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Gene Vincent Jnr & Billy Kid
Reg Meuross
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He was riding to Palestine, Texas
The cowboys had run out of beer
His eyes were as bright as bluebonnets
Round his neck was an Indian tear
Encased in a locket of leather
And tied with a buffalo hair
To protect him from cats and coyotes
And speed on his strawberry mare
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His black hair hung over his shoulder
And he sang as he rode on his way
Saying, "My name is Gene Vincent Jr
Singing be bop a loo ra i yay"
With his white blouse and knitted blue waistcoat
His chaps and his cowboy canteen
Was the best looking rock 'n' roll cowboy
This tired English picker had seen
Now there's always a chance he was lying
Or spinning a tall Texas tale
But if he's selling stories I'm buying
'Cause there ain't enough dreams on this trail
In a roadside attraction in Echo
She talked about Billy the Kid
She said he was kin thanks to Grandma
And she told me the things Billy did
She said he didn't get killed in that gunfight
Garrett buried another poor Bill
And he lived here until he was ninety
In a cedarwood house on the hill
Now there's always a chance she was lying
Or spinning a tall Texas tale
But if she's selling stories I'm buying
'Cause there ain't enough dreams on this trail
His grey hair hung over his shoulder
And he sang as he rode on his way
When Billy the Kid drew his welfare
Singing be bop a loo ra i yay
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