Martin Carthy - Billy Boy lyrics

"Where have you been all the day, bonny boy, Billy Boy? Where have you been all the day, O my dear darling Billy O?" "Oh I have been all the day walking with a lady gay, Isn't she a young thing lately from her mummy O?" "Is she fitting for your wife, bonny boy, Billy Boy? Is she fitting for your wife, O my dear darling Billy O?" "She's as fit to be me wife as the heart is to the knife, Isn't she a young thing lately from her mummy O?" "And did she ask you to sit down, bonny boy, Billy Boy? Did she ask you to sit down, O my dear darling Billy O?" "Well she asked me to sit down then she curtsied to the ground, Isn't she a young thing lately from her mummy O?" "Did she light you up to bed, bonny boy, Billy Boy? Did she light you up to bed, O my dear darling Billy O?" "Yes she lit me up to bed with a nodding of her head, Isn't she a young thing lately from her mummy O?" "Did she lie so close to you, bonny boy, Billy Boy? Did she lie so close to you, O my dear darling Billy O?" "Yes she lay so close to me as the bark is to the tree, Isn't she a young thing lately from her mummy O?" "Do you want to know her age, bonny boy, Billy Boy? Do you want to know her age, O my dear darling Billy O?" "She is twice six seven, she is twice twenty and eleven, Isn't she a young thing lately from her mummy O?"