{"id":4829,"date":"2021-11-28T23:23:43","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T23:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=4829"},"modified":"2025-11-21T06:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T06:01:19","slug":"billy-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/billy-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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1. Oh, [F] where have you been, Billy Boy, Billy Boy, Oh, where have you been charming\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong>[C] Billy?\u00a0 I have been to seek a wife, she\u2019s the [F] joy of my life, She\u2019s a young thing and [C] cannot leave <\/strong>her [F] mother.<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n2. Did she  [F] ask you to come in, Billy Boy, Billy Boy, Did she ask you to come in, <\/strong>charming  [C] Billy? Yes, she asked me to come in, there\u2019s a  [F] dimple in her chin, She\u2019s a<\/strong> young thing and  [C] cannot leave her  [F] mother.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n3. Can she  [F] make a cherry pie, Billy Boy, Billy Boy, Can she make a cherry pie, charming  [C] Billy? <\/strong>She can make a cherry pie, quick as a  [F] cat can wink its eye, She\u2019s a young thing and  [C] cannot leave<\/strong> her  [F] mother.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n4. Can she  [F] make a feather bed, Billy Boy, Billy Boy, Can she make a feather bed, <\/strong>charming  [C] Billy? She can make a feather bed, while a- [F] -standing on her head, She\u2019s a young thing <\/strong>and  [C] cannot leave her [F] mother.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n5. How  [F] tall is she, Billy Boy, Billy Boy, How tall is she, charming  [C] Billy? She is tall as <\/strong>any pine, and  [F] straight as a pumpkin vine, She\u2019s a young thing and  [C] cannot leave her<\/strong>  [F] mother.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n6 <\/strong>How  [F] old is she, Billy Boy, Billy Boy, How old is she, charming  [C] Billy? Three times  six and four times seven, twenty-[F]-eight and eleven, She\u2019s a young thing and  [C] cannot leave her<\/strong>  [F] mother!<\/strong>\r\n\r\n3x6 + 4x7 + 28 + 11 = 18 + 28 + 28 + 11 = 85 years young\r\n<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\r\nHow old is she, Billy Boy, Billy Boy, How old is she, charming Billy? She is sixty<\/strong> times eleven, twenty-eight and forty-seven, she\u2019s a young thing and cannot leave her<\/strong> mother!<\/strong>\r\n\r\n60 x 11 + 28 + 47 = 660 = 735 years old ?!?!?\r\n<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
<\u00a0 RETURN TO THE UKULELE PAGE \u00a0 > GD or FC 1. Oh, [F] where have you been, Billy Boy, Billy Boy, Oh, where have you been charming\u00a0 [C] Billy?\u00a0 I have been to seek a wife, she\u2019s the [F] joy of my life, She\u2019s a young thing and [C] … CLICK TO VIEW SONGBilly Boy<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,133,126,116,117,123,115,68,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-chords","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-songlist-tenor","category-live-tenor","category-love-songs","category-ukulele-beginners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}