ode to Billy Joe chords by 
Bobby Angel 
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Key: Bb major•
Verse 1
F
Cm
F
It was the 3rd of June,
Cm
F
another sleepy, dusty day out today
Well I was out chopping cotton
Cm
F
and my brother was baling hay
Bb
And at dinnertime we stopped
and walked back to the house
to have a bite to eat
F
And Mama hollered out the back door,
hey remember to wipe your feet
Bb
Then she said,
I've got some news this morning
from on Choctaw Ridge
F
Today, Billy Joe McCallister
Eb
F
jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Papa said to Mama
Cm
F
as he passed around the
black -eyed bees
Well, Billy Joe never had to let the scent pass the biscuits,
please
Bb
There are five more acres
in the lower forty I've got to plow
F
Mama said it was a shame
about Billy Joe anyhow
Cm
Bb
Seems like nothing ever
comes to no good
upon a chopped down ridge
F
And now Billy Joel McAllister
Eb
jumped off the Tallahatchie
F
F#
Bridge
Mama said to me, child,
C#m
what's happened to your appetite?
F#
I've been cooking all morning
C#m
and you haven't touched
F#
a single bite
B
That nice young creature,
Brother Taylor,
dropped by today
F#
Said he'd be pleased to have dinner
on Sunday, by the way
B
Said he saw a boy that looked a lot like you
up on Choctaw Ridge
F#
And him and Billy Joe
were throwin' somethin'
E
F#
off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Years come and gone
C#m
since they heard the news
F#
about Billy Joe
Brother married Becky Thompson,
C#m
F#
bought a star and two pil lows
C#m
B
There was a virus going round
and round in of Cornish
and he died last spring
F#
Now mama doesn't seem to want
to do much of anything
C#m
B
And me, I spend a lot of time
picking flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
G#
F#
And drop them into the muddy water
E
of the Tallahatchie Bridge
Outro 1
F#
C#m
F#
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF Cm Bb Eb F#...
F
Cm
Bb
Eb
F#
C#m
B
E
G#
Capo: 3
Transpose: 0
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