Tonart: F major
Verse 1
B
E
Billy Horton was a cautious man of the road
B
He walked looking over his shoulder
F#
Remained faithful to its code
B
When something caught his eye
B
F#
B
And then very carefully he'd proceed
Billy met a young girl
E
in the early days of May
B
It was there in her arms
D#m
B
E
he let his cautiousness slip away
B
In their lover's twilight
E
as the evening sky grew dim
B
He laid back in her arms
F#
B
and laughed at what had happened to him
Billy tattooed the word love
D#m
and on his left hand was the word fear
B
And in which hand he held
F#
his faith was nev er clear
E
he took his young lover for his bride
B
With his own hands built
B
E
D#m
E
down by the river side
F#
B
Now Billy was an honest man
E
He wanted to do what was right
B
He worked hard to fill their lives
F#
with happy days and loving night
E
in the darkness for steadiness he'd pray
B
For he knew in a restless heart
F#
B
the seed of betrayal lay
E
One night, Billy woke from
a terrible dream,
D#m
calling his wife's name
B
She lay breathing beside him
in a peaceful sleep,
F#
a thousand miles away
B
He got dressed in the moonlight,
E
and down to the highway he strode
F#
B
E
D#m
he did n't find nothing but road
B
But he felt a coldness rise up inside him
B
Just as the words tattooed
across his knuckles
D#m
E
He knew it would always remain
At their bedside
from his wife's face
E
As the moon shone on her skin so white
F#
B
in the beauty of God's fallen light
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