Ode To Billy Joe chords by Beccy Cole, Melinda schneider
Verse 1
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It was the 3rd of June,
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another sleepy, dusty day.
I was out chopping cotton
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and my brother was baling hay.
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And at dinnertime we stopped
and walked back to the house to eat
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And mama hollered out the back door,
y 'all remember to wipe your feet
Then she said,
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I got some news this morning
from Choctaw Breach
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Today, Billy Joe McAllister
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jumped off the Talla hatchie Bridge
And Papa said to Mama
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as he passed around the
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black -eyed peas
Well, Billy Joe never had a licker
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since past the biscuit fleas
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There's five more acres in the lower 40
I've got to plow
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And mama said it was a shame
about Billy Joe anyhow
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Seems like nothing ever comes to no good
up on Choctaw Bridge
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Now Billy Joel McAllister
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
And brother said he recollected
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when he and Tom and Billy Joel
Put a frog down my back
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at the Carroll County
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Picture Show
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Wasn't I talking to him at the church
on Sunday night
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I'll have another piece of apple pie
You know it don't seem right
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I saw him at the sawmill
yesterday up on Choctaw
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And now you tell me Billy Joe has jumped
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off the Tallahatchie Bridge
And 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,
dropped by today
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Said he'd be pleased to have dinner
on a Sunday
Oh, by the way
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He said he saw a girl that looked like you
Up on Choctaw Bridge
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And she and Billy Joe was throwing
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something off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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Verse 2
The years come and gone
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since we heard the news
about Billy Joel
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Verse 3
My brother married Becky Thompson,
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they bought a store in Tupelo
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Verse 4
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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 momma doesn't seem
to want to do much of anything
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And me, spend a lot of time
picking flowers
up on Choctaw Ridge
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And dropping them into the muddy waters
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of the Tallahatchie Bridge
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Ode To Billy Joe
Beccy Cole, Melinda Schneider
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