He was a wild one, this Billy Carino Lenore was a beautiful maiden one day they discovered their love for each other so plans for the wedding were made Billy was ridin' with a wild bunch of cowboys Lenore didn't think it was right when she tried to scald him her love couldn't hold him and Billy rode off in the night He rode and he travelled he stayed in the saddle and waited for heartache to ease his friends riding near him their laughter would cheer him they did things just as they pleased They roamed on and on till their money was gone and had nothing to sell or to trade They went on a raid They went on a raid
Lenore had been waiting and her heart was breaking but Billy he never came back her love was still burning so with her heart yearning Lenore set out on his tracks She searched every town 'n she prayed she would find him to right the mistake she had made still young and still pretty she got to Dodge City but Dado was planning his fate Bullets were flyin' and people were dyin' Bill thought he was livin' a dream when he saw Lenore run out of the door and fall in the street with a scream he rushed up beside her not wanting to find her but there in the street Lenore lay Killed in the raid Killed in the raid
Bullets were flyin' and people were dyin' Bill thought he was livin' a dream when he saw Lenore run out of the door and fall in the street with a scream he rushed up beside her not wanting to find her but there in the street Lenore lay Killed in the raid Killed in the raid Killed in the raid