Ode To Billie Joe
Ode To Billie Joe

Ode To Billie Joe easy guitar chords by Nancy Wilson

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    • Verse 1
    It 
    was 
    the third 
    of 
    June, 

    another 
    sleepy, 
    dusty 
    Delta 
    day 

    I 
    was 
    out 
    choppin' 
    cotton 
    and 

    my 
    brother 
    was 
    bal
    in' 
    hay 

    And 
    at 
    din
    ner time 
    we 
    stopped 

    and walked 
    back 
    to the 
    house 
    to eat 

    And 
    Mama 
    hollered 
    out 
    the back 
    door 

    "Y'all 
    remember 
    to 
    wipe 
    your feet 

    And 
    then 
    she 
    said 

    "I 
    got 
    some 
    news 
    this 
    mornin' 

    Verse 2
    from 
    Choctaw 
    Ridge 


    "Today 
    Billy 
    Joe 
    MacAllister 
    jumped 

    off 
    the 
    Tallahatchie 
    Bridge 

    Verse 3
    'N' 
    Papa 
    said 
    to Mama 
    as 
    he passed 

    around 
    the 
    blackeyed peas 

    Verse 4

    "Well 
    Billy Joe 
    never 
    had 
    a lick 
    of sense, 

    pass 
    the biscuits, 
    please 

    Verse 5
    "There's 
    five 
    more 
    acres 
    in the 
    lower 

    forty 
    I've 
    got 
    to plow 

    'N' 
    Mama 
    said 
    it 
    was shame 
    about 
    Billy 
    Joe, 

    anyhow 

    Seems 
    like 
    nothin' 
    ever 
    comes 
    to no 

    good 
    up 
    on 
    Choctaw 
    Ridge 

    And 
    now 
    Billy 
    Joe 
    MacAllister's 
    jumped 

    off 
    the 
    Tallahatchie 
    Bridge 

    Verse 6

    'N' 
    Brother 
    said 
    he 
    recollected 

    when he 
    and Tom 
    and Billie 
    Joe 

    Put 
    a frog 
    down 
    my 
    back 
    at 
    the Carroll 

    County 
    picture 
    show 

    And 
    wasn't 
    I talkin' 
    to 
    him 
    after 

    church 
    last 
    Sunday 
    night? 

    Verse 7
    "I'll 
    have 
    another 
    piece- 
    a apple 
    pie, 

    you 
    know 
    it 
    don't 
    seem 
    right 

    Verse 8

    "I saw 
    him 
    at the 
    sawmill 
    yesterday 

    on 
    Choctaw 
    Ridge 

    Verse 9
    "And 
    now 
    ya tell 
    me 
    Billie 
    Joe's 
    jumped 

    off 
    the 
    Tallahatchie 
    Bridge 

    Verse 10
    'N' 
    Mama 
    said 
    to me 

    "Child, 
    what's 
    happene
    d to 

    your 
    appetite? 

    Verse 11
    "I've been 
    cookin' 
    all 
    morning 
    and 

    you haven't 
    touched 
    a 
    single 
    bite 

    Verse 12
    "That 
    nice 
    young 
    preacher, 
    Brother 
    Taylor, 

    dropped 
    by 
    today 

    Verse 13

    "Said 
    he'd 
    be pleased 
    to 
    have 
    dinner on 
    Sunday, 

    oh, 
    by 
    the 
    way 

    "He 
    said he 
    Verse 14
    saw 
    a girl 
    that looked 
    a lot 

    like 
    you 
    up 
    on 
    Choctaw 
    Ridge 

    Verse 15
    "And 
    she 
    and Billy 
    Joe 
    was 
    throwing 

    somethin' 
    off 
    the 
    Tallahatchie 
    Bridge 

    Verse 16

    A year 
    has come 
    'n' gone 
    since 
    we 

    heard the 
    news 
    'bout 
    Billy 
    Joe 

    'N' 
    Brother 
    married 
    Becky 
    Thompson, 

    they 
    bought 
    a store 
    in 
    Tupelo 

    There was 
    a 
    virus 
    going 
    'round, 

    Papa 
    caught 
    it 
    and he died 
    last 
    Spring 

    And now 
    Mama 
    doesn't 
    seem 
    to 

    wanna 
    do 
    much 
    of 
    anything 

    And 
    me, 
    I spend 
    a lot 
    of time 
    pickin' 

    flowers 
    up 
    on 
    Choctaw 
    Ridge 

    And 
    drop 
    them 
    into 
    the 
    muddy 
    water 

    off 
    the 
    Talla
    hatchie 
    Bridge 

    Outro 1

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