Billy Bayou chords by
Roger Miller

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Key: D major•

Verse 1
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Back about eighteen
hundred and some
A Louisiana couple had a redheaded son
No name suited him, Jim, Jack or Joe
So they just called him Billy Bayou

Verse 2

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Billy, Billy Bayou, watch where you go

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You're walking 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 3

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Billy was a boy kind of big for his size

Red hair and freckles,

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and big blue eyes

Thirteen years from the day he was born

Verse 4
Billy fought the battle of the little big horn
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Billy, Billy Bayou, watch where you go
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You're walking 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

Interlude 1

days

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Verse 5

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One sad day Billy cried, "Oh, oh

I whipped the feathers off of Geronimo"

He smarted off, the chief got mad

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This like to ended our Louisiana lad

Verse 6

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Billy, Billy Bayou, watch where you go

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You're walking 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 7
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One day in eighteen seventy- eight
A pretty girl walked through
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Eb Eb 6
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bill's front gate
He didn't know whether
to stand there or run
He wound up married 'cause
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Eb Eb 6
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he did neither one