Tell me that you love me billy cline
Tell me that your love is true as mine
Tell me that you love your own turtle dove
Tell me that you love me billy cline

Now who is it knows billy cline
He lives at the foot of the hills
In a shady nook by a babbling brook
He runs his dear old father’s mill

Now if I was a little bird
I’d never build my nest on the ground
I’d build my nest in some tall oak tree
Where the wild boys couldn’t tear it down

Now if I was a little fish
I’d swim to the bottom of the sea
I’d swim to the bottom of the deep blue sea
Where no bad boys couldn’t catch me