Billy Bayou Lyrics - Kitty Wells

Back about eighteen hundred 

And some a Louisiana couple had a red headed son 

No name suited him, Jim, Jack or Joe 

They just called him Billy Bayou 

Billy, Billy Bayou, watch where you go 

You're walkin' on quicksand and walk slow 

Billy, Billy Bayou, watch what you say 

A pretty girl'll get you one of these days 

Billy was a boy kinda big for a 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 walkin' on quicksand and walk slow 

Billy, Billy Bayou, watch what you say 

A pretty girl'll get you one of these days 

One sad day Billy cried 

"Hoho, I can whip the feathers of Geronimo" 

He smarted off the chief got mad 

This nearly ended our Louisiana lad 

Billy, Billy Bayou, watch where you go 

You're walkin' on quicksand and walk slow 

Billy, Billy Bayou, watch what you say 

A pretty girl'll get you one of these days 

One day in 1878 a pretty girl 

Walked through Billy's front gate 

He didn't know whether to stand there or run 

He would up married 'cause he did weighter one 

Billy, Billy Bayou, watch where you go 

You're walkin' on quicksand and 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