jesse James
  22. Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
  23. When That Great Ship Went Down
  24. Billy the Kid
  25. Buffalo Gals
  26. Dead or Alive (Poor Lazarus)
  27. Slipknot (Hangknot, Skipknot)
  28. New York Town
  29. This Land Is Your Land
  30. Buffalo Skinners
  31. Mule Skinner Blues
  32. Jarama Valley
  33. New Found Land
  34. Talking Columbia
  35. Talking Sailor
  36. Cowboy Waltz
  37. Go Tell Aunt Rhody
  38. Chisholm Trail
  39. Ranger's Command
  40. Stackolee
  41. Danville Girl
  42. Better World A-Comin'

Billy the Kid