Billy Bayou - Burl Ives
Back about eighteen
Hundred and some
A Louisiana couple had
A redheaded son
No name suited him
Jim Jack or Joe
So they just called
Him Billy Bayou
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
Now Bill was a boy kind
Of big for his size
Red hair and freckles
And big blue eyes
Thirteen years from the
Day he was born
Bill fought the battle
Of the Little Big Horn
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
Now one sad day
Billy cried "Ho Ho
I whipped the feathers
Off of Geronimo"
He smarted off
The chief got mad
This like to ended
Our Louisiana lad
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
And 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
And now his married
'Cause he did neither one
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
A pretty girl'll get
You one of these days