Biography:
Billy Joe Royal (April 3, 1942 – October 6, 2015) was an American pop and country singer.
Born in Valdosta, Georgia, and raised in Marietta, Georgia, Royal became a local star at the Bamboo Ranch in Savannah in the 1950s and 1960s. He is best known for the 1965 US Top 10 pop hit "Down in the Boondocks", which, along with the singles "I Knew You When" (Top 20, 1965) and "Hush" (1967), were written and produced by Joe South. Another South composition, "Yo-Yo," just missed the top 40 in Canada and charted poorly in the U.
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Other songs:
- Boardwalk Angel
- Burn Like A Rocket
- Burned Like A Rocket
- Campfire Girls
- Cherry Hill Park
- Down In The Boondocks
- Everything Turned Blue
- Hearts Desire
- Hush
- I Knew You When
- I Miss You Already
- I Never Promised You A Rose Garden
- I've Got To Be Somebody
- If The Jukebox Took Teardrops
- Ill Pin A Note On Your Pillow
- It Keeps Right On A
- Love Has No Right
- Old Bridges
- Old Bridges Burn Slow
- She Dont Cry Like She Used To
- These Are Not My People
- Til I Cant Take It Anymore
- Under The Boardwalk
- Yo
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Campfire Girls:Billy Joe Royal.
#91 on BB Hot 100 on Columbia Records
in 1966.
INTRO: Bb
CHORUS:
Bb G C
You better go join the campfire girls, take
a few piano lessons.
F Bb
Buy a little doll to have for your best friend.
G
Do all the things that little girls do..cause
C F
if you don't know how to be true, you better
Bb
go start over again.
#1.
Gm Eb
You said, I was your only boy, but you sure
F
lead me wrong.
Gm C F
I found out you just played me for a fool.
F Bb Eb
Now, don't you know it's wrong to lie and make
the one who loves you cry?
Bb F Bb
I wonder where you missed the golden rule.
CHORUS:
Bb G C
You better go join the campfire girls, take
a few piano lessons.
F Bb
Buy a little doll to have for your best friend.
G
Do all the things that little girls do..cause
C F
if you don't know how to be true, you better
Bb
go start over again.
INTERLUDE: Bb
#2.
Gm Eb
I thought you knew, like everyone, that love's
F
a sacred thing.
Gm Cm F
And not a game to play with every boy.
Bb Eb
But you thought it was funny when you put me
down for him.
Bb F Bb
To you, my heart was just another toy.
CHORUS:
Bb G C
You better go join the campfire girls, take
a few piano lessons.
F Bb
Buy a little doll to have for your best friend.
G
Do all the things that little girls do..cause
C F
if you don't know how to be true, you better
Bb
go start over again.
OUTRO:
Bb G C
You better go join the campfire girls, take
a few piano lessons.
F Bb
Buy a little doll to have for your best friend..(Fade.)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
#91 on BB Hot 100 on Columbia Records
in 1966.
INTRO: Bb
CHORUS:
Bb G C
You better go join the campfire girls, take
a few piano lessons.
F Bb
Buy a little doll to have for your best friend.
G
Do all the things that little girls do..cause
C F
if you don't know how to be true, you better
Bb
go start over again.
#1.
Gm Eb
You said, I was your only boy, but you sure
F
lead me wrong.
Gm C F
I found out you just played me for a fool.
F Bb Eb
Now, don't you know it's wrong to lie and make
the one who loves you cry?
Bb F Bb
I wonder where you missed the golden rule.
CHORUS:
Bb G C
You better go join the campfire girls, take
a few piano lessons.
F Bb
Buy a little doll to have for your best friend.
G
Do all the things that little girls do..cause
C F
if you don't know how to be true, you better
Bb
go start over again.
INTERLUDE: Bb
#2.
Gm Eb
I thought you knew, like everyone, that love's
F
a sacred thing.
Gm Cm F
And not a game to play with every boy.
Bb Eb
But you thought it was funny when you put me
down for him.
Bb F Bb
To you, my heart was just another toy.
CHORUS:
Bb G C
You better go join the campfire girls, take
a few piano lessons.
F Bb
Buy a little doll to have for your best friend.
G
Do all the things that little girls do..cause
C F
if you don't know how to be true, you better
Bb
go start over again.
OUTRO:
Bb G C
You better go join the campfire girls, take
a few piano lessons.
F Bb
Buy a little doll to have for your best friend..(Fade.)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
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