Ode To Billie Joe chords by
Bobbie Gentry

1967Country161 views

Key: D major•

Intro 1

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Verse 1
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It was the third of June,
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another sleepy, dusty Delta day
I was out choppin' cotton,
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and my brother was balin' hay
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And at dinner time we stopped
and walked back to the house to eat
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And Mama hollered out the back door,
"Y'all, remember to wipe your feet!"
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And then she said,
"I got some news this mornin'
from Choctaw Ridge
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Today, Billie Joe MacAllister
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

Verse 2
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And Papa said to Mama,
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as he passed around the black-eyed peas
"Well, Billie Joe never had a lick of sense;
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pass the biscuits, please
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There's five more acres in the lower forty
I got to plow"
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And Mama said
it was a shame about Billie Joe, anyhow
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Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good
up on Choctaw Ridge
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And now Billie Joe MacAllister's
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

Verse 3
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And brother said he recollected
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when he, and Tom, and Billie Joe
Put a frog down my back
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at the Carroll County picture show
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And wasn't I  talkin' to him
after church last Sunday night?
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"I'll have another piece-a 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 Billie Joe's
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

Verse 4
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Mama said to me,
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"Child, what's happened to your appetite?
I've been cookin' all mornin',
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and you haven't touched a single bite
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That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor,
dropped by today
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Said he'd be pleased
to have dinner on Sunday, 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 Billie Joe was throwin' somethin'
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off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

Verse 5
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A year has come and gone
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since we heard the news 'bout Billie Joe
And brother married Becky Thompson;
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they bought a store in Tupelo
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There was a virus goin' 'round;
Papa caught it, and he died last spring
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And now Mama doesn't seem to want to do
much of anything
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And me, I spend a lot of time
pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
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And drop them into the muddy water
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off the Tallahatchie Bridge

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