Billy Boy - Martin Carthy

«Where have you been all the day, bonny boy, Billy Boy?

Where have you been all the day, O my dear darling Billy O?»

«Oh I have been all the day walking with a lady gay,

Isn’t she a young thing lately from her mummy O?»

«Is she fitting for your wife, bonny boy, Billy Boy?

Is she fitting for your wife, O my dear darling Billy O?»

«She's as fit to be me wife as the heart is to the knife,

Isn’t she a young thing lately from her mummy O?»

«And did she ask you to sit down, bonny boy, Billy Boy?

Did she ask you to sit down, O my dear darling Billy O?»

«Well she asked me to sit down then she curtsied to the ground,

Isn’t she a young thing lately from her mummy O?»

«Did she light you up to bed, bonny boy, Billy Boy?

Did she light you up to bed, O my dear darling Billy O?»

«Yes she lit me up to bed with a nodding of her head,

Isn’t she a young thing lately from her mummy O?»

«Did she lie so close to you, bonny boy, Billy Boy?

Did she lie so close to you, O my dear darling Billy O?»

«Yes she lay so close to me as the bark is to the tree,

Isn’t she a young thing lately from her mummy O?»

«Do you want to know her age, bonny boy, Billy Boy?

Do you want to know her age, O my dear darling Billy O?»

«She is twice six seven, she is twice twenty and eleven,

Isn’t she a young thing lately from her mummy O?»