Billy Boy
"Billy Boy" is a traditional folk song and nursery rhyme found in the United States. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 326. It is a variant of the traditional English folksong "My Boy Billy," collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams and published by him in 1912 as number 232 in "Novello's School Songs."
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“‘How old is she, Billy boy, Billy boy?
How old is she, charming Billy?’
Past six, past seven,
Past twenty and eleven,
She’s a young thing, and cannot leave her mother.’”
—Unknown. Billy Boy (l. 21–25)