Billy Dee Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

Verse 1

  BiGlly Dee was seventeen when he tuC/Grned twenty-oGne

  Fooling with some foolish things he couldD've left alone

  But Ghe had to try to satisfy a thC/Girst he couldn't nGame

  Driven towards the darkness by the dDevil in his vGeins

  All arC/Gound the honky tonks,seaGrching for a sign

  Gettin' by on gettin' high on woDmen,words and wine

  Some fGolks called him crazy,Lord,and oC/Gthers called him fGree

  But we just called us lucky for theD love of Billy GDee

Verse 2

(Three and a half tones lower)

  BuC/Gsy goin' his own way and spFeakin' his own wC/Gords

  Facin' and forgettin' every warGnin' that he heard

  MC/Gakin' friends and takin' any crFazy chance he cC/Gould

  Gettin' busted for the bad times Gand believin' in the gC/Good

  BiFlly took a beatin' from a woC/Grld he meant no harm

  The score was written in the scGars up on his arm

  Some fC/Gelt he was payin' for theF life he tried to lC/Gead

  But all we felt was sorry for our gGood friend Billy C/GDee

Verse 3

(Four and a half tones higher)

  It mAay be his soul bigger than aD body's oughtaA be

  Singin' songs and bringin' laughter to the lEikes of you and me

  CauAse the world he saw was sadder than thDe one he hoped to fAind

  But it wasn't near as lonesome as Ethe one he left beAhind

  YesteDrday they found him on the fAloor of his hotel

  Reachin' towards the needle,Lord,that Edrove him down to hell

  Some fAolks called it suicide,othDers blame the spAeed

  But we all called it crucified wheEn Billy Dee O.AD.'d