Key: D major•
Verse 1
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Back about eighteen
hundred and some
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son
No name suited him, Jim, Jack or Joe
They just called him Billy Bayou
Verse 2
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Billy, Billy Bayou, watch where you go
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D
If you're walkin' on quicksand,
walk slow
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Billy, Billy Bayou, watch what you say
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A pretty girl'll get you one
Verse 3
of these days
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Billy was a boy, kinda big for his size
Red hair and freckles and
big blue eyes
Thirteen years from the day he was born
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Billy fought the battle of the little big horn
Verse 4
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Billy, Billy Bayou, watch where you go
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D
Billy, Billy Bayou, watch what you say
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A pretty girl'll get you one
Verse 5
of these days
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One sad day Billy cried ho ho
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This nearly ended our Louisiana lad
Verse 6
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Billy, Billy Bayou, watch where you go
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Billy, Billy Bayou, watch what you say
Verse 7
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One day in eighteen seventy-eight
A A pretty girl walked
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through Bill's front gate
He didn't know whether
to stand there, or run
He wound up married 'cause
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he didn't either one
Verse 8
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If you're walkin' on quicksand,
walk slow
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Billy, Billy Bayou, watch what you say
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A pretty girl'll get you one of these days
Verse 9
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A pretty girl'll get you one of these days
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