Ode to Billie Joe chords by
Diana Ross & The Supremes

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Key: F major•

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 and

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my brother was balin' hay

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And at dinner time we stopped and we walked

back to the house to eat

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And mama hollered at the back door "y'all

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remember to wipe your feet"

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And then she said she got some news this

mornin' from Choctaw Ridge

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Today Billie Joe MacAllister jumped

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off the Tallahatchie Bridge

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Verse 2

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Papa said to mama as he passed

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around the blackeyed 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've got to plow"

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Mama said it was shame about Billie Joe,

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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 jumped

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off the Tallahatchie Bridge

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Verse 3

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Brother said he recollected when

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he and Tom and Billie Joe

Put a frog down my back at the Car

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roll 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 of apple pie,

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you know it just 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 jumped

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off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

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Verse 4

Mama said to me "Child,

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what's happened to your appetite?"

"I've been cookin' all morning and

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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,

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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 throwing

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somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

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Verse 5

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A year has come 'n' gone since we heard

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the news 'bout Billie Joe

Brother married Becky Thompson,

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they bought a store in Tupelo

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There was a virus going 'round,

papa caught it and he died last Spring

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And now mama doesn't seem to

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wanna 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

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water off the Tallahatchie Bridge

Outro 1

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