Ode To Billy Joe chords by
Tammy Wynette

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Key: Bb 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
my brother was balin' 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, remember to wipe your feet"
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And then she said,
"I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge
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Today, Billy Joe MacAllister jumped
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off the Tallahatchie Bridge"
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Verse 2
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Papa said to mama,
as he passed around the blackeyed peas
"Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense,
pass the biscuits, please
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There's five more acres in the lower,
40 I've got to plow"
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And mama said it was shame about Billy Joe,
anyhow
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Seems like nothin' ever comes to
no good up on Choctaw Ridge
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And now Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped
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off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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Verse 3
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Brother said he recollected when he,
and Tom and Billie Joe
Put a frog down my back at the
Carroll 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- a apple pie,
you know, it 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 has
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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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
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That nice young preacher,
Brother Taylor, dropped by today
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Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday,
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 Billy Joe was throwing
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somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

Verse 5
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A year has come and gone since we
heard the news about Billy Joe
Brother married Becky Thompson,
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 want to do much of anything
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And me, I spend a lot of time pickin'
flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
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And drop 'em into the muddy
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water off the Tallahatchie Bridge

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