Billy & Beau

Dakota farmland, tabletop flat,
 is where Billy and I grew up at
 Billy was my friend since we were ten,
 So I guess I never thought about it much back then
 That we both looked up to this farm boy Beau,
 tall and strong from shoveling snow and baling hay,
 His big blue eyes were clear and bright as the prairie sky
 The heart wants to go where the heart wants to go
 and you can't undo it
 Billy never told me so but I just knew it
 Billy loved Beau
 Beau won best goat at the 4H fair,
 And I went to state for my pie with pears
 For raising a pig Billy won something too,
 And we all got to go on a trip to the zoo
 Beau and Billy,
 They laughed and laughed the whole way there and the whole way back
 Billy put his arm around his bud and said "Beau, I sure had fun".
 The heart wants to go where the heart wants to go
 and you can't undo it
 Billy never told me so but I just knew it
 Billy loved Beau
 Right out of school Billy just packed
 everything in his pickup and never came back
 Full scholarship in Chicago,
 made a lot of himself since twenty years ago
 We haven't seen hyde nor hair of Beau;
 Last we heard he's still with the rodeo
 He never got married, heard through the grapevine,
 But he broke a lot of hearts
 including Billy's and mine
 The heart wants to go where the heart wants to go
 and you can't undo it
 Billy never told me so but I just knew it
 The heart wants to go where the heart wants to go
 and you can't undo it
 Billy never told me so but I just knew it
 Billy loved Beau