Wild Bill Jones

An old murder ballad about a dude named Wild Bill Jones who gets shot and killed.

Tuning is standard D but a step down.

“I was up one night just a foolin’ around
when I met up with that wild bill jones.
He was walkin’ and a talkin’ by my true lovers side,
and I bid him for to leave her alone.

He said, “my age is twenty one
and too old to be controlled.”
So I pulled my revolver from my side
and destroyed that poor boys soul.

So take them handcuffs and put ‘em on me, boys,
and take me to the freight car gate.
For I got no friends or relations here,
and no one to pay my bail.

Take down that long neck bottle, boys,
and we’ll all get on a spree.
For today was the last of that wild bill jones,
and tomorrow be the last of me.”

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