(if you know who wrote this, let me know)
11/24/05
INTRO: D A D
D
Back about 18-hundred and some
AD
A Lousiana couple had a redheaded son
No name suited him, Jim Jack or Joe
AD
So they just called him Billy Bayou
CHORUS:
GD
Billy Billy Bayou watch where you go
AD
You're walkin' on quicksand, walk slow
GD
Billy Billy Bayou watch what you say
AD
A pretty girl'll get you one of these days
Billy was a boy kinda big for his size
Red hair, freckles, and big blue eyes
Thirteen years from the day he was born
Billy fought the battle of Little Bighorn
CHORUS
SOLO: D A D
(KEY CHANGE)
SOLO (cont'd): D# A# D#
D#
One sad day Billy cried ho-ho
A#D#
I can whip the feathers of a Geronimo
He smarted off, the chief got mad
A#D#
That likely ended our Lousiana lad
CHORUS:
G#D#
Billy Billy Bayou watch where you go
A#D#
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
One day in 1878
A pretty girl walked through Bill's front gate
He didn't know whether to stand there or run
Wound up married 'cause he did neither one
CHORUS
OUTRO: D# A# D#
NOTE: To make playing slightly easier, you can slap a capo on the third fret,
start off in the key of B, and then move up to C. Subsequent chords:
D = B
G = E
A = F#
D# = C
G# = F
A# = G