Billy ran around with the rare old crew   And he knew an Arsenal from Tottenham blue   We'd be a darn sight better of if we knew   Where Billy's bones are resting now      Billy saw a copper and he hit him in the knee   And he took him down from six foot to five foot three   Then he hit him fair and square in the do re mi   That copper won't be having any family      Hey Billy, son, where are you now?   Don't you know that we need you now?   With a ra ta ta and the old kow tow   Where are Billy's bones resting now?      Billy went away with the peacekeeping force   'Cause he liked a bloody good fight of course   Went away in a big khaki van   To the banks of the willy Jordan      Billy saw the Arabs and he had 'em on the run   When he got 'em in the range of his sub-machine gun   Then he had the Israelis in his sights   Went a ra ta ta and they ran like Shiites      Hey Billy, son, where are you now?   Don't you know that we need you now?   With a ra ta ta and the old kow tow   Where are Billy's bones resting now?      Hey Billy, son, where are you now?   Don't you know that we need you now?   With a ra ta ta and the old kow tow   Where are Billy's bones resting now?      One night Billy had a rare old time   Laughing and singing on the Lebanon line   Came back to camp not looking too pretty   Never even got to see the Holy City      Now Billy's out there in the desert sun   And his mother cries when the morning comes   And there's mothers crying all over this world   For their poor dead darling boys and girls      Hey Billy, son, where are you now?   Don't you know that we need you now?   With a ra ta ta and the old kow tow   Where are Billy's bones resting now?      With a ra ta ta and the old kow tow   Where are Billy's bones resting now?   (Have a Billy holiday, born on a Monday)   Married on a Tuesday, drunk on a Wednesday   Got plugged on a Thursday, sick on a Friday   Died on a Saturday, buried on a Sunday