Ode To Billy Joe chords by
Phranc

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Key: D major

Verse 1
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It was the third of June,
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another sleepy, dusty Delta day
I was out choppin' cotton and
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my brother was bailin' hay
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And at dinner time we stopped and
walked back to the house to eat
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And Mama hollered out the back door "Y'all
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remember to wipe your feet"
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And then she said "I got some news this morn
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in' from Choctaw Ridge"
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"Today Billie Joe MacAllister jumped
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off the Tallahatchie Bridge"
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Verse 2
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And Papa said to Mama as he passed
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around the black- eyed peas
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"Well, Billie 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
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lower forty I've got to plow"
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And Mama said "It was a shame about Billie Joe,
anyhow"
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"Seems like nothin' ever comes to
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no good on Choctaw Ridge"
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"And now Billie Joe MacAllister's
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge."
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Verse 3
And Brother said he recollected when
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he  and Tom and Billie Joe
Put a frog down my back at the Car
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roll County picture show
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And wasn't I talkin' to him after
church last Sunday night?
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"I'll have another piece of apple pie,
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you know it just don't seem right"
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"I saw him at the sawmill yesterday
on Choctaw Ridge"
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"And now you tell me Billie Joe's
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

Verse 4
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And 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 and you
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haven't touched a single bite"
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"That nice young preacher,
Brother Taylor, stopped 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 up on Choctaw Ridge"
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"And she and Billie Joe was throwing
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somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge"
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Verse 5
A year has come 'n' gone since we heard
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the news 'bout Billie Joe
And Brother married Becky Thompson,
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they bought a store in Tupelo
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There was a virus going 'round,
Papa caught it and he died last Spring
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And now Mama doesn't seem to wanna
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do much of anything
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And me, I  spend a lot of time pickin'
flowers on Choctaw Ridge
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I throw them into the muddy water
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off the Tallahatchie Bridge

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