Billy The Kid Chords

KeyE CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays421

Billy The Kid by Marty Robbins is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E, B7, A and Em. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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E
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Intro
   
Lead guitar
 
                tp           tp  
e |-------0-2-|-4-------4-5-|-7-----7-7-|-9--7----9-|-7------|--------| 
B |-0-2-4-----|-------------|-------9-9-|-9--9----9-|-9------|--------| 
G |-----------|-------------|-----------|-----------|--------|--------| 
D |-----------|-------------|-----------|-----------|--------|--------| 
A |-----------|-------------|-----------|-----------|--------|--------| 
E |-----------|-------------|-----------|-----------|--------|--------| 
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  | Rhythm Guitar 
e |-----------|------0--0---|----0--0---|----0--0---|---0--0-|---0--0--| 
B |-----------|------0--0---|----0--0---|----0--0---|---0--0-|---0--0--| 
G |-----------|------1--1---|----1--1---|----1--1---|---1--0-|---1--1--| 
D |-----------|-2-----------|-----------|-2---------|--------|-2-------| 
A |-----------|-------------|-2---------|-----------|-2------|---------| 
E |-----------|-------------|-----------|-----------|--------|---------| 
                                                          I'll sing... 

verse 1 
     E                       B7 
I'll sing you a true song of Billy the Kid 
     E                      B7 
I'll sing of some desperate deeds that he did 
     E                A 
Way out in New Mexico long, long ago 
       E                         B7        E     Em 
When a man's only chance was his own forty-four 

verse 2 
     E                   B7 
When Billy the Kid was a very young lad 
   E                  B7 
In old Silver City he went to the bad 
E                           A 
Way out in the West, with a gun in his hand 
       E                          B7             E     Em 
At the age of twelve years he did kill his first man 

verse 3 
        E                    B7 
There's Mexican maidens play guitars and sing 
E                       B7 
Songs about Billy their boy bandit king 
E                         A 
Ere his young manhood has reached his sad end 
       E                       B7         E     Em 
With a notch an his pistol for twenty one men 

verse 4 
    E                   B7 
Was on a sad night when poor Billy died 
   E                  B7 
He said to his friend I'm not satisfied 
E                             A 
There's twenty one men I have put bullets through 
E                        B7          E     Em 
Sheriff Pat Garrett must make twenty two 

Verse 5 
     E                      B7 
I'll sing you how Billy the Kid met his fate 
    E                           B7 
The bright moon was shining the hour was late 
E                            A 
Shot down by Pat Garrett who once was his friend 
    E                          B7         E     Em 
The young outlaw's life is now come to an end 

Verse 6 
        E                 B7 
There's many a man with a face fine and fair 
    E                        B7 
Who start out in life with a chance to be square 
E                         A 
Just like poor Billy they wander astray 
        E                       B7        E    Em 
They'll lose their lives in the very same way 


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Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante