Billy Bayou by Jim Reeves
Key: DD | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

    


Intro
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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
[Solo]
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Verse 2
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Billy was a boy, kinda 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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Billy 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
[Solo]
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Verse 3
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One sad day Billy cried ho ho
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I can lick the feathers off of 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
[Solo]
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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 'cause 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