Billy Bayou

BILLY BAYOU
By: Roger Miller
Jim Reeves
Key: D

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Back a-bout eight-een hun-dred and some 
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A Loui-si-an-a cou-ple 
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had a red-head-ed son 
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No name fit-ed him, Jim, Jack or Joe 
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They just called him Bil-ly Bay-ou 

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Bil-ly, Bil-ly Bay-ou, watch where you go 
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You're walk-ing on quick-sand, walk slow 
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Bil-ly, Bil-ly Bay-ou, watch what I say 
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A pret-ty girl-'ll get you one of these days 

Now Bill was a boy kind of big for his size 
Red hair and freckles, and big blue eyes 
Thirteen years from the day he was born 
Bill fought the battle of the Little Big Horn 

Billy, Billy Bayou, watch where you go 
You're walking on quicksand, walk slow 
Billy, Billy Bayou, watch what you say 
A pretty girl'll get you one of these days 

Now one sad day Billy cried "Ho! Ho! 
I whipped the feathers off of Geronimo" (I could whip..) 
He smarted off, the chief got mad 
This like to ended our Louisiana lad (That likely ended..) 

Billy, Billy Bayou, watch where you go 
You're walking on quicksand, walk slow 
Billy, Billy Bayou, watch what you say 
A pretty girl'll get you one of these days 

And one day in eighteen seventy-eight 
A pretty girl walked through Bill's front gate 
He didn't know whether to stand there or run 
He wound up married 'cause he did neither one 

Billy, Billy Bayou, watch where you go 
You're walking on quicksand, walk slow 
Billy, Billy Bayou, watch what you say 
A pretty girl'll get you one of these days