Billy Bayou

[Verse 1]
Back about eighteen hundred some
A Louisiana couple had a red headed son
No name fitted 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

[Verse 2]
Billy was a boy kind big for his size
Red hair and freckles and big blue eyes
Thirteen years from the day he was born
Billy fought the battle of Little Big Horn

[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

[Verse 3]
One sad day Billy criеd, "ho! ho!"
I can whip the feathers off Gеronimo
He got smart and the chief got mad
Would like to have ended our Louisiana lad

[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

[Verse 4]
One day in 1878
A pretty girl walked through Billy's front gate
He didn't know whether to cry out or run
And now he's married 'cause he did neither one

[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