Billy Bayou Cifras

[Verse 1]
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Back about eighteen hundred and some
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A Louisiana couple had a red-headed son
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No name suited him, Jim, Jack or Joe
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They just called him Billy Bayou
 
 
[Chorus]
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Billy Billy Bayou, watch where you go
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If you're walkin' on quicksand, walk slow
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Billy Billy Bayou, watch what you say
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A pretty girl'll get you one of these days
 
 
[Verse 2]
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Billy was a boy kind of big for his size
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Red hair and freckles and big blue eyes
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Thirteen years from the day he was born
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Bill fought the battle of the Little Big Horn
 
 
[Chorus]
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Billy Billy Bayou, watch where you go
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If you're walkin' on quicksand, walk slow
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Billy Billy Bayou, watch what you say
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A pretty girl'll get you one of these days
 
 
[Verse 3]
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One sad day Billy cried "ho! ho!"
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I can whip the feathers offa Gee-ron-imo
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He started off, the chief got mad,
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This nearly ended our Louisiana lad
 
 
[Chorus]
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Billy Billy Bayou, watch where you go
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If you're walkin' on quicksand, walk slow
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Billy Billy Bayou, watch what you say
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A pretty girl'll get you one of these days
 
 
[Verse 4]
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One day in eighteen seventy-eight
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A pretty girl walked through Bill's front gate
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He didn't know whether to stand there or run
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He wound up married cuz he didn't either one
 
 
[Chorus]
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Billy Billy Bayou, watch where you go
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If you're walkin' on quicksand, walk slow
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Billy Billy Bayou, watch what you say
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A pretty girl'll get you one of these days
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A pretty girl'll get you one of these days
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