Billy, Billy Bayou, watch where you go
Billy fought the battle of the Little Big Horn
You're walkin' on quicksand and walk slow
Billy, Billy Bayou watch what you say
Billy, Billy Bayou, watch where you go
One sad day Billy cried, "Ho, ho
He smarted off, the chief got mad
He didn't know whether to stand there and run
A pretty girl'll get you one of these days
Billy, Billy Bayou, watch what you say
I can whip the feathers of Geronimo"
A pretty girl'll get you one of these days
You're walkin' on quicksand and walk slow
That like, ended our Louisiana lad
You're walkin' on quicksand and walk slow
A pretty girl walked through Bill's front gate
No name suited him, Jim, Jack or Joe
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, Billy Bayou, watch where you go
He wound up married 'cause he did neither one
Billy, Billy Bayou, watch what you say
Thirteen years from the day he was born
One day in 1878
Billy was a boy kinda big for a size
Billy, Billy Bayou, watch where you go
Red hair and freckles and big blue eyes
So they just called him Billy Bayou
