Billy Boy Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[Am]What did you see [C]at the fair little Billy
[G]were there pretty girls [Am]there my billy
[F]Maybe it was the colors
[C]and the lights all ablaze
[F]Maybe it was face wit[C]h a candy
apple glaze
[F]The motorcycle girl put [C]a spell on me
the [F]fortune teller said she
d [C]tell on me
[F]everything was spinning' and
it [C]carried me away
To [G]a place for a while I thought
[F]I wanted to stay
[Am]

[Verse 2]
[Am]What took you so long
to get [C]home [G]Billy?
Did you stay did you stay till you
were there all [Am]alone
Yeah I [F]stayed till the lights
[C]began to grow dim
My [F]friends had all left,
I [C]couldn't find them
I didn't [Am]mind at this time
[G]cause I didn't think
that [F]the rides would stop and [Am]the lights
would quit blinking
or the booths where the men who
[G]talked through their noses

[Verse 3]
[F]Would seal them selves tight , like a
[Am]rose when it closes
I didn't think that the color
that was [G]all air
could disap[F]pear so fast and leave
[Am]nothing there
I never dreamed that the music
of the [G]calliope
[F]could change to the noise of of
men [Am]takin the street
It all turned so strange [G], it all went so quick
The [F]only friend left was the
[Am]sound of a cricket
With my fantasy gone it all [G]seems so real
I was [F]left there to feel , what
I [Am]didn't want to feel
No one wants to see when it
[G]comes to the end
The [F]still ferris wheel when [Am]it quits spinning

[Verse 4]
no [Am]one wants to hear
[G]the sound is too intense
When the [F]midway doses and leaves
[E]nothing but silence
When your [F]soul goes [C]swirling and the [F]worlds [C]in a
[Am]spinYourheart will [G]never be the [F]same
[Am]

[Verse 5]
Thats when I got scared And
[G]thought I was lost
[F]Thats when I heard [Am]the sword
swallowercough
I listened like a rabbit [G]and stopped
in a freeze
[F]That's when I heard a
[Am]fat man sneeze
There was a light in a trailer
I [G]crept to the door
And I [F]pressed my ear close
and I [Am]tried to hear more
I heard many voices but
[G]they weren't the kind
That I'd [F]heard in my life
or [Am]any other time
at the back of my coat there
[G]blew a cold wind
[F]That's when the Siamese
[Am]twins took me in
the people inside I [G]couldn't believe
They [F]weren't like the kind
that you [Am]see in the street
They brushed off my hat
and [G]dusted my coat
And [F]offered me milk that
[Am]came from a goat
I liked em at once [G], They treated me good
So I [F]told em my story like I
[E]thought I should

[Verse 6]
When your [F]soul [C]is a stirring'
and the [F]world [C]is in a spin
Your [Am]heart can [G]never be the [F]same again
[Am]

[Verse 7]
I told em how different that
the [G]midway feels
When the [F]lights go out on the [Am]ferris wheel
and I said to him how you must
[G]feel all alone
when the [F]music quits to [Am]call it your home

[Verse 8]
The [Am]tattooed man [G]looked at me in the face
And [F]said we couldn't feel
right [Am]in any other place
We will be here til the [G]day we die
when [F]I understand I had a
[Am]tear in my eye
I knew this was true
[G]and though it seemed lonely
It [F]was made for them [Am]and them only
I left them there holding [G]bak the tears
And [F]told them I had hoped that I'd
[Am]see them next year
They laughed and said you
[G]can bet on [F]that[Am]
They all gathered around the
[G]trailer house steps
and [F]no one was counting [E]any ones bets

[Verse 9]
When your [F]soul is a [C]swirlin'
And the [F]worlds [C]in a spin
Your [Am]heart can [G]never be the [F]same [Am]again

[Verse 10]
Back [Am]down the dark midway
[G]I imagined the lights
[F]Shining like torches
[Am]only much more bright
A little I walked than [G]i did before
A little [F]older I walked [Am]But I knew
much more
Maybe next year if any [G]older I look
[F]I'll run away from home and become
[Am]the fat mans cook
The world is so strange my [G]mother dear
It's [F]really a wonder how
we [Am]all got here
Once i thought I [G]was in my place when [F]I was
just a babe look[Am]in in your face
But now for some reason people
[G]have given me doubt
It seem[F]s some are locked in and
[Am]some are locked out

[Verse 11]
[Am]The world is so strange I
[G]can't comprehend
The [F]one who wants freedom
are the [Am]very ones locked in
and why does it seem that
[G]ones who don't care
Breathe [F]in without gratitude
and the [Am]wild free air
My innocence has left [G]by the same
door it came
[F]and never again will i[Am] ever be the same
But I'll never forget as [G]long as I live
To [F]be grateful to stranglers who
[E]ain't afraid to give

[Verse 12]
When your [F]soul is [C]swirling
and your [F]worlds [C]in a spin
your [Am]heart will [G]never be the
[F]same [Am]again

[Verse 13]
when your [F]heart is [C]swirling
[F]and worlds [C]in a spin
your [Am]world will [G]never be the
[F]same again

[Outro 1]
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