Billy The Boy Lyrics - Singles - Terry Allen

Snow White Angel 

On the wings 

Of a snow white angel 

He played steel guitar 

And the drugs 

Broke his brain 

Off into angles 

But his fingers 

Played true to his heart 

Billy (I) 

Ah Billy 

You got diamond 

Sparkle blue eyes tonight 

Yeah Billy 

You got the pistol 

In your soul 

And the mariachi music 

Makes you crazy all ' right 

Hey down at Rose's 

Santa Rosa New Mexico 

Ft. Sumner 

He was born in New York City 

On a cold and a windy day 

Yeah his Momma didn't love him 

Cause she throwed him away 

On the doorsteps of this woman 

Who took in wash to make her way 

And she raised him with a vengeance 

So he left her the same damn way 

Well this hobo named him Billy 

On a train to the level land 

He said Boy you can make it easy 

With a shovel in your hand 

If you can just get to Lincoln 

County 

Dig for gold in the Indian land 

He said Hobo I'm a loner 

I'll take my gold with an outlaw 

band 

And they heard thunder 

In Ft. Sumner New Mexico 

And they heard thunder 

In Ft. Sumner New Mexico 

Loneliness 

Hey loneliness 

You say it's doing you in 

Ah but you still got 

Some playing to do 

And that won't end 

Billy 

But you been missing 

What you been kissing 

For years 

You just can't recognize 

A sacred heart 

When she bleeds for you 

Billy 

You just keep on playing 

Like New Mexico 

Is the whole 

God damned world 

And you got the floor 

Billy 

Yeah but loneliness 

You say it's doing you in 

Ah but you still got 

Some playing to do 

And that won end 

Billy 

Lonely Road 

He played steel guitar 

In a rock n roll bar 

And he'd run to his car 

Beneath the stars 

Yeah it's New Mexico 

Wherever you are 

When your 31 

On the running 

Yeah you might wonder 

But you'll never know 

That mystery boy 

With them sleazy clothes 

His flashing smile 

His lightning hands 

He gonna take what he wants 

On the Pecos Grande 

In the Promised Land 

Yeah Billy the Boy 

He felt the pistol joy 

Shakin his hands 

On the Mountain 

Yeah he did what he did 

Then he run and he hid 

His blood bubbled up 

In the fountains 

Blood bubbled up 

In the fountains 

Yeah whiskey flows 

And the peyote grows 

Through a thousand night times 

A thousand shows 

And the desert burns 

But a cold wind blows 

On a lonely road 

New Mexico 

Billy (II) 

Ah Billy 

You got dimes 

In your blue eyes tonight 

Yeah Billy 

You got the lead 

In your soul 

And you're bleedin to death 

Beneath the dance hall lights 

Ah Billy 

Where did your blue eyes go?