Ode To Billy Joe chords by Tammy Wynette
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Verse 1
It (G major) was the third of June,
another sleepy, dusty Delta day (D major)
I was out choppin' cotton and
my brother was balin' hay
And at (G major) dinner time we stopped and
walked back to the house to eat
And mama (D major) hollered out the back door,
"Y'all, remember to wipe your feet"
And then she said, (G major)
"I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge
Today, Billy (D major) Joe MacAllister jumped
(C major) off the Tallahatchie Bridge"
(D major)
Verse 2
(D major) Papa said to mama,
as he passed around the blackeyed peas
"Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense,
pass the biscuits, please
There's (G major) five more acres in the lower,
40 I've got to plow"
And mama said (D major) it was shame about Billy Joe,
anyhow
Seems like (G major) nothin' ever comes to
no good up on Choctaw Ridge
And now Billy (D major) Joe MacAllister's jumped
(C major) off the Tallahatchie Bridge
(D major)
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Verse 3
(D major) Brother said he recollected when he,
and Tom and Billie Joe
Put a frog down my back at the
Carroll County picture show
And wasn't (G major) I talkin' to him
after church last Sunday night?
I'll have an (D major) other piece- a apple pie,
you know, it don't seem right
I saw (G major) him at the sawmill yesterday
on Choctaw Ridge
And now you (D major) tell me Billie Joe has
jumped (C major) off the Tallahatchie Bridge
(D major)
Verse 4
And mama said to me, "Child,
what's happened to your appetite?
Well, I've been cookin' all morning,
and you haven't touched a single bite
That nice (G major) young preacher,
Brother Taylor, dropped by today
Said he'd be (D major) pleased to have dinner on Sunday,
oh, by the way
He said he saw (G major) a girl that looked a lot
like you up on Choctaw Ridge
And she and (D major) Billy Joe was throwing
somethin' (C major) off the Tallahatchie (D major) Bridge"
Verse 5
A (D major) year has come and gone since we
heard the news about Billy Joe
Brother married Becky Thompson,
they bought a store in Tupelo
There was a virus (G major) going 'round,
papa caught it and he died last spring
And now mama (D major) doesn't seem
to want to do much of anything
And (G major) me, I spend a lot of time pickin'
flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
And drop 'em (D major) into the muddy
water (C major) off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Ode To Billy Joe
Tammy Wynette
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