Billy

Sherriff Pat Garrett

Hunts down bad Billy the Kid.

They used to be friends.

This haiku encompasses the tracks "Billy 1," "Billy 4" and "Billy 7" from the soundtrack album "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" for the movie by Sam Peckinpah. Each song sounds substantially different, but the lyrics, however they vary, are more or less the same: Billy the Kid is on the run from his old friend and fellow outlaw Pat Garrett, who now works for the "law," which is in thrall to the big business interests that want Billy out of their hair.

I can't find decent recordings of these songs, so here is Bob's first scene in the film. As you might expect from Peckinpah, there are shootings, blood and one big knife going through a bad guy's neck.

The 'Billy' songs from 'Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid'

The Goldberg Variations of the Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett saga, all from the 1973 soundtrack album to Sam Peckinpah's "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid."

Billy

Bob sets grim tone for
Billy the Kid’s elegy
And for Pat Garrett’s.


Billy 1

Bob tells the story
Of Pat Garrett and Billy,
Once friends, now fighting


Billy 4

He's Billy the Kid,
A saint and a sinner, now
Dying with the West


Billy 7

Bob tells his sad tale
Of Billy and Pat, his friend.
They killed each other.