Main Title Theme (Billy)

The words

A spare acoustic theme sets a lonesome frontier mood, circling slowly as if over open country.

This is an instrumental with no singing, written to play over the film's opening titles. Acoustic guitars state a simple, mournful melody drawn from the Billy ballad, the album's ballad about the outlaw, and other instruments join quietly around it. It keeps an even, rolling pace and never rises to a big climax. The effect is of a long, dusty ride toward something bad, which suits a film about an old friendship that ends in a killing.