Billy was a bad man 
 ...  carried a big gun,
He was always after good folks 
And he kept them on the run.

He shot one every morning
 ...  to make his morning meal.
Let a man sass him,
He was sure to feel his steel.

He kept folks in hot water, 
 ...  stole from ev'ry stage,
 ...  when he was full of liquor
He was always in a rage.

He kept things boilin' over, 
he stayed out in the brush,
when he was full of dead eye, 
other folks'ld better hush.

Billy was a bad man, but one day he met a man 
 ...  a whole lot badder 
and now he's dead 
and we ain't none the sadder.