Billy Bayou chords by George Morgan

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Verse 1
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Billy about 1800 and some
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A Louisiana couple had a redheaded son
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No name suited him, Jim, Jack, or Joe
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They just called him Billy Bios
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Billy Billy Bios, watch where you go
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You're walking on quicksand, walk slow
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Oh, Billy, Billy, bye -o, watch what you say
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A pretty girl'll get you one
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of these days
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Now, Bill was a boy kind of big for his size
Red hair and freckles and
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big blue eyes
Thirteen years from the day he was born
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Bill fought the battle of the little bighorn
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Billie, Billie, bye -o,
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watch where you go
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You're walking on quicksand, walk slow
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Billie, Billie, bye -o, watch what you say
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A pretty girl'll get you one
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of these days
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One sad day, Billie cried, ho -ho
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I can whip the feathers off a G -rod and bow
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He smarted off and the chief got mad,
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And this nearly ended our Louisiana lad.
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Billy, Billy, Bio, watch where you go,
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You're walking on quicksand,
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walk slow.
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Billy, Billy, Bio, what would you say,
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A pretty girl'll get you one of these days.
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One day in 1878,
a pretty girl walked
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through Bill's front gate.
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He didn't know whether
to stand there or run.
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He wound up  married,
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cause he did neither one.
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Billy, Billy, Bio, watch where you go.
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You're walking on quicksand, walk slow.
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Oh, Billy, Billy
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Boy, oh, watch what you say,
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A pretty girl'll get you one of these days,
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A pretty girl'll get you one of these days.