Stole a horse back in Oklahoma
rode her all the way down to Arizona
got popped by a cop on the interstate
said I was driving without a license plate

    he said kid reach for the sky
    and I shot him dead right between the eyes

I rode through the sun and the sand and the sage
till them flashing blue lights just died away
a gang of buzzards sang in the sky
everything that lives is born to die

    life and death is a swinging door
    one days it's his turn, next it's yours

jumped the border down at Nogales
took me a room in the Paradise Palace
sold that horse for a case of tequila
bucket of limes and big fat senorita

    I'll steal another horse when the liquor quits
    and Billy the Kid will ride again