Billy Bayou-Roger Miller

[ti:Billy Bayou] [ar:Roger Miller] [al:Country Kings , Volume Four - Miller, Haggard, Anderson] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Billy Bayou - Roger Miller [00:05.72]Back about eighteen hundred and some [00:08.32]A Louisiana couple had a redheaded son [00:11.24]No name suited him Jim Jack or Joe [00:13.99]So they just called him Billy Bayou [00:15.93] [00:16.74]Billy Billy Bayou watch where you go [00:19.59]You're walking on quicksand walk slow [00:22.30]Billy Billy Bayou watch what you say [00:25.27]A pretty girl'll get you one of these days [00:27.63] [00:28.20]Now bill was a boy kind of big for his size [00:30.94]Red hair and freckles and big blue eyes [00:33.78]Thirteen years from the day he was born [00:36.63]Bill fought the battle of the little big horn [00:38.98] [00:39.53]Billy Billy Bayou watch where you go [00:42.27]You're walking on quicksand walk slow [00:44.46] [00:45.01]Billy Billy Bayou watch what you say [00:47.87]A pretty girl'll get you one of these days [00:50.16] [01:02.07]Now one sad day Billy cried "Ho ho [01:04.79]I whipped the feathers off of Geronimo" [01:06.76] [01:07.54]He smarted off the chief got mad [01:10.35]This like to ended our Louisiana lad [01:12.71] [01:13.26]Billy Billy Bayou watch where you go [01:16.02]You're walking on quicksand walk slow [01:18.37] [01:18.88]Billy Billy Bayou watch what you say [01:21.72]A pretty girl'll get you one of these days [01:24.77]And one day in eighteen seventy-eight [01:26.31] [01:27.42]A pretty girl walked through bill's front gate [01:29.61] [01:30.20]He didn't know whether to stand there or run [01:33.11]He wound up married 'cause he did neither one [01:35.91]Billy Billy Bayou watch where you go [01:38.70]You're walking on quicksand walk slow [01:41.47]Billy Billy Bayou watch what you say [01:44.47]A pretty girl'll get you one of these days