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Artist: Elton John
Canonical path: /elton-john/billy-bones-and-the-white-bird
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Billy Bones And The White Bird
Read Billy Bones And The White Bird lyrics by Elton John on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Billy Bones And The White Bird
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Take the wheel I hear the timbers creaking
Take the wheel I think this ship is sinking
Jamaica seems so far and I've been thinking
Old Billy Bones has gone to sea and quit his dockside drinking
Check it out, check it out, check it out
And when I'm dead who'll fly the White Bird home
I'm not the ancient mariner your children know
And the sea's the field these old Jack tars have sown
'Cause Billy Bones just wants to know who'll fly the White Bird home
Check it out, check it out, check it out
Oh your majesty, your majesty
I heard the bosun cry
Old Billy Bones has washed ashore
Upon a foreign tide, tide, tide, tide
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Elton John performs "Billy Bones And The White Bird", and this lyric page sits inside the Elton John catalog on LyroVerse.
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