Ode To Billie Joe chords by
Leslie Satcher
Leslie Satcher
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Key: D major
Verse 1
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It was the 3rd of June,
another sleepy dusty delta day
Well I was out chopping cotton
and my brother was baling hay
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And at dinnertime we stopped
and walked up to the house to eat
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An d mama hollered out the back door,
y 'all remember to wipe your feet
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Then she said, I got some news today
from Choctaw Ridge
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It seems that Billy Joe McAllister
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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Well, Daddy said to Mama
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as he passed around the black
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-eyed peas
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That Billy Joe, he never had a leggie
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since Past Biscuit's Place
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And there's five more acres
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in the lower 40
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I've got to plow
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And Mama said it was a
shame about Billy Joe
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When he had you
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She said nothing good ever hap
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pens up on Choctaw Ridge
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An d now they tell me
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Billy Joe's done
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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Our brother said he recollected
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when him and Tom and Billy Joe
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I put a brogue down the back
at the Carroll County Picture Show
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And one night, talkin' to him after
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Gm
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church last Sunday night
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I'll have another piece of ap ple pie,
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you know it just don't seem right
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I saw him at the sawmill
yesterday
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Gm
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up on Chowtow Ridge
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And now you tell me Billy Joe's done
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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Well, mama said, child,
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what's happened to your
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appetite?
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Well, I've been cookin' all morning
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and you haven't touched a single bite
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All that nice young preacher
brother Taylor dropped by today
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I said he'd be pleased
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to have been on Sunday all right
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Well he said he saw a girl
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that looked a lot like you
up on Choctaw Ridge
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And she and Billy Joe
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were throwin' somethin'
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off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Well the years come and gone
since we heard the news about Billy Joe
That brother married Becky Thompson
and they bought a stove in Tupelo
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There was a virus goin' round,
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papa caught it and he died
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Dm
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last spring
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Bm
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D
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And now Marvin's ain't
no one to do much of anything
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Gm
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And me, I spend a lot of time
pickin' flowers
up on Choctaw Ridge
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And droppin' them into
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the muddy water
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off the Tallahatchie Bridge
It was the 3rd of June,
another sleepy, dusty, delta day

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