Billy Of One Hand

His left hand severed just below the elbow And the nickname for him 'Billy of one hand' And he still feels quite angry with his father And why this should be not hard to understand. It happened when Billy was just four years old The day his father took him to the zoo He wandered towards a cage his dad not looking And an angry tiger bit his hand in two. But Billy will put no blame on the tiger A tiger just wild animal he say And for what happened to me I must blame my father I see my hand and hate him every day. I watched him as a young boy beat my mother 'Thanks be to god from us he went away' I can't remember any good about him And only darkest memories of him stay. He left my mum to live with his new lover To cheat and domineer to him seemed fair Ten years or maybe more since I've last seen him And where he live I do not know or care. 'Billy of one hand' his given nickname And the worst day of his life was at the zoo He strayed off whilst his father wasn't looking And an angry tiger bit his hand in two.