Ode To Billy Joe chords by Dorothy Moore

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Verse 1
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It was the 3rd of June,
another sleepy, dusty day out today
I was out chopping cotton
and my brother was baling hay
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At dinner time we stopped
and walked back to the house to eat
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and mama holla at the back door
y 'all remember to wipe your feet
and then she said
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I got some news this morning
from Choctaw Ridge today
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Billy Joe McAllister
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Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
And Papa said to Mama
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As he passed around the Black Eyed Peas
Well Billy Joel never had a lick of sense
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Pass the biscuits please
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There were five more acres
in the lower forty
I 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 there on Choctaw Ridge
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And now Billy Joe McAllister
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Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
And brother said he recollected when he
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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
At the church last Sunday night
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I have another piece of that apple pie
You know it 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 Billy Joe's
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Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
And Mama said to me, child,
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What happened to your appetite?
I've been cooking all morning
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And you haven't touched
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a single bite
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That nice young preacher,
Brother Taylor dropped by today
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Said he pleased to have dinner on Sunday
Oh, by the way
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He said he saw a girl
that looks a lot like you
Up on Choptown Ridge
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And she and Billy Joe was
blowing something
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And on  that Tallahatchie Bridge
A year has come and gone
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Since we heard the news
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About Billy Joe
And brother married Becca Thompson
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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
want to do much of anything
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And me, I spend a lot of time
picking flowers
up there on Choctaw Ridge
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And drop them into the muddy water
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off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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