Billy's Bones Lyrics - Rum Sodomy & The Lash - Pogues

Billy ran around with the rare old crew 

And he knew an Arsenal from Tottenham blue 

We'd be a darn sight better of if we knew 

Where Billy's bones are resting now 

Billy saw a copper and he hit him in the knee 

And he took him down from six foot to five foot three 

Then he hit him fair and square in the do re mi 

That copper won't be having any family 

Hey Billy, son, where are you now? 

Don't you know that we need you now? 

With a ra ta ta and the old kow tow 

Where are Billy's bones resting now? 

Billy went away with the peacekeeping force 

'Cause he liked a bloody good fight of course 

Went away in a big khaki van 

To the banks of the willy Jordan 

Billy saw the Arabs and he had 'em on the run 

When he got 'em in the range of his sub-machine gun 

Then he had the Israelis in his sights 

Went a ra ta ta and they ran like Shiites 

Hey Billy, son, where are you now? 

Don't you know that we need you now? 

With a ra ta ta and the old kow tow 

Where are Billy's bones resting now? 

Hey Billy, son, where are you now? 

Don't you know that we need you now? 

With a ra ta ta and the old kow tow 

Where are Billy's bones resting now? 

One night Billy had a rare old time 

Laughing and singing on the Lebanon line 

Came back to camp not looking too pretty 

Never even got to see the Holy City 

Now Billy's out there in the desert sun 

And his mother cries when the morning comes 

And there's mothers crying all over this world 

For their poor dead darling boys and girls 

Hey Billy, son, where are you now? 

Don't you know that we need you now? 

With a ra ta ta and the old kow tow 

Where are Billy's bones resting now? 

With a ra ta ta and the old kow tow 

Where are Billy's bones resting now? 

(Have a Billy holiday, born on a Monday) 

Married on a Tuesday, drunk on a Wednesday 

Got plugged on a Thursday, sick on a Friday 

Died on a Saturday, buried on a Sunday