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"Billy Boy" is a traditional folk song and nursery rhyme found in the United States. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 326. It is a variant of the traditional English folksong "My Boy Billy," collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams and published by him in 1912 as number 232 in "Novello's School Songs."
One variant of the lyrics goes:
<poem> Oh, where have you been, Billy Boy, Billy Boy? Oh, where have you been, Charming Billy? I have been to seek a wife, She's the joy of my life, She's a young thing And cannot leave her mother.
Did she ask you to come in, Billy Boy, Billy Boy? Did she ask you to come in, Charming Billy? Yes, she asked me to come in, There's a dimple in her chin. She's a young thing And cannot leave her mother.
Can she make a cherry pie, Billy Boy, Billy Boy? Can she make a cherry pie, Charming Billy? She can make a cherry pie, Quick as a cat can wink an eye, She's a young thing And cannot leave her mother.
How old is she, Billy Boy, Billy Boy? How old is she, Charming Billy? Three times six and four times seven, Twenty-eight and eleven, She's a young thing And cannot leave her mother. </poem>
Oh paint me with leopard spots
Hey, why not, if that's your scene
That's cool with me
Oh Billy boy
Oh Billy boy
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy
It's just all about you
It's just all about...
Oh what a day, oh what a day
I think I saw you on TV
Yesterday
Oh what a day, oh what a day
I think I saw you on TV
Yesterday
(I don't like the idea of you breaking down
and I'm the only one who can help you get back on the road again)
Release me
Release me
Release me
Release me
Right on
Oh virtuous one
Right on
Oh virtuous one
Right on
Oh virtuous one
Right on
Oh virtuous one
Right on
How do you like that
How do you like that
Right on
How do you like that
How do you like that