Billy 4

There's guns across the river about to pound you

Lawman on your trail like to surround you

Bounty hunters is true dancing all around you

Billy they don't like you to be so free

Campin' out all night on the veranda

Playin' cards 'til dawn in the hacienda

Up to Boot Hill they'd like to send ya

Billy don't you turn your back on me

They say that Pat Garrett's got your number

So sleep with one eye open when you wander

Every little sound just might be thunder

Thunder from the barrel of his gun

There's always another stranger sneaking glances

Some trigger-happy fool willing to take chances

Some old whore from San Pedro'll make advances

Advances on your spirit and your soul

The businessmen from Taos want you to go down

So they've hired mister Garrett to force you to slow down

Billy don't it make ya feel so low-down

To be hunted by the man who was your friend

So hang on to your woman if you got one

Remember in El Paso once you shot one

I'll be in Santa Fe about one

Billy you're going all alone

Gypsy queens will play your grand finale

Down in the Tularosa alley

Down in La Rio Pecas valley

Billy you're so far away from home

Billy you're so far away from home