The Ballad of Billy Joe - Jerry Lee Lewis
I'm the man their gonna hang for killin' Billy Joe
But there's a whole lot
More to the story than they know
Listen to my side of it and
I think that you will see
The reason why I killed to boy
That made a fool of me
There was a girl named Mary Anne
And Mary Anne was all the world to me
We planned to get married
And we set the date for the wedding was to be
But I walked up to her house one night
And out there on the porch they sat
And I swore they'd never get away with that
Billy Joe took Mary Anne
And when I to the dance hall one night
They didn't know I was standin out there
In the shadows out of sight
They sat down at a table and
She smiled as he gave her hand the pat
And I swore they would never get away with that
I swore they would never get away
With breakin' my heart
I knew that that was just one way
To keep them apart
Oh everybody says his mother begged him
Not to take his guns to town
He should have listened to her
Because she knew that
I was gonna shoot him down
I'll be hung tomorrow
Just because I had to kill that little rat
But I swore that he never get away with that
And Billy Joe didn't get away with that