Thin and long He was a ticking bomb Gutter Mouth Bred in the deeper South Billy Bones As he was always known Was a horror of a human being Hand grenades Rockets and razor blades Fifty tins Of nitro glycerine Billy Bones Spent all his time a lone Lost in pyrotechnic dreams Billy Bones What an awful creature (Billy Bones...) He's so full of sin Billy Bones Better get the preacher 'Cause when the sun goes down Billy does evil things Breaking news Billy has blown his fuse Out of hell Into a padded cell Billy Bones Throwing sticks and stones When the doctors came to take him in (What a naughty boy...) Billy bones What an awful creature He's so full of sin Billy Bones Better get the preacher Cause when the sun goes down Billy does evil things Billy Bones What an awful creature He's so full of sin Billy Bones Better get the preacher Cause when the sun goes down Billy does evil things Cause when the sun goes down Billy does evil things Cause when the sun goes down Billy does evil things (What an awful creature) Billy Bones (Better get the preacher) Billy Bones (What an awful creature) Billy Bones