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Billy Boy chords by 
Joe Ely
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Verse 1
Am
C
What did you see at the fair little Billy
G
Am
were there pretty girls there my billy
F
Maybe it was the colors
C
and the lights all ablaze
F
C
Maybe it was face with a candy
apple glaze
F
C
The motorcycle girl put a spell on me
F
the fortune teller said she
C
d tell on me
F
everything was spinning' and
C
it carried me away
G
To a place for a while I thought
F
I wanted to stay
Am
Verse 2
Am
What took you so long
C
G
to get home Billy?
Did you stay did you stay till you
Am
were there all alone
F
Yeah I stayed till the lights
C
began to grow dim
F
My friends had all left,
C
I couldn't find them
Am
I didn't mind at this time
G
cause I didn't think
F
Am
that the rides would stop and the lights
would quit blinking
or the booths where the men who
G
talked through their noses
Verse 3
F
Would seal them selves tight , like a
Am
rose when it closes
I didn't think that the color
G
that was all air
F
could disappear so fast and leave
Am
nothing there
I never dreamed that the music
G
of the calliope
F
could change to the noise of of
Am
men takin the street
G
It all turned so strange , it all went so quick
F
The only friend left was the
Am
sound of a cricket
G
With my fantasy gone it all seems so real
F
I was left there to feel , what
Am
I didn't want to feel
No one wants to see when it
G
comes to the end
F
Am
The still ferris wheel when it quits spinning
Verse 4
Am
no one wants to hear
G
the sound is too intense
F
When the midway doses and leaves
E
nothing but silence
F
C
F
C
When your soul goes swirling and the worlds in a
Am
G
F
spinYourheart will never be the same
Am
Verse 5
Thats when I got scared And
G
thought I was lost
F
Am
Thats when I heard the sword
swallowercough
G
I listened like a rabbit and stopped
in a freeze
F
That's when I heard a
Am
fat man sneeze
There was a light in a trailer
G
I crept to the door
F
And I pressed my ear close
Am
and I tried to hear more
I heard many voices but
G
they weren't the kind
F
That I'd heard in my life
Am
or any other time
at the back of my coat there
G
blew a cold wind
F
That's when the Siamese
Am
twins took me in
G
the people inside I couldn't believe
F
They weren't like the kind
Am
that you see in the street
They brushed off my hat
G
and dusted my coat
F
And offered me milk that
Am
came from a goat
G
I liked em at once , They treated me good
F
So I told em my story like I
E
thought I should
Verse 6
F
C
When your soul is a stirring'
F
C
and the world is in a spin
Am
G
F
Your heart can never be the same again
Am
Verse 7
I told em how different that
G
the midway feels
F
Am
When the lights go out on the ferris wheel
and I said to him how you must
G
feel all alone
F
Am
when the music quits to call it your home
Verse 8
Am
G
The tattooed man looked at me in the face
F
And said we couldn't feel
Am
right in any other place
G
We will be here til the day we die
F
when I understand I had a
Am
tear in my eye
I knew this was true
G
and though it seemed lonely
F
Am
It was made for them and them only
G
I left them there holding bak the tears
F
And told them I had hoped that I'd
Am
see them next year
They laughed and said you
G
F
Am
can bet on that
They all gathered around the
G
trailer house steps
F
E
and no one was counting any ones bets
Verse 9
F
C
When your soul is a swirlin'
F
C
And the worlds in a spin
Am
G
F
Am
Your heart can never be the same again
Verse 10
Am
Back down the dark midway
G
I imagined the lights
F
Shining like torches
Am
only much more bright
G
A little I walked than i did before
F
Am
A little older I walked But I knew
much more
G
Maybe next year if any older I look
F
I'll run away from home and become
Am
the fat mans cook
G
The world is so strange my mother dear
F
It's really a wonder how
Am
we all got here
G
F
Once i thought I was in my place when I was
Am
just a babe lookin in your face
But now for some reason people
G
have given me doubt
F
It seems some are locked in and
Am
some are locked out
Verse 11
Am
The world is so strange I
G
can't comprehend
F
The one who wants freedom
Am
are the very ones locked in
and why does it seem that
G
ones who don't care
F
Breathe in without gratitude
Am
and the wild free air
G
My innocence has left by the same
door it came
F
Am
and never again will i ever be the same
G
But I'll never forget as long as I live
F
To be grateful to stranglers who
E
ain't afraid to give
Verse 12
F
C
When your soul is swirling
F
C
and your worlds in a spin
Am
G
your heart will never be the
F
Am
same again
Verse 13
F
C
when your heart is swirling
F
C
and worlds in a spin
Am
G
your world will never be the
F
same again
Outro 1
Am
F
C
F
C
Am
G
F
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