[dfwgator]

“The Ballad of Billy The Kid” is another great one from Songs In The Attic.

[Political Junkie Too]

Joel often points to that one as an example of his worst lyric writing, a "I don't know what I was thinking" moment.

From a town known
As Wheeling, West Virginia
Rode a boy with a six-gun in his hand
And his daring life of crime
Made him a legend in his time
East and west of the Rio Grande

Joel eventually figured out that the Rio Grande flows mostly south at the United States border.

But it rhymed.

-PJ