Back about eighteen hundred and some
A Louisiana couple had a red headed son
No name fitted him Jim Jack or Joe
They just called him Billy Bayou

Billy Billy Bayou watch where you go
You're walkin' on quick sand walk slow
Billy Billy Bayou watch what you say
A pretty girl'll get you one of these days

Billy was a boy kinda big for a size
Red hair and freckles and big blue eyes
Thirteen years from the day he was born
Billy fought the battle of the Little Big Horn

Billy Billy Bayou watch where you go

One sad day Billy cried ho-ho
I can whip the feathers of Geronimo
He smarted off then the chief got mad
That like to have ended our Louisiana lad

Billy Billy Bayou watch where you go

One day in 1878
A pretty girl walked through Billy's front gate
He didn't know whether to cry out and run
And now he's married cause he get neither one

Billy Billy Bayou watch where you go
Billy Billy Bayou watch where you go