Billy Bayou Chords by Jim Reeves

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Back about 1800 and some, a Louisiana couple [A] had a red [D]-headed son.
No name suited him Jim, Jack, or Joe.
They just called [A] him Billy Bio.
[G] Billy, Billy Bio, [D] watch where you go.
[A] You're walking on [D] quicksand, walk slow.
[G] Billy, Billy [Bm] Bio, watch what you say.
[A] A pretty girl will get [D] you one of these days.
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Billy [Bm] was a boy, kinda big for his size.
Red hair and freckles [A] and big [D] blue eyes.
Thirteen years from the day he was born, Bill fought the battle of the little bighorn.
[G] Billy, Billy Bio, [Bm] watch where you go.
[A] You're walking on [Bm] quicksand, walk slow.
[G] Billy, Billy Bio, [Bm] watch what you say.
[A] A pretty girl will get [D] you one of these days.
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One sad day, Billy cried, Ho, ho!
I can whip the feathers [A] off a G [D] runny moe.
He smarted off, the chief got mad.
This nearly ended [A] our Louisiana lad.
[G] Billy, Billy Bio, [Bm] watch where you go.
[A] You're walking on [Bm] quicksand, walk slow.
[G] Billy, Billy [Bm] Bio, watch what you say.
[B] A pretty girl will get [D] you one of these days.
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One day in 1878, [Bm] a pretty girl [A] walked through [D] Bill's front gate.
He didn't know whether to stand there or run.
He wound up [A] married, cause he didn't either [G] one.
Billy, Billy [D] Bio, watch where you go.
[A] You're walking on [Bm] quicksand, walk [G] slow.
Billy, Billy [Bm] Bio, watch what you [A] say.
A pretty girl will [D] get you one of these [A] days.
A pretty girl will [Bm] get you one of these days.
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