Ode To Billie Joe

Ode To Billie Joe easy guitar chords by Nancy Wilson

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Capo

Fret 1

Capo

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Capo

  • C

  • Gm

    3

  • F

  • Bb

  • Fm

  • C

  • Gm

    3

  • F

  • Bb

  • Fm

    • Verse 1
    C

    It was the third of June,
    Gm
    C

    another sleepy, dusty Delta day

    I was out choppin' cotton and
    Gm
    C

    my brother was balin' hay
    F

    And at dinner time we stopped

    and walked back to the house to eat
    C

    And Mama hollered out the back door
    Gm
    C

    "Y'all remember to wipe your feet
    F

    And then she said

    "I got some news this mornin'
    Verse 2

    from Choctaw Ridge
    F

    C

    "Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped
    Bb

    off the Tallahatchie Bridge
    Verse 3
    C
    Gm

    'N' Papa said to Mama as he passed
    C

    around the blackeyed peas
    Verse 4

    C
    Gm

    "Well Billy Joe never had a lick of sense,
    C

    pass the biscuits, please
    Verse 5
    F

    "There's five more acres in the lower
    Fm
    F
    Fm

    forty I've got to plow
    F
    C
    Gm

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

    anyhow
    F

    Seems like nothin' ever comes to no
    Fm
    F

    good up on Choctaw Ridge
    C

    And now Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped
    Bb

    off the Tallahatchie Bridge
    C
    Verse 6


    'N' Brother said he recollected
    Gm
    C

    when he and Tom and Billie Joe
    Gm

    Put a frog down my back at the Carroll
    C

    County picture show
    F

    And wasn't I talkin' to him after

    church last Sunday night?
    Verse 7
    C

    "I'll have another piece- a apple pie,
    Gm
    C

    you know it don't seem right
    Verse 8

    F

    "I saw him at the sawmill yesterday
    Fm
    F

    on Choctaw Ridge
    Verse 9
    C

    "And now ya tell me Billie Joe's jumped
    Bb
    C

    off the Tallahatchie Bridge
    Verse 10
    C

    'N' Mama said to me
    Gm
    C

    "Child, what's happened to

    your appetite?
    Verse 11
    C

    "I've been cookin' all morning and
    Gm
    C

    you haven't touched a single bite
    Verse 12
    F

    "That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor,

    dropped by today
    Fm
    F
    Verse 13
    Fm

    F
    C

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

    oh, by the way
    F
    "He said he
    Verse 14

    saw a girl that looked a lot

    like you up on Choctaw Ridge
    Verse 15
    F
    C

    "And she and Billy Joe was throwing
    Bb

    somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge
    C
    Verse 16

    Gm

    A year has come 'n' gone since we
    C

    heard the news 'bout Billy Joe

    'N' Brother married Becky Thompson,
    Bb
    Gm

    they bought a store in Tupelo
    C
    F

    There was a virus going 'round,

    Papa caught it and he died last Spring
    C
    Gm

    And now Mama doesn't seem to
    C

    wanna do much of anything
    Fm
    F
    C
    Fm

    And me, I spend a lot of time pickin'

    flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
    C

    And drop them into the muddy water
    Bb
    C

    off the Tallahatchie Bridge
    Outro 1
    C

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