Billy Boy
Language: English
Available translation(s): FRE
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.
Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906 - 1975), "Billy Boy", 1943, first performed 1944 [ voice(s) and orchestra ], from Eight British and American Folk Songs, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Billy Boy", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Martin Jahn
This text was added to the website: 2011-01-12
Line count: 32
Word count: 154