Ode To Billie Joe chords by Tina Turner
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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It was the third of June,
another sleepy, dusty Delta day
I was out choppin' cotton and
my brother was balin' hay
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And at dinner time we stopped and
we walked back to the house to eat
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And mama hollered at the back door
"y'all remember to wipe your feet"
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And then she said she got some news
this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge
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Today Billie Joe MacAllister jumped
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off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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Verse 2
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Papa said to mama as he passed
around the blackeyed peas
"Well, Billie 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've got to plow"
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Mama said it was shame about Billie Joe,
anyhow
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Seems like nothin' ever comes to
no good up on Choctaw Ridge
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And now Billie Joe MacAllister jumped
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off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Verse 3
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And brother said he recollected
when he and Tom and Billie 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 just don't seem right"
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"I saw him at the sawmill yesterday
on Choctaw Ridge"
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"And now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped
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off the Tallahatchie Bridge"
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Verse 4
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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"
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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"
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"He said he saw a girl that looked a lot
like you up on Choctaw Ridge"
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"And she and Billie Joe was throwing
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somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge"
Verse 5
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A year has come 'n' gone since we heard
the news 'bout Billie 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
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And now mama doesn't seem
to wanna do much of anything
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And me, I spend a lot of time pickin'
flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
Verse 6
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And drop them into the muddy
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water off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Outro 1
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Ode To Billie Joe
Tina Turner
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