[ti:Billy's Bones] [ar:The Pogues] [al:Rum Sodomy & The Lash] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Billy's Bones - The Pogues [00:07.61]Written by:Shane Macgowan [00:15.22]Billy ran around with the rare old crew [00:16.71]And he knew an Arsenal from Tottenham blue [00:18.21]We'd be a darn sight better of if we knew [00:20.11]Where Billy's bones are resting now [00:21.55]Billy saw a copper and he hit him in the knee [00:24.04]And he took him down from six foot to five foot three [00:24.63]Then he hit him fair and square in the do-re-mi [00:25.90]That copper won't be having any family [00:28.71]Hey Billy son where are you now [00:29.78]Don't you know that we need you now [00:31.53]With a ra-ta-ta and the old kow-tow [00:32.79]Where are Billy's bones resting now [00:34.71]Billy went away with the peace-keeping force [00:36.46]'Cause he liked a bloody good fight of course [00:38.21]Went away in an old khaki van to the banks of the river Jordan [00:41.45]Billy saw the Arabs and he had 'em on the run [00:43.08]When he got 'em in the range of his sub-machine gun [00:44.64]Then he had the Israelis in his sights went a ra-ta-ta [00:46.88]And they ran like Shiites [00:48.13]Hey Billy son where are you now [00:49.81]Don't you know that we need you now [00:51.50]With a ra-ta-ta and the old kow-tow [00:52.87]Where are Billy's bones resting now [01:08.04]Hey Billy son where are you now [01:09.79]Don't you know that we need you now [01:11.46]With a ra-ta-ta and the old kow-tow [01:13.24]Where are Billy's bones resting now [01:14.74]One night Billy had a rare old time [01:16.49]Laughing and singing on the Lebanon line [01:18.19]Came back to camp not looking too pretty [01:19.87]Never even got to see the Holy City [01:22.76]Now Billy's out there in the desert sun [01:27.07]And his mother cries when the morning comes [01:32.28]And there's mothers crying all over this world [01:37.85]For their poor dead darling boys and girls [01:39.95]Hey Billy son where are you now [01:41.45]Don't you know that we need you now [01:43.13]With a ra-ta-ta and the old kow-tow [01:44.85]Where are Billy's bones resting now [01:46.40]Have a Billy holiday [01:48.02]Born on a Monday [01:49.78]Married on a Tuesday [01:51.57]Drunk on a Wednesday [01:53.01]Got plugged on a Thursday [01:54.57]Sick on a Friday [01:56.25]Died on a Saturday [01:57.89]Buried on a Sunday