Ode To Billie Joe chords by Tina Turner

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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It was the third  (G major) of June,
another sleepy, dusty Delta day
I was out choppin' cotton and
my brother was balin' hay
C 
And at  (C major) dinner time we stopped and
we walked back to the house to eat
G 
And mama  (G major) hollered at the back door
"y'all remember to wipe your feet"
C 
And then she  (C major) said she got some news
this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge
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G 
Today  (F major)  (G major) Billie Joe MacAllister jumped
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 (F major) off the Talla (B flat major) hatchie  (G major) Bridge

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Verse 2
G 
 (G major) 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 
 (C major) "There's five more acres in the lower
forty I've got to plow"
G 
Mama  (G major) said it was shame about Billie Joe,
anyhow
C 
Seem (C major) s like nothin' ever comes to
no good up on Choctaw Ridge
G 
And  (G major) now Billie Joe MacAllister jumped
F 
G 
off  (F major) the Tallahatchie  (G major) Bridge

Verse 3
G 
 (G major) 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 was (C major) n't I talkin' to him after
church last Sunday night?
G 
"I'll  (G major) have another piece of apple pie,
you know it just don't seem right"
C 
"I  (C major) saw him at the sawmill yesterday
on Choctaw Ridge"
G 
"And now you  (G major) tell me Billie Joe's jumped
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off  (F major) the Talla (B flat major) hatchie Bridge"
G 
 (G major) 

Verse 4
G 
 (G major) 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  (C major) nice young preacher,
Brother Taylor, dropped by today"
G 
"Said he'd be  (G major) pleased to have dinner on Sunday,
oh, by the way"
C 
"He  (C major) said he saw a girl that looked a lot
like you up on Choctaw Ridge"
G 
"And she and  (G major) Billie Joe was throwing
C 
G 
 (C major) somethin' off the Tallahatchie  (G major) Bridge"

Verse 5
G 
 (G major) 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  (C major) a virus going 'round,
papa caught it and he died last Spring
G 
 (G major) And now mama doesn't seem
to wanna do much of anything
C 
An (C major) d me, I spend a lot of time pickin'
flowers up on Choctaw Ridge