Ode To Billy Joe chords by Nicole Croisille

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Intro 1
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I'm going show it.

Verse 1
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It was the 3rd of
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June, another sleepy, dusty, delta day
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I  was out chopping cotton and
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my brother was failing hay
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And at dinner time we stopped and
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walked back to  the house to eat
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Mama hollered at the back door,
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you all remember to wipe your feet
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And she said,
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I got some news this morning up from
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Today
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Billy
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McAllister's jumped off the
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Papa said to
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Mama as he passed around the
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Well,
Billy
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Joe never had a nickel since past the
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Biscuits
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Breeze
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I got five more acres on the lower
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forty I got to plow
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Mama said it was a shame about
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Joe anyhow
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Seems  like nothing ever
comes to no good up on
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And  now
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McAllister's jumped off the
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And
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Mama said, child,
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what's happened to your appetite?
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Well, I've been cooking all morning and
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you haven't touched a single bite
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You know this young preacher brother
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Taylor dropped by  today
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He said he'd be pleased
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to have dinner on
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Sunday
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By the way, he said he saw a girl
that looked a lot like you up on
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And she really sure was throwing
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something off the
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Interlude 1

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A year has

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come and gone
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since we heard the news
About
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Joel
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Brother married
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Thompson
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Bought a store in
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Buffalo
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There was a virus goin' round
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Father caught it and he died
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last spring
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And my mama doesn't
seem to wanna do much
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Or anything
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Me, I spend a lot of time
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picking flowers up on
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Choctaw
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And drop them into the muddy
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waters from the
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Tallahatchie
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Bridge
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Don't you worry a thing
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Billy
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Joe
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