The instrumental that closes the soundtrack album for "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid", returning to the film's mournful main melody.
The words
A slow, stately farewell melody brings the story to a sorrowful close.
This closing instrumental gathers up the mood of the whole soundtrack. A spare, elegiac melody unfolds slowly over a gentle, steady accompaniment, with no singing. It has the feeling of an ending already decided, quiet and resigned rather than dramatic. Placed last on the album, it plays like music for the film's final scenes, after the friendship between the two men has ended in death.
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The words
A slow, stately farewell melody brings the story to a sorrowful close.
This closing instrumental gathers up the mood of the whole soundtrack. A spare, elegiac melody unfolds slowly over a gentle, steady accompaniment, with no singing. It has the feeling of an ending already decided, quiet and resigned rather than dramatic. Placed last on the album, it plays like music for the film's final scenes, after the friendship between the two men has ended in death.
Lyrics on bobdylan.com ↗The same year · 1973
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