The Pogues - Billy's Bones (BBC Janice Long Show July 3rd 1985) Lyrics

Lyrics Billy's Bones (BBC Janice Long Show July 3rd 1985) - The Pogues



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 peace-keeping force
′Cause he liked a bloody good fight of course
Went away in an old khaki van to the banks of the river 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
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
Have a Billy holiday
Born on a Monday
Married on a Tuesday
Drunk on a Wednesday
Got plugged on a Thursday
Sick on a Friday
Died on a Saturday
Buried on a Sunday



Writer(s): Shane Patrick Lysaght Macgowan


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2 Night Train To Lorca - Demo
3 Boat Train - Demo
4 If I Should Fall From Grace With God - 12" Single Remix
5 Japan - Live in Tokyo
6 The Mistle Thrush - Outtake From The Peace And Love Album Recording Sessions
7 Nicaragua Libré - Outtake [From the If I Should Fall From Grace WIth God recording sessions]
8 Streets Of Sorrow - Demo
9 Shanne Bradley - Demo
10 Lullaby Of London - Demo
11 Battle March - Demo
12 If I Should Fall From Grace With God - BBC Janice Long Show October 10th 1986
13 Turkish Song Of The Damned - BBC Janice Long Show October 10th 1986
14 Victoria
15 Lust For Vomit
16 Moving To Moldova - Demo
17 The Girl From The Wadi-Hammamat - Demo
18 Murder - Version 1
19 Johnny Was - 17/11/1989 soundcheck, Gothenburg, Sweden.
20 Maidrín Rua - Outtake From Hell's Ditch Album Recording Sessions
21 Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah - 12" Single Remix
22 Murder - Version 2
23 Aisling - Outtake From Hell's Ditch Album Recording Sessions
24 The Black Dogs Ditch - Outtake From The Hell's Ditch Album Recording Sessions
25 Call My Name - Outtake From Pogue Mahone Album Recording Sessions
26 The Rake At The Gates Of Hell - BBC Janice Long Show October 10th 1986
27 When The Ship Comes In - Demo
28 Young Ned Of The Hill - Dub Version
29 Afro-Cuban Be-Bop - From the movie I Hired A Contract Killer
30 The Last Of McGee - Outtake from Hell's Ditch album sessions
31 Greenland Whale Fisheries - Demo
32 North Sea Holes
33 The Travelling People - Rehearsal Recording
34 Danny Boy - BBC John Peel Show December 4th 1984
35 Hot Asphalt
36 Do You Believe In Magic? - Poguetry in Motion EP Sessions Rough Mix
37 The Donegal Express / The Hen and the Cock are in Carrickmacross - Rehearsal Recording
38 Eve Of Destruction - Outtake from The Hells Ditch album sessions
39 Rince Del Emplacada
40 The Auld Triangle - BBC John Peel Show April 10th 1984
41 Connemara, Let's Go! (Aka Down In The Ground Where The Dead Men Go) - Demo
42 Junk Theme - From the soundtrack album of Sid And Nancy
43 Boys From The County Hell - BBC David 'Kid' Jensen Show June 21st 1984
44 Love Theme From Sid And Nancy - Outtake from the Sid And Nancy soundtrack recordings
45 The Aria
46 Driving Through The City
47 Something Wild
48 The Town That Never Sleeps
49 Sally Maclennane - BBC John Peel Show December 4th 1984
50 Goodnight Irene - Live at the Town and Country, London. March 1988
51 The Parting Glass / Lord Santry's Fairest Daughter - Live at Brixton Academy London 21 or 22 December 2001
52 Sound Of The City Night
53 Who Said Romance Is Dead?
54 The Sun And The Moon - Demo
55 Afro-Cuban Be-Bop - Single Version
56 Garbo (Aka In And Out) - From the movie and soundtrack release of Garbo
57 Haunted - 1986 Demo
58 The Rocky Road to Dublin
59 Living In a World Without Her (Demo)
60 Boys from the County Hell
61 Nw3
62 Four O'Clock in the Morning
63 The Star of the County Down (Live At Brixton Academy 21st or 22nd December 2001)
64 White City (Live At Brixton Academy 21st or 22nd December 2001)
65 Maggie May
66 Haunted (From the Movie and Soundtrack Album Sid and Nancy)
67 My Baby's Gone (Demo)
68 Waxies Dargle (Live In Sweden)
69 Repeal of the Licensing Laws (Demo)
70 Dark Streets of London (Demo)
71 Streams of Whiskey (Demo)
72 Poor Paddy On the Railway (BBC David 'Kid' Jensen Show June 21st 1984)
73 Sea Shanty (Demo)
74 Transmetropolitan (Demo)
75 Kitty (Demo)
76 Billy's Bones (BBC Janice Long Show July 3rd 1985)
77 The Old Main Drag (BBC Janice Long Show July 3rd 1985)
78 Rainy Night In Soho (Oboe Version)
79 Fairytale of New York (Extract from 1st Demo)
80 Fairytale of New York (Extract from 2nd Demo)
81 Fairytale of New York (Extract from 3rd Demo)
82 Navigator (Live In Sweden)
83 Sally Maclennane (Live At Glasgow Barrowlands)
84 A Pair of Brown Eyes (Live At Glasgow Barrowlands)
85 Kitty (Live At Glasgow Barrowlands)
86 Maggie May (Live At Glasgow Barrowlands)
87 Dirty Old Town (Live At Glasgow Barrowlands)
88 The Sickbed of Cuchulainn (Live At Glasgow Barrowlands)
89 Fiesta
90 Johnny Come Lately (From the Album Copperhead Road)
91 Got a Lot of Livin' to Do (NME Multi-artist Charity Compilation, The Last Temptation of Elvis)
92 The Wake of the Medusa (Demo)
93 Johnny Come Lately (Live 1989)
94 Miss Otis Regrets / Just One of Those Things (From the Red Hot and Blue Multi-artist Album)
95 All the Tears That I Cried (From the Cd Single 'My Affair')
96 The One and Only (From the Album 'Electric Landlady')




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