Chords for Billy the Kid - Ry Cooder (How to Play - Basic)

_ _ Yeah, hi, this is a version of Ron Cooter's
Billy the Kid off of Into the Purple Valley album
It's just basically a song in G.
I'm just going to play the chords.
He also does
I _ _ _ [F]
take us into the album to get it, but it's a pretty basic song so
I'll just play it
You know all the way through then I'll explain each one of the different lines of the verse [G] so
_ _ _ [D] _
[G] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _
_ You
It's mostly you know the whole _ chord cycle of this song
so the first _
first first line of the verse
[G] It's a G to a D _
_ _ [D] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _
_ [E] And the second line is a D to a G
_ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ [D] _ [G] _ _ The third line is a little bit tricky because he plays a standard chord he plays like an [E] open [Bm] D
the third string
_ _ [E] And then he plays a [Eb] D on the [F] second string
[D] It _
[G] _ kind of sounds like this _ _
G [C] [G] to C, D
_ Which _ _ _ _ is a G to a C
_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [G] _ D G
So all together that line sounds like
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ And [E] _
at the end he just plays a slide along the D string of the third string up
_ [D] _ That [E] is the G string
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
[D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ You and that's how to play