Billy Boy chords by
Joe Ely

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Key: A minor•

Verse 1

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C

C

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What did you see at the fair little Billy

G

G

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Am

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were there pretty girls there my billy

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F

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Maybe it was the colors

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C

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and the lights all ablaze

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C

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Maybe it was face with a candy

apple glaze

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C

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The motorcycle girl put a spell on me

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the fortune teller said she

C

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d tell on me

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everything was spinning' and

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C

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it carried me away

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To a place for a while I thought

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I wanted to stay

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Verse 2

Am

Am

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What took you so long

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G

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to get home Billy?

Did you stay did you stay till you

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were there all alone

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Yeah I stayed till the lights

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began to grow dim

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My friends had all left,

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I couldn't find them

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Am

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I didn't mind at this time

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G

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cause I didn't think

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F

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Am

Am

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that the rides would stop and the lights

would quit blinking

or the booths where the men who

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talked through their noses

Verse 3

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Would seal them selves tight , like a

Am

Am

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rose when it closes

I didn't think that the color

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that was all air

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could disappear so fast and leave

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Am

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nothing there

I never dreamed that the music

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of the calliope

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could change to the noise of of

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men takin the street

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It all turned so strange , it all went so quick

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The only friend left was the

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sound of a cricket

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With my fantasy gone it all seems so real

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I was left there to feel , what

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I didn't want to feel

No one wants to see when it

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comes to the end

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Am

Am

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The still ferris wheel when it quits spinning

Verse 4

Am

Am

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no one wants to hear

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G

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the sound is too intense

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F

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When the midway doses and leaves

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nothing but silence

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C

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F

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C

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When your soul goes swirling and the worlds in a

Am

Am

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F

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spinYourheart will never be the same

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Verse 5

Thats when I got scared And

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thought I was lost

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Am

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Thats when I heard the sword

swallowercough

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I listened like a rabbit and stopped

in a freeze

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That's when I heard a

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fat man sneeze

There was a light in a trailer

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I crept to the door

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And I pressed my ear close

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Am

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and I tried to hear more

I heard many voices but

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they weren't the kind

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That I'd heard in my life

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Am

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or any other time

at the back of my coat there

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blew a cold wind

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That's when the Siamese

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twins took me in

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the people inside I couldn't believe

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They weren't like the kind

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that you see in the street

They brushed off my hat

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and dusted my coat

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And offered me milk that

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came from a goat

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I liked em at once , They treated me good

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So I told em my story like I

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thought I should

Verse 6

F

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C

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When your soul is a stirring'

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C

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and the world is in a spin

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Am

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G

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F

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Your heart can never be the same again

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Verse 7

I told em how different that

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the midway feels

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Am

Am

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When the lights go out on the ferris wheel

and I said to him how you must

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feel all alone

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Am

Am

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when the music quits to call it your home

Verse 8

Am

Am

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G

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The tattooed man looked at me in the face

F

F

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And said we couldn't feel

Am

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right in any other place

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G

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We will be here til the day we die

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when I understand I had a

Am

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tear in my eye

I knew this was true

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and though it seemed lonely

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Am

Am

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It was made for them and them only

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I left them there holding bak the tears

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And told them I had hoped that I'd

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see them next year

They laughed and said you

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Am

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can bet on that

They all gathered around the

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trailer house steps

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E

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and no one was counting any ones bets

Verse 9

F

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C

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When your soul is a swirlin'

F

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C

C

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And the worlds in a spin

Am

Am

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G

G

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F

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Am

Am

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Your heart can never be the same again

Verse 10

Am

Am

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Back down the dark midway

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I imagined the lights

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Shining like torches

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only much more bright

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A little I walked than i did before

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Am

Am

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A little older I walked But I knew

much more

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Maybe next year if any older I look

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I'll run away from home and become

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the fat mans cook

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The world is so strange my mother dear

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It's really a wonder how

Am

Am

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we all got here

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G

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F

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Once i thought I was in my place when I was

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Am

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just a babe lookin in your face

But now for some reason people

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have given me doubt

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It seems some are locked in and

Am

Am

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some are locked out

Verse 11

Am

Am

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The world is so strange I

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G

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can't comprehend

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F

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The one who wants freedom

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Am

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are the very ones locked in

and why does it seem that

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ones who don't care

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Breathe in without gratitude

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and the wild free air

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G

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My innocence has left by the same

door it came

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Am

Am

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and never again will i ever be the same

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But I'll never forget as long as I live

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To be grateful to stranglers who

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ain't afraid to give

Verse 12

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C

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When your soul is swirling

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C

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and your worlds in a spin

Am

Am

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G

G

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your heart will never be the

F

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Am

Am

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same again

Verse 13

F

F

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C

C

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when your heart is swirling

F

F

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C

C

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and worlds in a spin

Am

Am

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G

G

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your world will never be the

F

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same again

Outro 1

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Am

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