Chords for Billy Gray (written by Norman Blake) - Norman & Nancy Blake with James Bryan

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_ _ Billy Gray rode [C] in the _ gantry [G] _
_ back [D] in _ 83.
[C] _ _ There [G] he did meet young _ [Em] Sarah [Bm] _ [A] McRae.
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_ _ [G] The wild [C] rose of morning, [G] that pale [D] flower of _ dawning.
[C] The herald [G] of _ springtime [D] in his young [G] life that day. _ _
_ _ _ _ Sarah she [C] could not see [G] the daylight of [D] _ _
reality.
[C] _ In her [G] young _ eyes Billy born [D] not of [A] love.
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_ _ [G] _ Knowing _ [C] not her _ [G] chosen _ one, he was [D] a hard guy.
[C] _ Borned back [G]
in _ [D] Kansas City by [G] the law. _ _
_ _ _ Then one [C] day a tall [G] man came riding o [D]'er the _ badlands.
[C] _ Flying [G] to the north _ of New [Em] [D] Mexico. _ _ _ _
_ [G] He was _ [C] overheard to say [G] he was looking [D] for Bill Gray.
[C] _ A [G] ruthless man [D] and a dangerous [G] _ _ outlaw. _ _
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_ _ And the deadly [C] news came creeping [G]
to Billy [D] fast sleeping.
_ [C] _ _ [G] That in the _ Clarendon _ Bar [D] and Hotel. _ _
_ _ [G] _ He fled [C] toward the [G] old _ _ church [D] on the [A] outskirts.
[C] _ _ [G] Thinking he'd climb up [D] to the old [G] steeple bell. _ _
_ _ But a rifle ball [C] came _ [G] flying face down [D] he lay _ dying.
[C] _ _ [G] There the dust of the road [C] where [D] he fell. _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ Sarah she [C] ran to him [G] _
_ _ [D] cursing the law [G] man.
[C] _ _ [G] Accepting no reason _ [D] _ knowing that he [G] was killed. _ _
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Sarah _ [A] [C] lives in the same [G] old white [D] frame house.
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Where she first [G] met Billy some 40 _ years [A] ago.
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[G] And the wild [C] rose of [G] morning she's faded [D] with the dawning.
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Of every [G] day of sorrow that [D] the long [G] years have sung. _ _ _ _
And written on [C] a stone [G] where the dusty winds have [D] blown.
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_ _ [G] Eighteen _ words to a _ passing [D] world _ say. _ _ _
[G] _ True love [C] knows no _ [G] season no rhyme nor [D] no reason. _
[C] _ Just [G] as cold as [D] the Granger _ [G]
County clay. _ _ _ _
_ Yes true love knows [C] no _ [G] season no rhyme nor no [D] reason. _
[C] _ _ [G] Just as cold _ [D] as the Granger _
[G] County clay.
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