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Ode To Billie Joe chords by 
Tina Turner 
N/A•
Key: G major•BPM: 125
Intro 1
G
D
G
Verse 1
G
It was the third of June,
another sleepy, dusty Delta day
I was out choppin' cotton and
my brother was balin' hay
C
And at dinner time we stopped and
we walked back to the house to eat
G
And mama hollered at the back door
"y'all remember to wipe your feet"
C
And then she said she got some news
this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge
F
G
Today Billie Joe MacAllister jumped
F
Bb
G
off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Verse 2
G
Papa said to mama as he passed
around the blackeyed peas
"Well, Billie Joe never had a lick of sense,
pass the biscuits, please"
C
"There's five more acres in the lower
forty I've got to plow"
G
Mama said it was shame about Billie Joe,
anyhow
C
Seems like nothin' ever comes to
no good up on Choctaw Ridge
G
And now Billie Joe MacAllister jumped
F
G
off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Verse 3
G
And brother said he recollected
when he and Tom and Billie Joe
Put a frog down my back at the Carroll
County picture show
C
And wasn't I talkin' to him after
church last Sunday night?
G
"I'll have another piece of apple pie,
you know it just don't seem right"
C
"I saw him at the sawmill yesterday
on Choctaw Ridge"
G
"And now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped
F
Bb
off the Tallahatchie Bridge"
G
Verse 4
G
Mama said to me "Child,
what's happened to your appetite?"
"I've been cookin' all morning and you
haven't touched a single bite"
C
"That nice young preacher,
Brother Taylor, dropped by today"
G
"Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday,
oh, by the way"
C
"He said he saw a girl that looked a lot
like you up on Choctaw Ridge"
G
"And she and Billie Joe was throwing
C
G
somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge"
Verse 5
G
A year has come 'n' gone since we heard
the news 'bout Billie Joe
Brother married Becky Thompson,
they bought a store in Tupelo
C
There was a virus going 'round,
papa caught it and he died last Spring
G
And now mama doesn't seem
to wanna do much of anything
C
And me, I spend a lot of time pickin'
flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
Verse 6
G
And drop them into the muddy
F
Bb
water off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Outro 1
G
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