Ode to Billie Joe chords by
Wasteland Green

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Key: D major•

Verse 1

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It was the 3rd of June,

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another sleepy, dusty

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Delta day I was out chopping, cutting

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and my brother was bathing hay

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The end of dinnertime we stopped

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and walked back to the house to eat

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And mama hollered at the back door,

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you'll remember to wipe your feet

And then she said,

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I got some news this morning

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from Tuk Tuk Rides

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Today Billy Joe McAllister

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Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

Papa said to Mama Izzy

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Passed around the black -eyed peas

Well Billy Joe never had a lick of sense

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Pass the biscuits please

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And there is five more acres

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on the lower 40

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I've got to plough

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And Mama said it was a shame

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about Billy Joe when he hung

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Seems that nothing ever

comes to no good

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up in Choctaw Creeks

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And now Billy Joe McAllister

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dreamt of the Tallahatchie Bridge

Her brother said he recollected

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when he and Tom and Billy Joe

Put a frog down my back

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at the Carroll County Picture Show

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And wasn't I talking to him

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at the church last Sunday night?

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I have another piece of apple pie,

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you know, it just don't seem right

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I saw her at the sawmill yesterday,

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on Choctaw Creeks

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Now you tell me Billy Joes

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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

Mama said to me, child,

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what's happened to your appetite?

I've been cooking all morning

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and you haven't touched a single bite

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That nice young preacher,

Brother Taylor,

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stopped by today

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Said he'd be pleased to

have dinner on Sunday

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Oh, oh, by the way

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He said he saw a girl

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that looked a lot like you

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Up on Choctaw Ridge

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And she and Billy Joe were throwin'

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something off the teller had she prayed

A year has come and gone

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since we heard the news about Billy Joe

Her brother married Mackie Thompson,

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they bought a store in Tupelo

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There was a virus going round,

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Papa caught it, and he died last spring

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And now Mama doesn't seem to

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want to do much of anything

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And me, I spend a lot of time

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picking flowers up and check the grid

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And drop them into the muddy water

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off the tallow hat she brings

Outro 1

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