Roger Miller - Billy Bayou guitar chord

Billy Bayou

(if you know who wrote this, let me know)

11/24/05

INTRO: D A D

D

Back about 18-hundred and some

A D

A Lousiana couple had a redheaded son

No name suited him, Jim Jack or Joe

A D

So they just called him Billy Bayou

CHORUS:

G D

Billy Billy Bayou watch where you go

A D

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

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 Little Bighorn

CHORUS

SOLO: D A D

(KEY CHANGE)

SOLO (cont'd): D# A# D#

D#

One sad day Billy cried ho-ho

A# D#

I can whip the feathers of a Geronimo

He smarted off, the chief got mad

A# D#

That likely ended our Lousiana lad

CHORUS:

G# D#

Billy Billy Bayou watch where you go

A# D#

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

One day in 1878

A pretty girl walked through Bill's front gate

He didn't know whether to stand there or run

Wound up married 'cause he did neither one

CHORUS

OUTRO: D# A# D#

NOTE: To make playing slightly easier, you can slap a capo on the third fret,

start off in the key of B, and then move up to C. Subsequent chords:

D = B

G = E

A = F#

D# = C

G# = F

A# = G