Our Whole World

Billy Boy

The original English folk song - My Boy Billy, - was collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams. He published it in 1912 as a school song.

C
Oh------ Where have you been Billy Boy, Billy Boy

G7
Oh Where have you been charming Billy?

C
I have been to seek a wife, she’s the joy of my life

F C G7 C
She’s a young thing and cannot leave her mother

C
Did she bid you “come in”, Billy Boy, Billy Boy

G7
Did she bid you come in tell me Billy

C
Yes she bade me come in there’s a dimple on her chin

F C G7 C
She’s a young thing and cannot leave her mother

C
Can she bake a cherry pie, Billy Boy, Billy Boy

G7
Can she bake a cherry pie, tell me, Billy

C
She can bake a cherry pie, there’s a twinkle in her eye

F C G7 C
She’s a young thing and cannot leave her mother