Ode To Billy Joe chords by
Jackie Wilson
Count Basie

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Key: D major•

Verse 1

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It was the 3rd of June,

another sleepy, dusty day today

Sis was out shopping cotton,

yeah, yeah, I was bailing hay

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And at dinner time we stopped

and walked back to eat

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And my mama hollered out the back door,

Y 'all remember to wipe your feet

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Then she said,

I got some news this mornin'

from Choctaw Ridge

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Today Billy Joe McAllister

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Jumped off the Tallahassee Bridge

You know my papa said to my mama

As they passed around

the black eyed peas

Well Billy Joe never had a licker since

Pass the biscuits please

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There's five more acres in the low forty

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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 Ridge

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And now my buddy Billy Joe McAllister

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jumped off a Tallahatchie bridge

I said I recollected when me

and Tom and Billy Joe

Put a frog down since his back

at Carroll's County Picture Show

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And I was talkin' to him at church

last Sunday night

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And I saw him at the sawmill,

yeah, and it seemed all right

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I remember I saw him at

the sawmill

yesterday on Choctaw Ridge

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And now you tell me, Billy Joe

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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

Mama said to sis, child,

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what's happened

Dsus4

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to your appetite?

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I've been cooking all morning,

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and you haven't

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touched a single bite

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That nice young preacher,

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Brother Taylor dropped by yesterday

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Said he'd be pleased to have dinner

on Sunday,

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an d by the way

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He said he saw a young lady down,

down on Choptop Ridge

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Looked like you, she and Billy Joe

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was throwing something out

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At the Tallahatchie Bridge

One year has come and gone

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Since we heard the news

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about Billy Joe

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My father married Becky Thompson

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They had a story to blow

There was a virus going round

Papa thought he could die last spring

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And now my momma doesn't seem

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to want to do much of anything

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And me, I spend my time with my sis,

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picking flowers on Choctaw Ridge

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We take them and drop them

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into the muddy waters

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off of the Tallahatchie Bridge

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Bye Billy, bye buddy, oh yeah

Outro 1

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