back about eighteen hundred and some a louisiana couple had a red headed son no name suited him jim jack or joe so they just called him billy bayou billy billy bayou watch where you go you re walkin on quick sand and walk slow billy billy bayou watch what you say a pretty girl ll get you one of these days now 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 bill fought the battle of the little big horn billy billy bayou watch where you go now one sad day billy cried ho ho i can whip the feathers of geronimo he smarted off the chief got mad this like ended our louisiana lad billy billy bayou watch where you go one day in 1878 a pretty girl walked through bill s front gate he didn t know whether to stand there or run he wound up married cause he did neither one billy billy bayou watch where you go 