Billy Bayou Ukulele tab

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verse 1 
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Back about eighteen hundred and some 
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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 

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

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verse 2 
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Billy was a boy, kinda big for his size 
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Red hair and freckles and big blue eyes 
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Thirteen years from the day he was born 
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Billy fought the battle of the little big horn 

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

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One sad day Billy cried ho ho 
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I can lick the feathers off of gee-ron-imo 
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He started off, the chief got mad 
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This nearly ended our Louisiana lad 

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

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verse 4 
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One day in eighteen seventy-eight 
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A pretty girl walked through Bill's front gate 
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He didn't know whether to stand there, or run 
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He wound up married 'cause he didn't either one 

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