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Bad Boy Bill

from On This Day by Alex Hart

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Bad Boy Billy from Brixham
To some just Bad Boy Bill
Passed away last Christmas Eve
Too young to make a will

Some saw him up in Berry Head
And down in Old Fish Quay
But no one thought to ask him in
To stay on Christmas Day

Bad Boy Bill, Bad Boy Billy

His Mother was a drinker
She washed her life away
Mornings in the Rising Sun
She found a way to pay

But Billy’s little sister
She didn’t fare so well
She Flew off like a seagull
At the sound of Seven Bells

Bad Boy Bill, Bad Boy Billy

Some say he used to sleep in Fishcombe Cove
Lying on the shingle with the cliffs to call his home
Lighting fires and singing in the wind
Hoping that his sister would fly home to him

Bad Boy Bill

Bad Boy Billy form Brixham
Made carvings out of wood
He sold a few around the town
Folk gave him what they could

And when the fires inside his mind
Began to take control
He thought he’d fly into the night
To find his sisters soul

He leaped into the night at Fischombe Cove
Landing on the shingle with the cliffs to call his home
Some people saw a fire and heard singing in the wind
They say they saw a seagull fly, heard a girls lonely cry
And saw a spirit rise up in the sky

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from On This Day, released September 16, 2014

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