songs that mention the name billy or william

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1. Billy, Don't Be A Hero

2. William, It Was Really Nothing

― fader, Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

He says his name's William but I'm sure,
He's Bill or Billy or Mac or Buddy

All I Wanna Do - Sheryl Crow

I hate that this was the first thing that sprang to mind.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

is there a song about Billy D. Williams?

("Billy Hunt" by The Jam)

― donuty! donuti! donuté! (donut), Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

billy two by the clean

― keith m (keithmcl), Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

Billy Liar - The Decemberists

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

Billy Badass - Jackyl AND Gwar!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)

― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

"Billy Boola" by Bono & Gavin Friday (from the soundtrack to In the Name of the Father)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

"Where the Hell is Bill?" by Camper van Beethoven

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

wedding bell blues - 5th dimension [laura nyro]

billy, don't be a hero - paper lace

my girl bill - jim stafford

...sadly i know way too many of these.

― william (william), Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

sweet william by the pearlfishers

― keith m (keithmcl), Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

Bill Lee: Warren Zevon
Lonesome Cowboy Bill: Velvet Underground

And since the thread doesn't say anything about Bill or William being in the title only...

Don't Lose My Number: Phil Collins (billy don't lose my number)
The Promise: Bruce Springsteen (Johnny works in a factory, Billy works downtown)

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 14 July 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

PJ Harvey - C'mon Billy

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 14 July 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

"mr. bass" by the descendents

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 14 July 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

"Mrs. William where is William" by Bonnie Prince Billy

― Matthew Oldridge (mao), Thursday, 14 July 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

"precioys things" tori amos

― drystereo (drystereo), Thursday, 14 July 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

"The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carrol" Bob Dylan (William Zanzinger killed poor Hattie Carrol...)

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 14 July 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

billy jean - the king of pop

billy budd - morrisey

billy jack - curtis mayfield

― william (william), Thursday, 14 July 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

ode to billy joe - bobbie gentry

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 14 July 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

the 5th dimension -wedding bell blues

― reo, Thursday, 14 July 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

don't mess with bill - the marvelettes
the continuing story of bungalow bill - the beatles

― swvl (vozick), Thursday, 14 July 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

Mr. Participation Billy by Joan of Arc

― theodore fogelsanger (herbert hebert), Thursday, 14 July 2005 23:34 (twenty years ago)

which way you goin billy? - poppy family

― william (william), Friday, 15 July 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

relaxed muscle - billy jack

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 15 July 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

cannanes - william

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 15 July 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

lemon tree - william chalker's time machine

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 15 July 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

clinic - the return of evil bill

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 15 July 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)

seaweed - bill

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 15 July 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)

super furry animals - don't be a fool, billy

― enjoy bell woods, Friday, 15 July 2005 00:32 (twenty years ago)

son of a preacher man - dusty springield
"Billy-Ray was a preacher's son and when his daddy would visit he'd come along"

― oops (Oops), Friday, 15 July 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

Def Leppard - Billy's Got A Gun

― van nostrum (Buck Van Smack), Friday, 15 July 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

"Billy and the Sugarloaf Mountain" - Gorky's Zygotic Mynci

― Steve Gertz (sgertz), Friday, 15 July 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

Dollar William - Hue & Cry

― Cara, Friday, 15 July 2005 02:45 (twenty years ago)

Billy Joel, "Piano Man": "He says Bill, I believe this is killing me ..."

Schoolhouse Rock, "I'm Just a Bill"

Rubettes, "Under One Roof": "Billy ran away from home ..."

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 15 July 2005 02:50 (twenty years ago)

Love, "The Red Telephone" ("I feel real phony when my name is Phil! or was that Bill...")
Kris Kristofferson, "Billy Dee"
Ennio Morricone, "Lonesome Billy"

― bill neil (inabillity), Friday, 15 July 2005 02:56 (twenty years ago)

"Little Willy" (Sweet)
"The Name Game" (Shirley Ellis)
"Chicago" (Frank Sinatra)
"Don't Forget About Lightweight" (Gizmos)
"Billy" (Bob Dylan)

― Burr (Burr), Friday, 15 July 2005 02:57 (twenty years ago)

My friend Billy
Had a ten-foot willy
And he showed it to the girl next door.
She thought it was a snake
So she hit it with a rake
And now it's only six-foot four.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Friday, 15 July 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)

In "Polka Dot Tail" by Ween, there's one part where there's a pause and he says something that sounds like "Billie" right before the music continues.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Friday, 15 July 2005 03:57 (twenty years ago)

Super Furry Animals - "Presidential Suite"

Monica and naughty Billy
Got together something silly now
Holy wars out of lusty minutes
Another Cuban cigar crisis

Honestly!
Do we need to know if he really came inside her mouth?
How will all this affect me
Now and later?

