BILLY BILL BAYOU [C]Back about eighteen hundred and some A Louisiana couple had a [G7]red-headed [C]son No name suited him, Jim, Jack or Joe So they just called him [G7]Billy Bay[C]ou CHORUS: [F]Billy Billy Bayou [C]watch where you go If you're [G7]walkin' on quicksand, [C]walk slow [F]Billy Billy Bayou [C]watch what you say A [G7]pretty girl'll get you [C]one of these days A [G7]pretty girl'll get you [C]one of these days Billy was a boy kinda big for his size Had red hair, freckles and big blue eyes Thirteen years from the day he was born Billy fought the battle of the Little Big Horn Repeat CHORUS One fine day Billy cried "HO HO" I can lick the feathers off of Gee-ron-imo He started 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 cuz he didn't either one Repeat CHORUS