<P> "Billy Boy" is a traditional folk song and nursery rhyme found in the United States . It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 326 . It is a variant of the traditional English folk song "My Boy Billy", collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams and published by him in 1912 as number 232 in Novello's School Songs . The song is very popular with the Orange Order . </P> <P> While the tone of the nursery rhyme is ironic and teasing, both the question and answer form and the narrative of the song have been related to "Lord Randall", a murder ballad from the British Isles, in which the suitor is poisoned by the woman he visits . </P> <P> By contrast, Robin Fox uses the song to make a point about cooking and courtship, and observes that: </P>

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