Billy Bayou

D A D D Back about eighteen hundred and some A D A Louisiana couple had a red-headed son D No name suited him, Jim, Jack or Joe A D They just called him Billy Bayou G D Billy, Billy Bayou, watch where you go A D If you're walkin' on quicksand, walk slow G D Billy, Billy Bayou, watch what you say A D A pretty girl'll get you one of these days D A D D Billy was a boy, kinda big for his size A D Red hair and freckles and big blue eyes D Thirteen years from the day he was born A D Billy fought the battle of the little big horn G D Billy, Billy Bayou, watch where you go A D If you're walkin' on quicksand, walk slow G D Billy, Billy Bayou, watch what you say A D A pretty girl'll get you one of these days D A D D One sad day Billy cried ho ho A D I can lick the feathers off of gee-ron-imo D He started off, the chief got mad A D This nearly ended our Louisiana lad G D Billy, Billy Bayou, watch where you go A D If you're walkin' on quicksand, walk slow G D Billy, Billy Bayou, watch what you say A D A pretty girl'll get you one of these days D A D D One day in eighteen seventy-eight A D A pretty girl walked through Bill's front gate D He didn't know whether to stand there, or run A D He wound up married 'cause he didn't either one G D Billy, Billy Bayou, watch where you go A D If you're walkin' on quicksand, walk slow G D Billy, Billy Bayou, watch what you say A D A pretty girl'll get you one of these days A D A pretty girl'll get you one of these days