"Preacher Boy" is a jazz song written by singer Billie Holiday, and composer Jeanne Burns and published by E.B.
This is one of seven songs written by or co-written by Holiday that she never recorded.
[1][2] 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.
One day, we were walking down the street (in his home town) and somebody says 'Hey Preach!