The Uncle Bill Roach Band - Billy The Kid lyrics

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Lyrics & music by Mike Slagle

william bonney was just a little boy

he never knew his daddy,his mama died a whore

i guess that's why he did the things he did

guess that's why they called him billy the kid

and his mama cried billy,billy,just twelve years old

wendy cahill slapped you ‘round then you shot him cold

an'he cried mama,mama,i've got to go

they'll never find me down in mexico

they say he killed a man for every year he lived

twenty one notches on his gun an' nothin' left to give

he was a poker player an' everybody said

the last man that jacked with the kid

ended up dead

and his mama cried billy,billy'where did you go ?

that posseys trackin' you through the frozen snow

an' he cried mama,mama,i've got to go

they'll never put me at the end of that rope

but ol' pat garret was hot on his trail

found him out in fort sumner in a two bit hotel

billy never saw the face of the man that took his life

but as his soul left his body you could hear his mama cry

and she cried billy,billy,where did you go?

i pray you made it down to mexico

an' he cried mama,mama,i never got to go

garrett shot me in the back,now my blood runs cold