Billy Boy- Marie (MO) 1914 Belden B
[From Ballads and Songs collected by the Missouri Folk-lore Society- edited Belden 1940.
R. Matteson 2014]
B. 'Billy Boy.' Contributed by Sister Helen Marie, a student at the University of Missouri in 1914.
Where have you been, Billy boy, Billy boy,
Where have you been, charming Billy?'
'Oh, I've been to see my wife,
She's the joy of m life,
She's a young thing and cannot leave her mother.'
Did she ask you to come in?'
'Yes, she asked me to come in,
She's a dimple in her chin,'
'Did she set for you a chair?'
'Yes, she set for me a chair
While she combed her golden hair.'
'Can she make a cherry pie?'
'She can make a cherry pie
Quick's a cat can wink its eye.'
'Can she make a feather bed?'
'She can make a feather bed,
That's as high as your head.'
'Don't you wish she would come home?'
'Yes, I wish she would come home,
Never, never more to roam.'