Happy Birthday! In Brooklyn: William H Bonney (nee Henry McCarty) was born 11/23/1859 (d.7/14/1881) I'll sing you a true song of Billy the Kid, I'll sing of the desperate deeds that he did, 'Way out in New Mexico long, long ago, When a man's only chance was his old 44. "Billy the Kid," Lomax, _Am. Bal. & FS_ & Guthrie ALSO: In Lomax, Am. Bal. & FS as well as in Cowboy Songs, Lomax gives a Negro blues version without tune. Billy was a bad man And carried a big gun He was always after Greasers And kept 'em on the run.
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