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Ode To Billy Joe chords by
Marilyn Maye
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Key: F major•
Verse 1
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It was
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the 3rd of June,
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another sleepy Dus terdale today

I was out a -choppin' cuttin'
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and my brother was bailin' hay
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And at dinnertime we stopped
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and walked back to the house to eat
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And Mama hollered at the back door,
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you'll remember to wipe your feet

And then she said,
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I got some news this morning

from Chuck Dorich
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Today, Billy Joe McAllister
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jumped off the Tallahatchie
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Bridge
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Papa said to Mama

as he passed around
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the black -eyed peas

Oh, Billy Joe never had a licker since
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Pass the biscuits, please
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And I've got five more acres
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in the lower forty I've got to plow
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And mama said it was a shame
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about Billy Joe anyhow
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Seems like nothing ever comes to no good
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up on Choctaw Ridge
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And now Billy Joe McCallister's
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above the Tallahatchie
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Bridge
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Brother said he recollected
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when he and Tom and Billy Joe

They put a frog down my back
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at the Carroll County Picture Show
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Yeah, and wasn't I talkin' to him
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at the church last Sunday night?
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I'll have another piece

of apple pie,
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you know, it don't seem right
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Well, I saw him at the sawmill

yesterday
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up on Choctaw Ridge
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And now you tell me Billy Joe's
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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Mama said to me, child,
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what's happened to your appetite?

Say I've been cookin' all morning
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and you haven't touched a single bite
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That nice young preacher brother
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Taylor dropped by today
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Said he'd be pleased to

have dinner on Sunday
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Oh, by the way
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He said he saw a girl

that looked a lot like you
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Up on Choctaw Ridge
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And she and Billy Joe was

throwing something
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On the Tallahatchie Bridge
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Well now a year has come and gone
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Since we heard the news
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about Billy Joe

Brother married Becky Thompson
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They bought a store up in Tupelo
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There was a virus going round
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Papa caught it and he died last spring
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And now mama doesn't seem to
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want to do much of any thing
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And me, spend a lot of time
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picking flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
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And drop them into the muddy water
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up on Tallahatchie Bridge
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And drop them into the muddy water
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off the Tallahatchie Bridge.

Drop them into the water

off the Tallahatchie Bridge.

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An acoustic guitar head with tuning pegs

Tuning:Standard Open Tuner
Chords

  • D

  • G

  • Am

  • Dm

  • C

  • Eb

    6

  • Ab

    4

  • Bbm

  • Gb

    2

  • Ebm

    6

  • Db

    4

Capo: 3

Transpose: 0

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The original key of Ode To Billy Joe by Marilyn Maye is F major.

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