Billy Bayou

Back about eighteen hundred and some a

Louisiana couple had a red headed son

No name suited him

Jim Jack or

Joe they just called him

Billy Bayou

Billy Billy

Bayou watch where you go you're walkin' on quick sand and walk slow

Billy Billy

Bayou watch what you say a pretty girl'll get you one of these days [ guitar ]

Billy was a boy kinda big for his size red hair and freckles and big blue eyes

Thirteen years from the day he was born

Bill fought the battles of the

Little Big

Horn Billy

Billy Bayou watch where you go... [ guitar ]

One sad day

Billy cried ho-ho

I can whip the feathers of

Geronimo He smarted off the chief got mad this nearly ended our

Louisiana lad

Billy Billy

Bayou watch where you go... [ guitar ]

One day in 1878 a pretty girl walked through

Bill's front gate

He didn't know whether to stand there and run

He wound up married cause he did neighter one

Billy Billy

Bayou watch where you go...