Bonny Billy

Famous quotes containing the words bonny and/or billy:

    “He kicked the ball with his right foot,
    And catched it with his knee,
    And through and through the Jew’s window
    He gared the bonny ball flee.”
    —Unknown. Hugh of Lincoln (l. 5–8)

    “Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda,
    Who’ll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?
    And he sang as he watched and waited while his billy boiled:
    ‘Who’ll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?’”
    —Andrew Barton Peterson (1864–1941)