Lyrics to
Billy Bones And The White Bird

This version of Billy Bones And The White Bird was released by Elton John in 1975.

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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

Oh your majesty, your majesty
I heard the bosun cry
Old Billy Bones has washed ashore
Upon a foreign tide

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About Lyrics and Billy Bones And The White Bird by Elton John

The lyrics for Billy Bones And The White Bird are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1975 song by Elton John. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Billy Bones And The White Bird have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Billy Bones And The White Bird - Elton John and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Billy Bones And The White Bird by Elton John in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Billy Bones And The White Bird" means the words set to the music of Billy Bones And The White Bird, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Elton John. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Billy Bones And The White Bird and the lyrics to Billy Bones And The White Bird are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Elton John who came here looking just for the lyrics to Billy Bones And The White Bird, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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