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I'm the man their gonna hang for killin' Billy Joe
But there's a whole lot more to the story than they know
Listen to my side of it and i think that you will see
The reason why i killed to boy that made a fool of me

There was a girl named Mary Anne
And Mary Anne was all the world to me
We planned to get married
And had set the date for the wedding was to be

But i walked up to her house one night
And out there on the porch they sat
And i swore they'd never get away with that

Billy Joe took Mary Anne to the dance hall one night
They didn't know i was standin out there in the shadows out of sight
They sat down at a table and she smiled as he gave her hand the pat
And I swore they would never get away with that

I swore they would never get away with breakin my heart
Thought that they were foolin me by being so smart

Oh everybody says his mother begged him not to take his guns to town
He should have listened to her because he knew that i was gonna shoot him down
I'll be hung tomorrow because I had to kill the little rat


But I swore they would never get away with that
And Billy Joe didn't get away with that

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