Billy Bayou - Roger Miller, Jim Reeves

Back about eighteen hundred and some

A Louisiana couple had a redheaded son

No name suited 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

Billy was a boy kind of big for his size

Red hair, freckles, and big blue eyes

Thirteen years from the day he was born

Bill fought the battle of the Little Big Horn

REPEAT CHORUS

One sad day Billy cried «Ho!

Ho!

I can whip the feathers off of Geronimo»

He smarted off, the chief got mad

This nearly ended our Louisiana lad

REPEAT CHORUS

One day in eighteen seventy-eight

A pretty girl walked through Bill’s front gate

He didn’t know whether to stand there or run

He wound up married ‘cause he didn’t either one

REPEAT CHORUS

Pretty girl’ll get you one of these days