Billy Bayou Lyrics

The song Billy Bayou is performed by Jim Reeves in the album named Anthology in the year 2003 .



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
If you're walkin' on quicksand, 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 his size
Red hair, 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
If you're walkin' on quicksand, 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 lick the feathers off of Geronimo"
He started off, the chief got mad
This nearly ended our Louisiana lad

Billy, Billy Bayou, watch where you go
If you're walkin' on quicksand, walk slow
Billy, Billy Bayou, watch what you say
A pretty girl'll get you one of these days

One day in eighteen seventy-eight
A pretty girl walked through Bill's front gate
He didn't know whether to stand there or run
He wound up married 'cuz he didn't either one

Billy, Billy Bayou, watch where you go
If you're walkin' on quicksand, walk slow
Billy, Billy Bayou, watch what you say
A pretty girl'll get you one of these days

A pretty girl'll get you one of these days



Jim Reeves - Anthology

Oct 2003

  1. Mexican Joe
  2. Bimbo
  3. Beatin' On The Ding Dong
  4. Penny Candy
  5. Drinking Tequila
  6. Yonder Comes A Sucker
  7. According To My Heart
  8. Waiting For A Train
  9. Four Walls
  10. Two Shadows On Your Window
  11. Blue Boy
  12. It Is No Secret (What God Can Do)
  13. Billy Bayou
  14. Home
  15. He'll Have To Go
  16. I'm Gettin' Better
  17. I Know One
  18. I Missed Me
  19. Am I Losing You
  20. The Blizzard
  21. Losing Your Love
  22. Adios Amigo
  23. I'm Gonna Change Everything
  24. Is This Me
  25. Guilty
  26. Welcome To My World
  27. Love Is No Excuse
  28. I Guess I'm Crazy
  29. I Won't Forget You
  30. This Is It
  31. Is It Really Over?
  32. Snowflake (Remastered - June 1990)
  33. Distant Drums
  34. Blue Side Of Lonesome
  35. I Won't Come In While He's There
  36. I Heard A Heart Break Last Night
  37. That's When I See The Blues (In Your Pretty Brown Eyes)
  38. When You Are Gone
  39. When Two Worlds Collide
  40. Angels Don't Lie

Billy Bayou