Preacher Boy

{{confused|Preacher's Boy|Preacher's Son}}

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"Preacher Boy" is a jazz song written by singer Billie Holiday, and composer Jeanne Burns and published by E.B. Marks. This is one of seven songs written by or co-written by Holiday that she never recorded.{{cite book |title=Billie Holiday |author=Stuart Nicholson |date=1995 |isbn=1-55553-303-5

|publisher=Northeastern University Press }}{{cite book |title=THE BEST OF BILLIE HOLIDAY: Songs Recorded and Made Famous By Lady Day |author=Billie Holiday |date=March 1984 |isbn=0-7935-3687-1 |publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation }}

According to Holiday, she wrote the song as a tribute to her second husband, Louis McKay. Holiday met McKay's family in December 1951 and recalled: "His mother, she's eighty years old and she had this dog and she loved this dog so much. The dog died and he preached over the dog. One day, we were walking down the street (in his home town) and somebody says 'Hey Preach! Hey Preach! What's the matter? You don't know me anymore, man?' Well I asked Louis what he was talking about and he said 'he's talking about me,' so that's how I learned the story."interview|title=Mike Wallace Night Beat |November 8, 1956|Lady Day CD Box Set|New Sound Planet JUTB 3044|1989 The song was published by E.B. Marks, but she never recorded it.{{cite book |title=Billie Holiday |author=Stuart Nicholson |date=1995 |isbn=1-55553-303-5

|publisher=Northeastern University Press }}{{cite book |title=Billie's Blues |author=John Chilton |date=1989 |isbn=0-306-80363-1 |publisher=Da Capo Press |url=https://archive.org/details/billiesbluesbill00chilt }}