Ode To Billy Joe chords by
Mary Kadderly

N/A

Key: D major

Intro 1

It was the

Verse 1
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3rd of June,
another sleepy dusty
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Delta day
I was out chopping cotton
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and my brother,
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he was bailing hay
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And  at dinnertime we stopped
and walked on back to the house to eat
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And  mama hollered at the back door
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You all remember to wipe your feet
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Then she said, I got some news this
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morning from Charter Ridge
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Today, Billy Joe McAllister
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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?
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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
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brother Taylor
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dropped on       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
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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 off the tower had she breathed
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We are turning right to Session Road
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Since we heard the news
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about Billy Joe
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Brother married Becky Thompson
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An d   they bought a store in Tupelo
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There was a virus going round
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Papa caught it and he died
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last spring
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Mama doesn't seem to want
to do much of anything
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I   spend a lot of time picking  flowers
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up on Choctaw Ridge
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And wrap them in the mighty water
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of the Tallahatchie Bridge
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And drop you in the mighty water
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Of the Tallahatchie Bridge

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