Billy Boy
Words & Music:
Traditional American
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Where have you been all the
day, Billy Boy? Billy Boy?
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G7
Where have you been all the
day, charming Billy?
G7
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I have been to seek a wife,
she's the ideal of my life.
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G7
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She's a young thing, and
cannot leave her mother.
Oh, where does she live, Billy
Boy? Billy Boy?
Oh, where does she live,
charming Billy?
She live up on the hill, forty
miles from the mill.
She's a young thing, and
cannot leave her mother.
Did she ask you to come in,
Billy Boy? Billy Boy?
Did she ask you to come in,
charming Billy?
Yes, she bade me to come in,
and to kiss her on the chin.
She's a young thing, and
cannot leave her mother.
And did she take your hat,
Billy Boy? Billy Boy?
And did she take your hat,
charming Billy?
Oh, yes she took my hat and
she threw it at the cat.
She's a young thing, and
cannot leave her mother.
Can she bake a cherry pie,
Billy Boy? Billy Boy?
Can she bake a cherry pie,
charming Billy?
Yes, she can bake a cherry
pie, quick as a cat can wink her eye.
She's a young thing, and
cannot leave her mother.
Did she set for you a chair,
Billy Boy? Billy Boy?
Did she set for you a chair,
charming Billy?
Yes, she set for me a chair,
but the bottom wasnÕt there.
She's a young thing, and
cannot leave her mother.
Can she make a feather bed,
Billy Boy? Billy boy,
Can she make a feather bed,
charming Billy?
Yes she can make a feather
bed, while a-standing on her head.
She's a young thing, and
cannot leave her mother.
How old is she, Billy Boy?
Billy Boy?
How old is she, charming
Billy?
Sixty times forty-seven,
twenty-eight and eleven.
She's a young thing, and
cannot leave her mother.