Billy will come back one day
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lyrics SS music/vocals Ai
This song was inspired by watching a clip from the film deliverance, the bit often referred to as duelling banjo's. The scene has a city slicker playing a guitar going note for note with a hillbilly playin' the banjo. What if the hillbilly became famous!
Duelling banjo's scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFutge4xn3w
Sub-genre of CW, Appalachian?
Comments encouraged.
[intro]
[verse 1]
Billy left, his hair all matted and wet,
said goodbyes before to all his kin.
Rucksack on his back, he left the hill,
why did it feel, like a mortal sin.
[verse 2]
Played fiddle all his life, an' he loved it,
one day, the man heard him play.
Said he loved the sound, went by A & R,
big money for a few songs a day.
[chorus]
Billy will come back one day,
he's a homeboy in his heart.
He'll miss the mountain air,
nothin's gonna keep us apart.
[verse 3]
Picked him up at the bottom of the hill,
in a car as big as a truck.
A guy in a uniform, put paper on the floor
ma boots were covered in muck.
[verse 4]
Drove all the way to Nashville town,
put him up in the fanciest B & B.
Some kid carried his rucksack,
stood standin' there like a tree.
[chorus]
Billy will come back one day,
he's a homeboy in his heart.
He'll miss the mountain air,
nothin's gonna keep us apart.
[verse 5]
Took him to a place called a studio,
everyone playin' like a county rave.
Billy started playin' his fiddle,
the room went quiet as a grave.
[verse 6]
Spent a month makin' an album,
different singers playin' their sets.
He finally learnt what cans were for,
it ain't anythin' to do with toilets.
[chorus]
Billy will come back one day,
he's a homeboy in his heart.
He'll miss the mountain air,
nothin's gonna keep us apart.
[bridge]
Next week he goes on tour,
three months on the road.
Followed by a trip to the Far East,
Billy's only doin' what he's told.
[chorus]
Billy will come back one day,
he's a homeboy in his heart.
He'll miss the mountain air,
nothin's gonna keep us apart.
[outro]
His kin wouldn't know Billy now,
he's not the kid that went.
His ma hasn't heard from him,
he must miss that pinewood scent.
Comments
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I like that he didn't come back. That really makes the song for me. I'm just imagining someone standing on a porch scratching their head waiting for him - and he long gone!
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