Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Ballad Of Billy Joe, artist - Tom Jones. Album song The Body And Soul Of Tom Jones, in the genre Эстрада
Date of issue: 31.05.1973
Record label: Chrysalis Copyrights
Song language: English
Ballad Of Billy Joe |
I’m the man their gonna hang for killing Billy Joe |
But there’s a whole lot more to the story than they know |
Listen to my side of it and I think that you will see |
The reason that I killed the boy that made a fool of me |
There was a girl named Mary Anne |
And Mary Anne meant all the world to me |
We planned to get married |
We set the date the wedding was to be |
But I walked up to her house one night |
And out there on the front porch they sat |
And then I swore he’d never get away with that |
Billy Joe took Mary Anne and went up to the dance hall one night |
They didn’t know that I was standing back there in the shadows out of sight |
They sat down at a table and she smiled as he gave her hand the pat |
And then I swore he’d never get away with that |
I swore he’d never get away with breaking my heart |
I knew that there was just one way to keep them apart |
Everybody says his mother begged him |
Not to take his guns to town |
He should have listened to her |
She knew that I was gonna shoot him down |
I’ll be hung tomorrow just because I had to kill that little rat |
But I swore he’d never get away with that |
And Billy Joe didn’t get away with that |