{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2504730,"song":"Billy Gray","artist":"Mark Erelli","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11509431-billy-gray-chords-by-mark-erelli/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2504730?type=chord","rating":4.90223,"votes":13,"content":"[Intro]\r\n[ch]D[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]A[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]A[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBilly Grey rode into Gantry, back in Eighty-three[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThere he did meet young Sarah McCray[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThis wild rose of morning, pale flower dawning[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nHerald of springtime in his young life that day[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSarah she could not see the daylight of reality[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]A[/ch]\r\nIn her young eyes Billy bore not a flaw[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nNot knowing her chosen one was a hired gun[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWanted in Kansas City by the law[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Instrumental]\r\n[ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\n[ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]               [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThen one day a tall man, came riding 'cross the badlands[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThat lie to the north of New Mexico[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]A[/ch]\r\nHe was overheard to say he was looking for Billy Grey[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]A[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nA ruthless man and a dangerous outlaw[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe deadly news came creeping, while Billy lay sleeping[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThere in the Claredon Bar and Hotel[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nHe headed for the old church, there on the outskirts[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]A[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThinking to climb the old steeple bell[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nA rifle ball came flying, face down he lay dying[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThere in the dust of the road where he fell[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSarah came to him, cursing the lawman[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAccepting no reason, just knowing he was killed[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSarah lives in the same old white frame house[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]D[/ch]                       [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWhere she first met Billy some forty years ago[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe wild rose of morning had faded with the dawning[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]A[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nOf each day of sorrow the long years had sown[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\n[tab]             [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThere on the stone where the dusty winds had long blown[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]                        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWere eighteen words to a passing world say[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\n\"True love knows no season, no rhyme nor no reason[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nJustice is cold as the Grainger County clay\"[/tab]","plain_text":"[Intro]\nD  G  D  A    G  D  A  D\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Instrumental]\nD G D A    G D A\nD G D A    G D A D\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Outro]","chords":["D","G","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}