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Ode To Billie Joe easy guitar chords by
Bobbie Gentry
Bobbie Gentry

1967Country
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Intro 1
D
D
D
D

Verse 1
D

It was the third of June,
Am
D

another sleepy, dusty Delta day

I was out choppin' cotton,
Am
D

and my brother was balin' hay
G

And at dinner time we stopped

and walked back to the house to eat
D

And Mama hollered out the back door,

"Y'all, remember to wipe your feet!"
G

And then she said,

"I got some news this mornin'

from Choctaw Ridge
D

Today, Billie Joe MacAllister
C
D

jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"
Verse 2
D

And Papa said to Mama,
Am
D

as he passed around the black-eyed peas

"Well, Billie Joe never had a lick of sense;
Am
D

pass the biscuits, please
G

There's five more acres in the lower forty

I got to plow"
D

And Mama said

it was a shame about Billie Joe, anyhow
G

Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good

up on Choctaw Ridge
D

And now Billie Joe MacAllister's
C
D

jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Verse 3
D

And brother said he recollected
Am
D

when he, and Tom, and Billie Joe

Put a frog down my back
Am
D

at the Carroll County picture show
G

And wasn't I talkin' to him

after church last Sunday night?
D

"I'll have another piece-a apple pie;

you know, it don't seem right
G

I saw him at the sawmill yesterday

on Choctaw Ridge
D

And now you tell me Billie Joe's
C
D

jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"
Verse 4
D

Mama said to me,
Am
D

"Child, what's happened to your appetite?

I've been cookin' all mornin',
Am
D

and you haven't touched a single bite
G

That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor,

dropped by today
D

Said he'd be pleased

to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way
G

He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you

up on Choctaw Ridge
D

And she and Billie Joe was throwin' somethin'
C
D

off the Tallahatchie Bridge"
Verse 5
D

A year has come and gone
Am
D

since we heard the news 'bout Billie Joe

And brother married Becky Thompson;
Am
D

they bought a store in Tupelo
G

There was a virus goin' 'round;

Papa caught it, and he died last spring
D

And now Mama doesn't seem to want to do

much of anything
G

And me, I spend a lot of time

pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
D

And drop them into the muddy water
C
D

off the Tallahatchie Bridge

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