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1. Oh, [F] where have you been, Billy Boy, Billy Boy, Oh, where have you been charming [C] Billy? I have been to seek a wife, she’s the [F] joy of my life, She’s a young thing and [C] cannot leave her [F] mother.
2. Did she [F] ask you to come in, Billy Boy, Billy Boy, Did she ask you to come in, charming [C] Billy? Yes, she asked me to come in, there’s a [F] dimple in her chin, She’s a young thing and [C] cannot leave her [F] mother.
3. Can she [F] make a cherry pie, Billy Boy, Billy 
Boy, Can she make a cherry pie, charming [C] Billy? She can make a cherry pie, quick as a [F] cat can wink its eye, She’s a young thing and [C] cannot leave her [F] mother.
4. Can she [F] make a feather bed, Billy Boy, Billy Boy, Can she make a feather bed, charming [C] Billy? She can make a feather bed, while a- [F] -standing on her head, She’s a young thing and [C] cannot leave her [F] mother.
5. How [F] tall is she, Billy Boy, Billy Boy, How tall is she, charming [C] Billy? She is tall as any pine, and [F] straight as a pumpkin vine, She’s a young thing and [C] cannot leave her [F] mother.
6 How [F] old is she, Billy Boy, Billy Boy, How old is she, charming [C] Billy? Three times six and four times seven, twenty-[F]-eight and eleven, She’s a young thing and [C] cannot leave her [F] mother!
3x6 + 4x7 + 28 + 11 = 18 + 28 + 28 + 11 = 85 years young
How old is she, Billy Boy, Billy Boy, How old is she, charming Billy? She is sixty times eleven, twenty-eight and forty-seven, she’s a young thing and cannot leave her mother!
60 x 11 + 28 + 47 = 660 = 735 years old ?!?!?
