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"Billy Boy" is a traditional folk song and nursery rhyme found in the United States. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 326. It is a variant of the traditional English folksong "My Boy Billy," collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams and published by him in 1912 as number 232 in "Novello's School Songs." ==Lyrics== One variant of the lyrics goes: Oh, where have you been, Billy Boy, Billy Boy? Oh, where have you been, Charming Billy? I have been to seek a wife, She's the joy of my life, She's a young thing And cannot leave her mother. Did she bid you to come in, Billy Boy, Billy Boy? Did she bid you to come in, Charming Billy? Yes, she bade me to come in, There's a dimple in her chin. She's a young thing And cannot leave her mother. Can she make a cherry pie, Billy Boy, Billy Boy? Can she make a cherry pie, Charming Billy? She can make a cherry pie, Quick as a cat can wink an eye, She's a young thing And cannot leave her mother. Did she set for you a chair, Billy Boy, Billy Boy? Did she set for you a chair, Charming Billy? Yes, she sat for me a chair. She has ringlets in her hair. She's a young thing And cannot leave her mother. How old is she now, Billy Boy, Billy Boy? How old is she now, Charming Billy? Three times six and four times seven, Twenty-eight and eleven, She's a young thing And cannot leave her mother. Further variants have been recorded, that greatly extend the number of verses and tasks she can perform. An extended version of the song in which the lover performs many tasks besides the cherry pie was collected by Alan Lomax and John Avery Lomax: it appears in ''American Ballads and Folk Songs''. The Lomax version names the woman being courted Betsy Jane. Jerry Lee Lewis released a version of the song on his 1975 album, ''Rare, Vol. 1''. The folk group, The Almanac Singers, wrote an anti-war version of this song by Millard Lampell. This song was performed by Burl Ives and Beulah Bondi in the 1948 Disney film So Dear to My Heart. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Billy Boy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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