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Billy Bayou Lyrics By Jim Reeves

    back about eighteen hundred some
    a louisiana couple had a redheaded son
    no name suited him the jim jack or joe
    they just called him billy bayou

    billy billy bayou watch where you go your walking on quicksand walk slow
    billy billy bayou watch what you say a pretty girl will get you one of these days

    bill was big for his size
    red hair and freckles and big blue eyes
    thirteen years form the day he was born
    he fought the battle of the little big horn

    billy billy bayou watch where you go your walking on quicksand walk slow
    billy billy bayou watch what you say a pretty girl will get you one of these days

    one sad day billy sed cried ho ho
    i can whip the fathers of geronmino
    he got smart the chief got mad
    this nearly ended our louisiana lad

    billy billy bayou watch where you go your walking on quicksand walk slow
    billy billy bayou watch what you say a pretty girl will get you one of these days

    one day in eighteenseventyeight
    a pretty girl walked up to bill’s front
    he didn’t know whether to stand or run
    he wound up married cose he did eather one

    billy billy bayou watch where you go your walking on quicksand walk slow
    billy billy bayou watch what you say a pretty girl will get you one of these days

    pretty girl will get you one of these days

    Artist: Jim Reeves

    Year: 1958

    Decade: 50s

    Language: en

    Word Count: 152