Billy Joel – The Ballad Of Billy The Kid (Guitar Acoustic)

Capo 2
Key
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Versions (4)

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Chords

The original song is in G but to get a version that sounds like Billy, I moved it to C. These are the chord forms that I use. C/D 0320xx Em7/D 0200xx D 0002xx Bm 224432 Bm7 224232 C 332010 A 002220 G 320001 A7sus 002030 F#m 244222 D7sus 000213
[Intro]
      D     Bm7      D    C     D  Bm7             D     C  D  A
e|---------0---2---5--5--2-----0--3-----0--2---5--5--5---5---2-------0------------|
B|-----3-------3---3-----3--3--1------3----3---------3-------3---3---1---3--2-----|
G|-----2------ 4---2-----2--2--0------2----2---------2-------2---2---0---2--2-----|
D|-----0-------4---4-----0--0--2------0----4---------4-------0---0---2---0--2-----|
A|-----0-------2---2-----0--0--3------0----2---------2-------0---0---3---0--0-----|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
[Verse]
          D            Bm                 C
  From a town known as Wheeling, West Virginia,

       D           Bm             C   G   A
 rode a boy with a six gun in his hand

          D               Bm                  C            G   D
  And his daring life of crime,  made him a legend in his time

           Em7         A7sus     C/D   Em7/D   Em7/D   D
  East and west of the Rio Grande
[Verse]
              D           Bm           C
  Well, he started with a bank in Colorado,

          D            Bm              C   G   A
 in the pocket of his vest, a Colt he hid

          D            Bm             C             G   D
  And his age and his size, took the teller by surprise

            Em7         A7sus           C/D   Em7/D   Em7/D   D
  And the word spread of Billy the Kid
[Chorus]
           G               A             Bm            F#m
  Well, he never traveled heavy, yes, he always rode alone

           G            G/A             D7sus
  And he soon put many older guns to shame

           G           A                 Bm          F#m
  And he never had a sweetheart, and he never had a home

          G                                    Asus4   A
  But the cowboy and the rancher knew his name
[Verse]
            D                  Bm           C
  Well, he robbed his way from Utah to Oklahoma,

         D                  Bm              C G A
and the law just could not seem to track him down

           D               Bm             C
  And it served his legend well, for the folks,

                 G   D
 they'd love to tell

              Em7         A7sus         C/D   Em7/D   Em7/D   D
  'Bout when Billy the Kid came to town
(Repeat Intro) [Verse]
         D              Bm             C
  Well, one cold day a posse captured Billy,

          D                      Bm             C G A
 and the judge said, "String 'im up for what he did!"

           D                Bm             C               G   D
  And the cowboys and their kin, like the sea came pourin' in

                Em7    A7sus             C/D   Em7/D   Em7/D   D
  To watch the hangin',  of Billy the Kid
[Chorus]
            G               A            Bm            F#m
  Well, he never traveled heavy, yes, he always rode alone

           G           G/A             D7sus
  And he soon put many older guns to shame

          G            A                 Bm              F#m
  And he never had a sweetheart, but he finally found a home

         G                                       Asus4   A
  Underneath the boothill grave that bears his name
[Outro]
          D            Bm                C
  From a town known as Oyster Bay, Long Island,

         D         Bm               C   G   A
 rode a boy with a six pack in his hand

           D              Bm                C             G   D
  And his daring life of crime, made him a legend in his time

            Em7 A7sus             C/D   Em7/D   Em7/D   D
  East and west of the Rio Grande