AuthorsDen.com
Join | Login
Where Authors and Readers come together!
Featured Authors :
Gibbs Williams , i Odin odin@aflx.com , i Leanne Bright Cloudman , i Sam Vaknin , i John Henning , i H.G. Potter , i Maria Rushing , i Pamela Wiedenbeck , i Eva Pasco , i Terry Vinson , i
.
.
THE BALLAD OF BILLY THE KID song lyrics by Joel Sattler
They say nobody really won
the Lincoln County War
most folks don't even seem to know
just what we fought it for
Sometimes the law takes the wrong side
sometimes it isn't right
but when the rifles point at you
you got to stand and fight
working in New Mexico
for my board and bread
till they shot my bestest friend
Mr. John Tunstall dead
I went to the funeral
like I spose to do
swore I'd kill every son of b*tch
if twas the last thing that I do
I gunned down the Deputy
who did the dirty deed
and the County Sheriff
Mr. William Brady
Running from the law
and stealing cattle by the rail
though they promised amnesty
they threw me in the jail
but I've escaped from every trap
my enemies have set
I would still be on the run
and I'd be riding yet
I broke free and killed the guards
who looked at me with hate
but no man not even me
can avoid his awful fate
Pat Garrett was my friend
until the bounty they did post
had to leave my town behind
and the girl I loved the most
The men I've killed in my short life
have numbered 21
one for every year I've lived
not proud of what I done
Some call me Hank McCarty
Henry Antrim God forbid
but I am better known to folks
as Billy the Kid
Then one night my ex-friend Pat
came on me in the dark
I couldn't see just who it was
when he shot me in the heart
if there is a lesson here
if there is a tale
when a price is on your head
your life is gonna fail
maybe what I did was wrong
but if you can hear my voice
I swear to God and all that's true
I really had no choice
Some call me Hank McCarty
Henry Antrim God forbid
but I'm better known to folks
as Billy the Kid
================================
Reviews of "THE BALLAD OF BILLY THE KID song lyrics by Joel Sattler"
New Poetry by Joel Sattler