Ode To Billie Joe chords by Sunny Wilkinson

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Verse 1
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It was the 3rd of June,
another sleepy, dusty, delta day
Oh, I was out chopping cotton,
my brother, he was bailing hay
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And at dinnertime we stopped
and we headed to the house to eat
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Mama hollered out the back door,
y 'all remember, wipe your feet.
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And then she said,
I've got some news this mornin'
from Shocktown Ridge
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Today in Billy Joe McCallister
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Papa said to mama as he passed
around
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the black eyed peas
Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense
Pass the biscuits, please
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There's five more acres
in the lower forty
I gotta climb
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And mama said it wasn't a shame
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about Billy Joe anyhow
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Seems like nothing ever comes to no good
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up Shoctaw Ridge
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And now Billy Joe McAllister
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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And brother said he recollected
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when he and Tom and Billy Joe
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Put a frog down my back
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at the Carroll County Picture Show
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An d  was n't I talking to
him after church
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last Sunday night?
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I'll have another piece of apple pie
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You know it don't seem right
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I  saw him yesterday
at the sawmill
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on Choctaw Ridge
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And now you tell me Billy Joe's
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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And mama said to me, child,
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what's happened to your appetite?
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I've been cooking
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all through the morning,
and you haven't touched
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a single bite.
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Oh, that nice young preacher,
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Brother Taylor,
dropped by today
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Said he'd be pleased to have dinner
on Sunday, oh, by the way
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He said he saw a girl
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that looked a lot like you
up on Shock Torridge
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And she and  Billy Joe was
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throwing something
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off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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Well, a year has come and gone
since we heard the news about
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Billy Joe.
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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 it died last spring
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Now mama doesn't seem
to want to do much of anything
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And me, I spend a lot of time
picking flowers
Unshoked a ridge
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And dropped them into the muddy water
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off the Tallahatchie Bridge
and drop them into the muddy water
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off the Tallahatchie Bridge you