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Billy Ate my Pocket Lyrics by Jackie Leven

Creatures of Light & Darkness

2001

Remember that day
We went down to the stables
And that horse next to Northener
Put his long nose out the door
He was looking at me

And Billy bit my pocket
Clean off my shirt
Billy ate my pocket
And we all laughed
We all laughed

And Billy just stood there
With my pocket in his mouth
And from the yellow cotton
A piece of paper tumbled down
To the ground- to the ground

You picked the piece of paper up
Blew away the hay
Opened it up and read the name inside

And a silence round the courtyard blew
And the sky turned a bitter blue
And our friends looked from me to you
And I could tell you already knew

And you looked me straight in the eye
I've lived a long life of lonely lies
And pain replaced your surprise
And in a voice full of salt and ice

You said "who's Jane? - who's Jane?"

And I rode alone to Hampshire
And in the lowlands fair
And I thought that I might see her
But no man can ride that far

No man can ride that far

About “Billy Ate my Pocket” by Jackie Leven

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