Ode To Billy Joe

Ode To Billy Joe easy guitar chords by Jackie Wilson, Count Basie

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    • Verse 1
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    D

    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
    D

    And my mama hollered out the back door,

    Y 'all remember to wipe your feet
    G

    Then she said,

    I got some news this mornin'

    from Choctaw Ridge
    D

    Today Billy Joe McAllister
    C
    D

    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
    G

    There's five more acres in the low forty
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    G

    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
    C
    D

    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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    D

    jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

    Mama said to sis, child,
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    what's happened
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    D

    to your appetite?
    C
    Am
    D

    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,
    F
    G

    Brother Taylor dropped by yesterday
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    Said he'd be pleased to have dinner

    on Sunday,
    C
    D

    an d by the way
    G

    He said he saw a young lady down,

    down on Choptop Ridge
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    Looked like you, she and Billy Joe
    C

    was throwing something out
    D

    At the Tallahatchie Bridge

    One year has come and gone
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    Since we heard the news
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    Am

    about Billy Joe
    D

    My father married Becky Thompson
    C
    D
    C
    G

    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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    D

    to want to do much of anything
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    And me, I spend my time with my sis,
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    G

    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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    D

    Bye Billy, bye buddy, oh yeah
    Outro 1
    D

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