Terry Allen - Billy The Boy lyrics

Snow White Angel

On the wings of a snow white angel
He played steel guitar and the drugs
Broke his brain off into angles
But his fingers played true to his heart

Billy (I) ah Billy
You got diamond sparkle blue eyes tonight
Yeah Billy you got the pistol
In your soul and the mariachi music
Makes you crazy all ' right
Hey down at Rose's santa Rosa New Mexico

Ft sumner

He was born in New York City
On a cold and a windy day
Yeah his Momma didn't love him
Cause she throwed him away
On the doorsteps of this woman
Who took in wash to make her way
And she raised him with a vengeance
So he left her the same damn way
Well this hobo named him Billy
On a train to the level land
He said Boy you can make it easy
With a shovel in your hand
If you can just get to Lincoln county
Dig for gold in the Indian land
He said Hobo I'm a loner
I'll take my gold with an outlaw band
And they heard thunder
In Ft sumner New Mexico
And they heard thunder
In Ft sumner New Mexico

Loneliness

Hey loneliness you say it's doing you in
Ah but you still got some playing to do
And that won't end billy
But, you been missing what you been kissing
For years you just can't recognize
A sacred heart when she bleeds for you
Billy you just keep on playing
Like New Mexico is the whole
God damned world and you got the floor
Billy yeah but loneliness
You say it's doing you in
Ah but you still got some playing to do
And that won抰 end billy

Lonely Road

He played steel guitar in a rock n roll bar
And he'd run to his car beneath the stars
Yeah it's New Mexico wherever you are
When your 31 on the running
Yeah you might wonder but, you'll never know
That mystery boy with them sleazy clothes
His flashing smile his lightning hands
He gonna take what he wants
On the Pecos Grande in the Promised Land
Yeah Billy the Boy he felt the pistol joy
Shakin his hands on the Mountain
Yeah he did what he did
Then he run and he hid his blood bubbled up
In the fountains blood bubbled up
In the fountains yeah whiskey flows
And the peyote grows
Through a thousand night times
A thousand shows and the desert burns
But a cold wind blows on a lonely road
New Mexico

Billy (I I)

Ah Billy you got dimes
In your blue eyes tonight yeah Billy
You got the lead in your soul
And you're bleedin to death
Beneath the dance hall lights ah Billy
Where did your blue eyes go?