Billy Bayou chords by
Charley Pride
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Key: A major

Intro 1

Verse 1
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Back about eighteen hundred and some
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a Louisiana couple had a red headed son
No name soothe him Jim Jack or Joe
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they just called him Billy Bayou
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Billy Billy Bayou watch where you go you're
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walkin' on quick sand and walk slow
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Billy Billy Bayou watch what you say a pretty
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girl'll get you one of these days

Verse 2
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Billy was a boy kinda big for a size red
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hair and freckles and big blue eyes
Thirteen years from the day he was born Billy
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fought the battle of the Little Big Horn
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Billy Billy Bayou...

Interlude 1

Verse 3
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One said day Billy cried ho- ho I can
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C C 
 
whip the feathers of Geronimo
He smarted off the chief got mad this
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nearly ended our Louisiana lad
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Billy Billy Bayou...
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Interlude 2

Verse 4
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One day in eighteen- seventy-
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eight a pretty girl walked through Bill's front gate
He didn't know whether
to stand there and run
He would up married cause
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C C 
 
he did neighter one
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Billy Billy Bayou...
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A pretty girl'll get you
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one of these days

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