Billy Bayou (Petticoat Patter 124 ) Toots Richardson

OPENER - MIDDLE BREAK - ENDING

Sides face, grand square
*Back about 1800 and some
A Louisiana couple had a red-headed son
No name suited him, Jim, Jack or Joe
They just called him Billy Bayou
Four ladies chain across you go
Why turn and chain 'em back, catch 'em left and promenade
Billy, Billy Bayou watch where you go
Walking on quicksand, walk slow

FIGURE

Heads promenade halfway around
Down the middle, right & left thru, turn the girl you found
Flutter wheel across, and sweep 1/4 more
Pass thru, touch 1/4, scoot back and go
Single hinge and then ladies trade twice
Bos run right and promenade so nice
Billy, Billy Bayou watch what you say
A pretty girl will get you one of these days
*Billy was a boy, kinda big for his size
Red hair and freckles and big blue eyes
Thirteen years from the day he was born
Bill fought the Battle of the Little Big Horn
*Once that day, Billy cried Ho! Ho!
I can whip the feathers off of Ge-ron-i-mo
He smarted off, the chief got mad
This nearly ended our Louisiana lad

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Billy, Billy Bayou watch what you say
A pretty girl will get you one of these days