Gretchen Peters

Billy 4(Chords)

Gretchen Peters

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Intro 
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Verse 
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There's guns across the river about to pound you, 
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There's lawmen on your trail like to surround you, 
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Bounty hunters are dancing all around you, 
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Billy, they don't like you to be so free. 

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Living out all night on the veranda, 
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Walking in the streets down by the hacienda, 
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Up to Boot Hill they'd like to send you, 
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Billy, don't you turn your back on me. 

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Playing around with some sweet senorita, 
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Into her dark chamber she will greet you, 
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In the shadows of the mesas she will lead you, 
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Billy, and you're going all alone. 

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They say that Pat Garrett's got your number, 
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So sleep with one eye open when you slumber, 
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Every little sound just might be thunder, 
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Thunder from the barrel of his gun. 

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There's always another stranger sneaking glances, 
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Some trigger-happy fool willing to take chances, 
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Some old w***e from San Pedro will make advances, 
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Advances on your spirit and your soul. 

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So hang on to your woman if you got one, 
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Remember in El Paso once you shot one, 
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Yeah and up in Santa Fe one time you bought one, 
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Billy, you've been running for so long. 

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Gypsy queens will play your grand finale, 
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Way down in some Tularosa alley, 
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Maybe in La Rio Pecos valley, 
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Billy, you're so far away from home, 
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Billy, you're so far away from home. 

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Written by Bob Dylan

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