Billy the Kid

[Verse 1] Billy rode hard with a name full of shame boys in the dust knew his kind and his aim He stole for the broke and he bled for the lost every clean little lie had a terrible cost [Pre-Chorus] Sheriff's boys came like rain on dry ground boots in the feed lot guns safe and sound He learned real young how the good men can flee when the rope gets hungry and the judge won't see [Chorus] Billy dust on the spurs justice and hurt They chased your shadow from town to town Billy the Kid you would not bow [Verse 2] He lost good friends in the smoke and the mud names in the clay and red on the studs One by one they fell out of sight some for his cause some just for the night He kept their faces like scars in a book every mile he rode every life he took [Pre-Chorus] But the net got tight and the guns got near lawmen smiling with a borrowed fear Pat kept quiet Pat kept clean Pat set the board and pulled the string [Chorus] Billy dust on the spurs justice and hurt They chased your shadow from town to town Billy the Kid you would not bow [Bridge] Now some say vengeance is all he left some say mercy was his only breath But on moon-burned mesas when the coyotes call you can hear one rider through the canyon walls [Final Chorus] Billy dust on the spurs justice and hurt Pat took the body but not the flame Billy the Kid still rides the name [Outro] Down those old trails where the mesquite leans his spirit drifts through the broken seams Billy the Kid never gone at all just a hard old echo and a shadow on the wall