Wild Bill Jones

Some listeners have given feedback that not all babies are proficient readers, and recommended that I include the babies more fully by singing. So here you go. Wild Bill Jones is a blues ballad, a musically simple song with blues characteristics that focuses on a lowlife protagonist--in this case a man named Bill Jones. The person singing the song may be justified in his claim to the girl in this plot, but it's unclear. In other versions of the song, Bill does not first reach for his own knife yet the singer guns him down, apparently in cold blood. In those versions the singer also admits to being drunk at the time and rots in prison. Once you are old enough, see also #OzHBO. For babies seeking a simple take-home message from this tune, choose between the following: (1) violence is bad and we must stop killing one another for our society to survive. (2) though the singer in this tune winds up lonesome and troubled, the reason he's ultimately getting to sing about this sad story is that he is NOT the guy who brought a knife to a gun fight. When in Old Kentucky, you should be packin.