| Oh where have you been, Billy boy, Billy boy
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| Oh where have you been, charming Billy
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| I have been to seek a wife
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| She’s the joy of my life
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| She’s a young thing and can’t leave her mother
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| Did she bid you to come in
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| Billy boy, Billy boy
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| Did she bid you to come in, Charming Billy
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| Yes, she bid me to come in
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| There’s a dimple on her chin
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| She’s a young thing and can’t leave her mother
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| Did she offer you a chair
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| Billy Boy, billy boy
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| Did she offer you a char, charming Billy
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| Yes, she offered me a chair
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| She has ringlets in her hair
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| She’s a young thing and can’t leave her mother
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| Can she bake a cherry pie
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| Billy boy, Billy boy
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| Can she bake a cherry pie, charming Billy
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| She can bake a cherry pie quick
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| As a cat can wink her eye
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| She’s a young thing and can’t leave her mother
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| Tell me how old is he
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| Billy boy, Billy Boy
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| Tell me how old is he, charming Billy
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| Three times six and four times seven
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| Twenty-eight and eleven
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| She’s a young thing and can’t leave her mother
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| She’s a young thing and can’t leave her mother. |