Ode to billy joe chords by Lee Hazlewood

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Verse 1
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It was the 3rd of June,
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another sleepy, dusty, delta day
And 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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Mama hollered out 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
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Today, 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
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black -eyed peas
Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense
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Pass the biscuits, please
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There's five more acres in the lower 40
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 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
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when he and Tom and Billy Joe
Put a frog down my back
at the Carroll County Picture Show
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And wasn't I  talkin' to her
at the church last 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 her at the sawmill
yesterday on Choctaw Ridge
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And now you tell me Billy Joes
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Mama said to me, child,
what's happened to your appetite?
Well, I've been cookin' all mornin'
and you haven't touched a single bite
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That nice young preacher's sister
Taylor dropped by today
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Said she'd be pleased
to have dinner on Sunday
And oh, by the way
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She said she saw a boy
that looked a lot like you
up on Choctaw Ridge
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And he and Billy Joe was throwin'
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somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge you