Greg Brown - Billy From The Hills Lyrics

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No one now knows too much about these woods

They got lost they wouldn't know where to go.

Tribe's been gone a long time small farmers got blowed out

Maybe there ain't even that much left to know.

You can strip the trees foul the streams try to hide in a progressive dream.

Ease into the comfort that kills.

Before i do that i'll grab my pack

And disappear with billy from the hills.

Blood flows back and back and back and back

Like a river from a secret source.

I feel it wild in me; i pitched my camp

At the fork where knowledge meets remorse.

Women sing in me that song from the ancient fire

I just open my mouth and what comes out gives me chills.

I got my song from a secret place

I got my face from billy from the hills.

A 40-inch barrel on that shotgun

Steel traps in a cane pack on his back.

Eighteen years old surrounded by the ozarks

Ain't one little bit of that boy that's slack.

If you're looking for a helping hand

He'll give you one you know he will.

If you're looking for trouble huh-uh turn around

You don't want to mess with billy from the hills.

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Some folks dance cool all angles and swaying hips

Sensual as all get out and in.

Me i'm a hick and i dance like one

I just kind of jump around and grin.

I know a guy he doesn't dance too much

But when he does he gives everyone a thrill

You might run away or suck it up and stay

When he dances billy from the hills.

There's a lantern lit on a missouri night

A woman writing poems by a stove.

She knows the fox's whereabouts by knoll by gulch by yelp

As he runs at night through her mother love.

Her memory to me is like watercress from a spring-fed stream

Fresh and aching as a mockingbird's trill.

She lives in me; i try to look until

I can see for her and her boy billy from the hills.

It's a drifting time people are fascinated by screens

No idea what's on the other side.

We stare at doom like an uptight groom

And live our lives like a drunken bride.

Tonight i feel something on the wind

Deep inside where we have to die or kill.

Something i know i didn't know i knew

I learned from billy from the hills.

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