Billy Is Lost Again
A song based on me running away from the family when I was very young. The name Billy worked better for me than my own name.
Also based on a little musical phrase that I heard as "Billy is lost again..."
Billy is lost again,
Billy has run away,
Now we are all afraid Billy might never come back.
He’s just a little boy
He could be anywhere
What can we do to bring Billy back again.
There must have been something there
That made him run away
Something that said to him
Boy, you must not stay,
Something said this place not right for Billy no more.
Billy is lost again,
Billy has run away,
Now we are all afraid Billy might never come back.
He’s just a little boy
He could be anywhere
What can we do to bring Billy back again.
Momma thinks it was something,
Something that Daddy said,
Daddy says it must have been,
Been one of the other kids
Something said this place not right for Billy no more.
Billy is tired from running
Can’t run no more
Sits by the roadside
How can he get back home,
Home to his family once more.
A grey haired grandmother
Sees Billy sitting there
She knows that isn’t right
So she take him home again
Home to his family once more.
Billy is home again, home again, home again
Billy’s come back to us, Billy’s come back to us,
And we were so afraid Billy might never come home.
He’s just a little boy, little boy,
We have to watch out for him, watch we say to him
So Billy never runs away again.
So Billy never runs away again.