Billy and his Chevrolet
An Experimentation with the Ballad Format
Johnny and his sister
were walking down the road
Billy in his Chevrolet
not watching where he go.
Sister holds a basket
and Johnny holds her hand
Mother needs some eggs at market
Out of nowhere Billy comes
Kicking up dust and grit
Music blaring and cigarette burning
Too young to give a sh*t.
Johnny and his sister
distracted by each other
Don't see Billy's Chevrolet
have no time to run for cover
The Chevrolet goes plowing
Into Johnny and sister both
now they lay dead and broken
upon that dusty road.
Billy screams and hollers
But it it is far too late
And Billy and his Chevrolet
Have a destiny with fate.
He drives the car over the edge
of Alan Montgomery's Cliff
The car explodes in a ball of fire
Now Billy is a stiff.