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My Billy Boy

In the Year of the Red Owl
I was lost in a book
From the leaves of pages
Such pleasures I took
But I lifted my head up
To the clear window’s view
And I put the book down
For a moment or two

And I lost my place
Never found again
And it’s 20 years
And where’ve you been
My Billy Boy?


I’ve kept in that moment,
By the same windowsill
In the world of our fathers
When time stood still
From branches blooming
To branches bare
I’ve turned back the pages
But I’m still not there.

And I lost my place
Never found again
And it’s 30 years
And where’ve you been
My Billy Boy?


Now the same sky roils on
And the same winds blow
But it all seems so different
In the year of the crow
Some pleasures are greater
Some pleasures are gone
But I keep turning pages
On and on and on...

And I lost my place
Never found again
And it’s 40 years
And where’ve you been
My Billy Boy?
My Billy Boy.

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from Hiding in This House of Glass, released March 25, 2020

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Bruce Donnola New Jersey

Writing/performing since the '70s (Folk City, etc) and just never stopped writing. Songs recorded/performed by many, including Jono Manson, John Popper, Shawn Colvin. Albums include A Rumor of Peace, Eidolons, Vaudeville , The Peaches of August, Hiding in This House of Glass. Several unreleased & out of print albums. Performing occasionally now but always writing, writing, writing... ... more

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