Jim Reeves "Billy Bayou" |
(Roger Miller) Back about eighteen hundred some A Louisinan couple hade a redheaded son No name suited him, Jim, Jack or Joe They just called him Billy Bayou. Chorus: Billy, Billy Bayou watch where you go Your walking on quicksand, walk slow. Billy, Billy Bayou watch what you say A pretty girl'll get you one of these days. --- Instrumental --- Billy was a boy kinda big for his size Red hair and freckles and big blue eyes Thirteen years form the day he was born Bill fought the battle of the Little Big Horn. Chorus: Billy, Billy Bayou watch where you go Your walking on quicksand, walk slow. Billy, Billy Bayou watch what you say A pretty girl'll get you one of these days. --- Instrumental --- One sad day billy cried ho! ho! I can whip the fathers off of Geronmino He smarted off, the cheif got mad This nearly ended our Louisiana lad. Chorus: Billy, Billy Bayou watch where you go Your walking on quicksand, walk slow. Billy, Billy Bayou watch what you say A pretty girl'll get you one of these days. --- Instrumental --- One day in eighteen-seventy-eight A pritty girl walked through Bill's front gate He did'nt know whether to stand there or run He wound up marred 'cause he did eather one. Chorus: Billy, Billy Bayou watch where you go Your walking on quicksand, walk slow. Billy, Billy Bayou watch what you say A pretty girl'll get you one of these days. Pretty girl'll get you one of these days... Lyric from www.lyricmania.com |