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

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Chords

This is a kick-ass song for piano, but on guitar is sounds quite good. These are the base chords and such, listen to the song to get down the little licks. Intro: It starts off with a cool cowboy horse trot. It's played like this:

e|---------|
B|---------|
G|---------|
D|---0-2-0-|
A|---------|
E|-3-------|

Pre-Verse: F F C C F G Verse: G Em F G Em F C D G Em F C G Am7 D Chorus: C D Em Bm C C G C D Em Bm C Dsus4 Dadd9 D Bridge/Ending: In the middle is the Bridge, which is the same as the Ending. It's played like this:

e|---------------------|
B|---------------------|
G|-----0-0---2-0-------|
D|-0-2-----2-----2-2-0-|
A|---------------------|
E|---------------------|

And ended like this:
e|---------------------|
B|---------------------|
G|---------------------|
D|---------------2-0---|
A|---0-3-3-3-0-------3-|
E|-3-----------3-------|

So the order is: I V PV V PV V PV C V PV B PV V PV C V PV E I - Intro PV - Pre-Verse V - Verse C - Chorus B - Bridge E - Ending And thats it! Listen to the song to get the timings and the strum pattern and the tempos right, because those all change quite a few times.