Topic: LITTLE WILLY (THE BEST OF THEM ALL)

This song is complete fiction apart from the fact that my youngest son is called Willy by his older brothers and his friends, but I like the story.

Little Willy. (Best Of Them All) Undefined


[D] Little Willy was my best friend.


Stood by me till the bitter end.


[G7] Made a pact and we shook on that.


[D] Through all those years we never looked back.





(riff)[A-G7-D-A7]






[D] Little Willy was my best friend.


We stood together till the bitter end.


[G7] Always there when the chips were down.


[D] It felt good to know he was around.


[A7] And when the time came to stand and fight.


[D] Little Willy seemed to grow in hight.






[G7] Stand back and give us some space.


[D7] See the smile spread across his face.


[G7] We're a team and we never back down.


[E7] We're the toughest two [A7] guys in town.


[D] Little Willy is my best friend.



We stand together till the bitter end.


[G7] If I need to I'll give him a call.


[D] Fight his way through the ruck and the maul.


[A7] He may be rough. He may be small.


[D] Little Willy is the best of them all.




(SOLO OVER VERSE > CHORUS)






[Em7] Oh. [A7] Oh. My [D] friend. He's my [Bm7] friend.


[C] We'll be [G] together till the [Em7] world comes to an [A7] end.


[D] Little Willy was my best friend.


He met a girl and off he went.


[G7] I thought we'd be best friends for life.


[D] And so we were till he found a wife.


[A7] He moved away. We talk sometimes.


[D] I'll see you soon. But that's all lies.




(CHORUS)




Words & Music by Phill Williams.





 

Ask not what Chordie can do for you, but what you can do for Chordie.

Re: LITTLE WILLY (THE BEST OF THEM ALL)

fiendishly funny Phill  !!!     

Your vision is not limited by what your eye can see, but what your mind can imagine.
Make your life count, and the world will be a better place because you tried.

"Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except only the the best." - Henry Van Dyke

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Re: LITTLE WILLY (THE BEST OF THEM ALL)

Love the lyrics Phill. Though I must admit when I saw the title I thought about Billy Connelly talking about his willy  and  the Scottish lady telling him its not size of your Willy that matters  is how you use it.   Putting my stupid mind aside I think what happens when some men  grow up they do change after they settle down with a lady, People's goals and interest  change and so on.  Sometimes that means they don't have as much in common with their old friends as they use to. Your song has described that  perfectly even though it  is a made up event it would resonate with many. When I was a Kid I had a group of  mates and we called ourselves the Musketeers the old " One for all, . All for one" .
I went to a school reunion years later after not seeing these guys for years apart from childhood up until about age twelve, we had very little in common.

Re: LITTLE WILLY (THE BEST OF THEM ALL)

Hi Jim. thanks for that. Not many people get my sense of humour.     

Ask not what Chordie can do for you, but what you can do for Chordie.

Re: LITTLE WILLY (THE BEST OF THEM ALL)

Shwmae Pete? ( your name in Welsh would be Pedr)

I never thought of the Billy Connelly connection but I must admit it began with the first line leading to a song full of double entondres but I couldn't keep it up, pun intended. I then thought, as you did of my old school mates and meeting up 50 years later all we had in common was friends that had died! The last verse was a statement of fact, as we get older we do tend to meet girls or boys, and we drift away from them and only meet up or correspond occasionally!
So I guess it's funny yet sad     

Ask not what Chordie can do for you, but what you can do for Chordie.

Re: LITTLE WILLY (THE BEST OF THEM ALL)

Kia ora Piri (Phill )
The long version of your name in Kiwi Maori is  Pirihi. Girls called Phillipa are named Piripia or Piri for short.
Cheers
Pedr