Ode To Billie Joe chords by
Roland Kirk

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Key: D major

Verse 1
D D 
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It was the 3rd of June,
another sleepy dusty
Delta day I was out chopping cotton
Am Am 
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D D 
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and my brother was baling hay
G G 
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And at dinnertime we stopped
and walked back to the house to eat
D D 
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And mama hollered at the back door,
y 'all remember to wipe your feet
And then she said,
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I got some news this morning
from Choctaw Ridge
D D 
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Today, Billy Joe McAllister
C C 
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D D 
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Papa said to Mama
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as he passed around the
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black -eyed peas
Well, Billy Joe never had liquor since
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Pass the biscuits, please
G G 
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There's five more acres in the lower 40
I've got to plow
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Mama said it was a shame
about Billy Joe anyhow
G G 
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Seems like nothing ever comes to no good
up on Choctaw Ridge
D D 
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And now Billy Joe McAllister's
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D D 
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Brother said he recollected
when he and Tom and Billy Joe
Put a frog down my back
at the Carroll 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,
you know it don't seem right
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I saw him at the sawmill
yesterday on Choctaw Ridge
D D 
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And now you tell me Billy Joes
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D D 
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Mama said to me, child,
Am Am 
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what's happened to your appetite?
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I've been cookin' all mornin'
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D D 
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and 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, oh by the way
G G 
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He said he saw a girl
that looked a lot like you
up on Choctaw Ridge
D D 
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And she and Billy Joe
was throwin' somethin'
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D D 
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off the Tallahatchie Bridge
A year has come and gone
since we heard the news
about Billy Joe
Brother married Becky Thompson,
they bought a store in Tupelo
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There was a virus going round,
Papa caught it and he died last spring
D D 
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And now Mama doesn't seem to
want to do much of anything
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And may 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

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