Billy left Janie in a pool of tears
Crying on her pillow every night
Oh, what seemed like years
Feeling lost and so desolate
Billy got tired of playin' the fields
he's turnin' on his heels
With his tail between his legs
But it's a little too late
She refused to be a slave to the misery
When there's plenty of fish in the sea
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
Billy knows that his goose is cooked.
Still he's hoping that he'll have
a chance to bite the hook
when Dayton throws out the light.
So he's been looking all over town.
she's nowhere to be found.
She's out having a good time.
It ain't him she'll be kissing.
Jadie's gone fishin', yeah
Yeah, she refused to be a