Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Billy Bayou , by - Roger Miller. Song from the album Anthology: His Early Years, in the genre КантриRelease date: 24.09.2020
Record label: Master Tape
Song language: English
Billy Bayou |
| Back about eighteen hundred and some |
| A Louisiana couple had a redheaded son |
| No name suited him, Jim, Jack or Joe |
| They just called him Billy Bayou |
| CHORUS: |
| Billy, Billy Bayou, watch where you go You’re walking on quicksand, walk slow |
| Billy, Billy Bayou, watch what you say |
| A pretty girl’ll get you one of these days |
| Billy was a boy kind of big for his size |
| Red hair, freckles, and big blue eyes |
| Thirteen years from the day he was born |
| Bill fought the battle of the Little Big Horn |
| REPEAT CHORUS |
| One sad day Billy cried «Ho! |
| Ho! |
| I can whip the feathers off of Geronimo» |
| He smarted off, the chief got mad |
| This nearly ended our Louisiana lad |
| REPEAT CHORUS |
| One day in eighteen seventy-eight |
| A pretty girl walked through Bill’s front gate |
| He didn’t know whether to stand there or run |
| He wound up married ‘cause he didn’t either one |
| REPEAT CHORUS |
| Pretty girl’ll get you one of these days |