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	G	C
	Bill Horton was a cautious	man of the road

	G	D
He walked	lookin' over his shoulder and remained faithful to its code

	G	C
	When something caught his eye	he'd measure his need

	G	D	G
	And then very carefu	lly he'd proc	eed

	C
Billy met a yound girl in the	early days of May

	G	Bm	C
It was t	here in her arms he let his ca	utiousness slip a	way

	G	C
	In their lovers twilight as the	evening sky grew dim

	G	D	G
He'd l	ay back in her arms an	d laugh what had happened to	him

	C
On his	right hand Billy tatooed the word love

	Bm
And on his	left hand was the word fear

	G	D
And	in which hand he held his fate was never clea	r

	G	C
C	ome Indian summer he took his young	lover for his bride

	G	D	G
And with	own hands built a great house	down by the riversid	e

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	G	C
Now	Billy was an honest man	he wanted to do what was right

	G	D
He w	orked hard to fill their lives with happy days and loving nig	hts

	G	C
A	lone on his knees in the darkness for s	teadiness he'd pray

	G	D	G
F	or he knew in a restless hea	rt the seed of betrayal l	ay

	C	Bm
One night	Billy awoke from a terrible dream	callin' his wife's name

	G	D
She lay br	eathing beside him in a peaceful sleep a thousand miles a	way

	G	C
	He got dressed in the moonlight and d	own to the highway he strode

	G	D	G
When he g	ot there he didn	't find nothing but roa	d

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	G	C
Billy felt a c	oldness rise up inside him	that he couldn't name

	G	Bm	C
Just as the w	ords tattooed 'cross his knuckles he k	new would always r	emain

	G
At their b	edside he brushed the hair from his wife's face

	C
as the	moon shone on her skin so white

	G	D	G
Filling their r	oom with the beauty o	f God's fallen li	ght

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