Billy's Bones

Billy ran around with the rare old crew

And he knew an arsenal from tottenham blue

We'd be a darn sight better of if we knew

Where billy's bones are resting now

Billy saw a copper and he hit him in the knee

And he took him down from six foot to five foot three

Then he hit him fair and square in the do re mi

That copper won't be having any family

Hey billy son where are you now

Don't you know that we need you now

With a ra ta ta and the old kow tow

Where are billy's bones resting now

Billy went away with the peacekeeping force

Cause he liked a bloody good fight of course

Went away in a big khaki van

To the banks of the willy jordan

Billy saw the arabs and he had em on the run

When he got em in the range of his sub machine gun

Then he had the israelis in his sights

Went a ra ta ta and they ran like shiites

Hey billy son where are you now

Don't you know that we need you now

With a ra ta ta and the old kow tow

Where are billy's bones resting now

Hey billy son where are you now

Don't you know that we need you now

With a ra ta ta and the old kow tow

Where are billy's bones resting now

One night billy had a rare old time

Laughing and singing on the lebanon line

Came back to camp not looking too pretty

Never even got to see the holy city

Now billy's out there in the desert sun

And his mother cries when the morning comes

And there's mothers crying all over this world

For their poor dead darling boys and girls

Hey billy son where are you now

Don't you know that we need you now

With a ra ta ta and the old kow tow

Where are billy's bones resting now

With a ra ta ta and the old kow tow

Where are billy's bones resting now

Born on a monday

Drunk on a wednesday

Got plugged on a thursday sick on a friday

Died on a saturday buried on a sunday