Billy Bayou Lyrics - Roger Miller

Back about eighteen hundred and some 

A Louisiana couple had a red headed 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 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 

Billy 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, "Ho, ho 

I can whip the feathers of Geronimo" 

He smarted off, the chief got mad 

That like, 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 Bill's front gate 

He didn't know whether to stand there and run 

He wound up married 'cause he did neither 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