Billy's Bones

Billy ran around with the rare old crew

And he knew an Arsenal from Tottenham blue

Darn sight better off if we knew

Where Billy's bones are resting now

Billy saw a copper and he hit him in the knee

Took him down from six foot to five-foot-three

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 loved a bloody good fight of course

Went away in a big khaki van

To the banks of the Willie 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 Israelis in his sights

Went a ra-ta-ta and they ran like shites

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 (Have a Billy holiday)

Where are Billy's bones resting now?

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