Michael Martin Murphey – Billy Gray (Guitar)

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Billy Gray Road In The Country Back In The

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Year Of 83,

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Where He First Met Pretty Sarah Maclean,

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A Wild Rose Of Morning A Pale Flower A Dawning,

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Carol did spring time in Billy's life that day

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Now Sarah she could not see the daylight of

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reality

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In her young eyes Billy born Not of the law

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Knowing That Her Chosen One Once And Was A

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Higher Gun

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Wanted In Kansas City By The Law

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But True Love Has No Season no rhyme nor no

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reason

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justice it is cold as the Grainger County clay

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And Then One Day A Tall Man Came Riding From

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The Badlands

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That Lied To The North Of New Mexico

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He Was Overheard To Say He Was Looking For

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Billy Gray

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A Wanted Man And A Dangerous Outlaw

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Well the news it came creeping to Billy fast

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sleeping

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there in the bar the Clair Inn and hotel

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He Ran To The Old Church That Lied On The

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Outskirts

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Thinking He'd Hide In The Old Steeple There

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But A Rifle Ball Came Flying Face Down He'll

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Lay Dying

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There In The Dust In The Road Were He Lay

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Sarah Ran To Him She Was Cursing That Law Man

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Poor Girl Had No Reason Except That He Had Been

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Killed

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Sarah Still Lives In That All The Old White

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Framed House

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Where She First Met Billy 40 Years Ago

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But The Wild Rose morning has Faded with the

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dawning 

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Each Day Of Sorrow The Lonely Years Have Known

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And written on the old stone were The dusty 

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winds have blown

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18 Words To The Passing Strange Say

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True Love Has No Season No Rhyme Nor No Reason

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Justice Is It Cold As A Grainger County Clay