The Ballad Of Billy The Kid

Billy Joel

Composed by: Billy Joel
key: G Tuning: E A D G B E
Intro:
It starts off with a cool cowboy horse trot. It's played like this:

E|---------|
B|---------|
G|---------|
D|---0-2-0-|
A|---------|
E|-3-------|

Pre-Verse:
F F C   C F G

Verse:
G Em F   G Em F C D   G Em F C G Am7 D

Chorus:
C D Em Bm C C G   C D Em Bm C Dsus4 Dadd9 D

Bridge/Ending:
In the middle is the Bridge, which is the same as the Ending.
It's played like this:

E|---------------------|
B|---------------------|
G|-----0-0---2-0-------|
D|-0-2-----2-----2-2-0-|
A|---------------------|
E|---------------------|

And ended like this:
E|---------------------|
B|---------------------|
G|---------------------|
D|---------------2-0---|
A|---0-3-3-3-0-------3-|
E|-3-----------3-------|


So the order is:

I V PV V PV V PV C V PV B PV V PV C V PV E

I - Intro
PV - Pre-Verse
V - Verse
C - Chorus
B - Bridge
E - Ending


And thats it! Listen to the song to get the timings and the strum
pattern and the tempos right, because those all change quite a few
times.
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