Ode To Billie Joe chords by
Nancy Wilson

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Key: Db 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 din ner time we stopped

and walked back to the house to eat

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And Mama hollered out the back door

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"Y'all remember to wipe your feet

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And then she said

"I got some news this mornin'

Verse 2

from Choctaw Ridge

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"Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped

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off the Tallahatchie Bridge

Verse 3

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'N' Papa said to Mama as he passed

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around the blackeyed peas

Verse 4

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"Well Billy Joe never had a lick of sense,

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pass the biscuits, please

Verse 5

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"There's five more acres in the lower

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forty I've got to plow

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

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anyhow

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Seems like nothin' ever comes to no

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good up on Choctaw Ridge

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And now Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped

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off the Tallahatchie Bridge

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Verse 6

'N' Brother said he recollected

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when he and Tom and Billie Joe

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Put a frog down my back at the Carroll

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County picture show

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And wasn't I talkin' to him after

church last Sunday night?

Verse 7

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

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you know it don't seem right

Verse 8

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"I saw him at the sawmill yesterday

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on Choctaw Ridge

Verse 9

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"And now ya tell me Billie Joe's jumped

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off the Tallahatchie Bridge

Verse 10

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'N' Mama said to me

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"Child, what's happened to

your appetite?

Verse 11

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"I've been cookin' all morning and

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you haven't touched a single bite

Verse 12

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"That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor,

dropped by today

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Verse 13

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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

Verse 14

saw a girl that looked a lot

like you up on Choctaw Ridge

Verse 15

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"And she and Billy Joe was throwing

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somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge

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Verse 16

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A year has come 'n' gone since we

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heard the news 'bout Billy Joe

'N' 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 water

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off the Tallahatchie Bridge

Outro 1

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