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Hot Shot Billy Boyd by Hoy Booth

The ballad of legendary Lancashire sharpshooter Billy Boyd, from scallywag pea shooter to pistol-packing papa! His birthplace, Forton, near Preston, has become a shrine to his memory, with gift shops galore and home to the annual 'Boyd-Fest' convention. Hoy is accompanied on this recording by musicians from The Preston Mushroom Ketchup Works Band.


Oh ‘e’s allus bin in trouble, ever since a li’le wee lad

Pointing it at everyone, according to his dad

Chucked out of the nursery

For showing it to all of class 2D

Oh where I come from you can’t avoid

Hot Shot Billy Boyd


Oh, if it weren’t just a hobby, oh, the medals he’d of won

Allus hangin’ out with it, according to his mum

Every Monday morning, back at school

You’d even hear screams from the swimming pool

Oh, where I come from you can’t avoid

Hot Shot Billy Boyd


CHORUS

Oh, such a quiet cutie

When he was in his nappy

Now look at him, like a super crim’

Allus trigger-happy

He started off with a shooter ‘n’ pea

Now check out him behind that tree

Oh, where I come from you can’t avoid

Hot Shot Billy Boyd


Oh, pistol-packin’ hot-shot, there really is no other

He could easily take your eye out, says his blinkin’ little brother

Even on the rounds in his postal job

He’d stick it through the letter box and scare the dog

Oh, where I come from you can’t avoid

Hot Shot Billy Boyd


CHORUS


Oh, where I come from you can’t avoid

Hot Shot Billy Boyd  X3


London, Paris, New York, Munich

Watch out for Billy Boyd