Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Billy Bones And The White Bird , by - Elton John. Release date: 31.12.1974
Song language: English
Billy Bones And The White Bird |
| Take the wheel I hear the timbers creaking |
| Take the wheel I think this ship is sinking |
| Jamaica seems so far and I’ve been thinking |
| Old Billy Bones has gone to sea and quit his dockside drinking |
| Check it out, check it out, check it out |
| And when I’m dead who’ll fly the White Bird home |
| I’m not the ancient mariner your children know |
| And the sea’s the field these old jack tars have sown |
| `Cause Billy Bones just wants to know who’ll fly the White Bird home |
| Oh your majesty, your majesty |
| I heard the bosun cry |
| Old Billy Bones has washed ashore |
| Upon a foreign tide |