Ricky Fitzpatrick: Music

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My one comment on this song is "Don't judge a man til you've walked a mile in his shoes".

Ballad of Billy the Kid
Words & Music by Ricky Fitzpatrick
Copyright 2006, Ricky Fitzpatrick Music

Verse One
They named me Patrick Henry.
Put the fear of God within me,
And threw my ass in the Silver City mines.
Native son of NYC.
The bastards got the best of me,
And took my soul and left me there to die.

Verse Two
They call me Satan’s son
For all the evil things I’ve done.
But I got my good reasons for my sins.
Cause every man that I cut down…
Every time I burn some town…
It brings me one step closer to the fear of what might’ve been.

Chorus
Mama, you can sleep tonight.
Everything’s gonna be alright
And you don’t have to worry anymore.
Dream of me and bid farewell,
Standing guard at the gates of Hell,
And damned to die a prisoner of this war.
You know some things in this life are worth killing for.

Verse Three
I ain’t much for banks or trains.
Killin’s been the only game
That’ll do the job no man alive’ll take.
But ev’ry soul I send across
Is worth the pain and worth the cost.
And I find a little peace in my mistakes.

Verse Four
They’ll prob’ly stick me at the door
To shake the hands of all the crooks and whores,
And bed the demons down from earthly strife.
But I’d kill ‘em all a thousand times,
Cause what the hell is one more crime
When you know you’re already gonna pay forever, for the things you did in life?


Chorus
Mama, you can sleep tonight.
Everything’s gonna be alright
And you don’t have to worry anymore.
Dream of me and bid farewell,
Standing guard at the gates of Hell,
And damned to die a prisoner of this war.
You know some things in this life are worth killing for.

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They named me Patrick Henry
Put the fear of God within me
But I got my good reasons for my…sins.