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Friday, 15 July 2005 04:38 (twenty years ago)

wait wait wait. it's william zanzinger? for my entire life, i havent done enough research to know it wasnt just two dudes, williams and zinger.

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 15 July 2005 04:46 (twenty years ago)

"billy jack bitch" by O(+>

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 15 July 2005 04:47 (twenty years ago)

Handsome Family - "Amelia Earhart vs. the Dancing Bear"

Amelia, Amelia Earhart,
After her plane was torn apart
And bursting through the trees
She remembered picking lemons with William Randolph Hearst
And how a spinning plane propeller turned liquid in the sun.
And as the cockpit burned, her hair filled with sparks,
But when the glass exploded in, everything went dark.
She remembered sipping consommé with William Howard Taft
And a boy with perfect skin who smelled like mustard gas.
And as the cockpit burned, she couldn't help but smile,
Recalling a dancing bear she'd seen as a child.

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 15 July 2005 04:52 (twenty years ago)

"Billy don't like it living here in this town" - Rat Trap, Boomtown Rats

― bg (creamolafoam), Friday, 15 July 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

Lou Reed, Billy

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 15 July 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

Charles Mingus' The Clown: "William Morris sends regrets"

― Øystein (Øystein), Friday, 15 July 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

Dead Billy - Big Black

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 15 July 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

Billy's Bones - The Pogues

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 15 July 2005 12:15 (twenty years ago)

Farewell to the Crown - Chumbawamba

(Goodbye to the crown
Goodbye to the King of Nothing, really
Wave of a hand, not a life of Riley
Part Nazi, part King Billy)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 15 July 2005 12:18 (twenty years ago)

"Bill" from "Show Boat"
"Soliloquy" from "Carousel"
The Damned - "Billy Bad Breaks"

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 July 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

Lou Reed, Billy
"That's The Story Of My Life" - The Velvet Underground

"Yazoo Street Scandal" - Bob Dylan/The Band

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 15 July 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

Van Morrison, And it Stoned Me: "Half a mile from the county fair, and the rain came pouring down; me and Billy standing there with a silver half a crown."

About a thousand English trad and neo-trad songs; check out Eliza Carthy's "Billy Boy" and Kate Rusby's "Fairest of All Yarrow."

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Friday, 15 July 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

The Cure - "Cut Here" (I know it's about Billy Mackenzie but I can't remember if Robert says his name or not.)

― Ian Riese-Moraine: the crown prince of understatement. (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 15 July 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

Pavement - "Billie"

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 15 July 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

Do U2's "Angel of Harlem" or Gil Scott-Heron's "Lady Day and John Coltrane" mention Billie Holliday by her first name?

― Joseph McCombs remotely, Friday, 15 July 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

Dunno, but the Magnetic Fields' "My Only Friend" does.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 July 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

I think "Angel of Harlem" only mentions "Lady Day."

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 15 July 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

'William Brown' by Randy Newman (its on the 'Born Again' album)

― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Friday, 15 July 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

Devendra Banhart - Will Is My Friend

― Tokyo Ghost Stories (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Saturday, 16 July 2005 03:48 (twenty years ago)

billie don't you lose my number or whatever it's called by phil collins of genesis or whoever it is

― unbleiesaki, Saturday, 16 July 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)

Dusty Springfield, "Willie and Laura Mae Jones"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Saturday, 16 July 2005 04:25 (twenty years ago)

Neil Young, "Lookout Joe" ("Remember Bill? from up on the hill")

― bill neil (inabillity), Saturday, 16 July 2005 08:24 (twenty years ago)

Tomte - Wilhelm, das war nichts
(not a german cover version of william, it was really nothing)

― sibsi (sibsi), Saturday, 16 July 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

"Bill is Dead" - The Fall
"Bill's Corpse" - Captain Beefheart
"Billy is a Runaway" - Iggy Pop

― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Saturday, 16 July 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

Black Flag - Police Story

WALK DOWN THE STREET
I FLIP THEM OFF
THEY HIT ME ACROSS THE HEAD
WITH A BILLY CLUB

― DJ Mencap0))), Saturday, 16 July 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

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