Jim Reeves

Billy Bayou(Chords)

Jim Reeves

Key: D

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	        Intro: D A D 

verse 1 
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Back about eighteen hundred and some 
                         A          D 
A Louisiana couple had a red-headed son 
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No name suited him, Jim, Jack or Joe 
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They just called him Billy Bayou 

G D Billy, Billy Bayou, watch where you go A D If you're walkin' on quicksand, walk slow G D Billy, Billy Bayou, watch what you say A D A pretty girl'll get you one of these days
Solo D A D verse 2 D Billy was a boy, kinda big for his size A D Red hair and freckles and big blue eyes D Thirteen years from the day he was born A D Billy fought the battle of the little big horn
G D Billy, Billy Bayou, watch where you go A D If you're walkin' on quicksand, walk slow G D Billy, Billy Bayou, watch what you say A D A pretty girl'll get you one of these days
Solo D A D verse 3 D One sad day Billy cried ho ho A D I can lick the feathers off of gee-ron-imo D He started off, the chief got mad A D This nearly ended our Louisiana lad
G D Billy, Billy Bayou, watch where you go A D If you're walkin' on quicksand, walk slow G D Billy, Billy Bayou, watch what you say A D A pretty girl'll get you one of these days
Solo D A D verse 4 D One day in eighteen seventy-eight A D A pretty girl walked through Bill's front gate D He didn't know whether to stand there, or run A D He wound up married 'cause he didn't either one
G D Billy, Billy Bayou, watch where you go A D If you're walkin' on quicksand, walk slow G D Billy, Billy Bayou, watch what you say A D A pretty girl'll get you one of these days A D A pretty girl'll get you one of these days

Written by Roger Miller

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