Ode To Billie Jo chords by Chaise Lounge

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It was the 3rd of June,
another sleepy dusty day today
I was out choppin' cotton
and my brother was bathin' hay
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And at dinnertime we stopped
and walked back to the
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house to eat
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Mama hollered out the back door,
y 'all remember, to wipe your feet
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She said, got some news this mornin'
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from Choctaw Ridge
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Today Billy Joe McAllister
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Papa said to mama,
as he passed around the black eyed blues
Well that Billy Joe never
had a lick of since,
past the biscuits please
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There's five more acres
and a lower forty
I've got to plow
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Mama said it was a shame
about Billy Joe anyhow
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Seems nothing ever comes to no good
up on Choctaw Ridge
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And now Billy Joe McAllister's
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Brother recollected that he
and Tom and Billy Joe
Put a frog down my back
at the Carroll County Picture Show
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Wasn't I  talkin' to him at the church
last Sunday night?
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I'll have another piece of apple pie,
you know it don't seem right
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I saw him at the sawmill
yesterday on Choctaw Ridge
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And now you tell me Billy Joe
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has jumped off the Tallahatchie
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Bridge
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I'm going thing on the other side,
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but Mama said to me, child,
what's happened to your appetite?
I've been cooking all morning
and you haven't touched a single bite.
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That nice young preacher
brother Taylor
stopped by today
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Said he'd be pleased to
have dinner on Sunday
And oh by the way
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He said he saw a girl
that looked a lot like you
up on Choctaw Ridge
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And she and Billy Joe
were throwin' something
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off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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The year has come and gone
since we heard the news
about Billy Joe
Brother Mary Becky Thompson
bought a store in Tupelo
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There was a virus going round,
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Papa caught it and he
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died last spring
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And now Mama doesn't seem to
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want to do much of anything
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Me, I spend a lot of time
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picking flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
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And drop them into the muddy water
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off the Tallahatchie Bridge