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Ode To Billy Joe chords by 
The Fifth Dimension 
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Verse 1
C
It was the 3rd of
June, another sleepy, dusty, delta day
Gm
C
F
C
I was out chopping cotton, and my brother was building hay, oh yes he was,
F
C
G
C
and at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat, and mama hollered out the back door
Y 'all remember,
Wipe
Your
F
C
Feet.
F
And then she said, I heard the news today
from
Choctaw
C
G
Gm
Ridge.
C
They tell me
Billy
Joe
Am
Bb
McGaster jumped off
the
B
Tallahatchie
C
Em
C
Em
C
Bridge.
Papa said to mama as he passed
Gm
C
around the black eyed peas
You know that
Billy
Bb
C
Bb
C
Joe never had a liquor since
F
I got five more acres
In the lower forty I got to plow
C
And
Mama said, you know
Bb
C
It was a shame about
Billy
Joe anyhow
F
Seems like nothin' ever comes
of any good up on
Choctaw
C
F
C
Ridge
G
Eb
C
An d now
Billy
Joe
Am
Bb
McAllister jumped off the
Tallahatchie
C
F
C
Bridge
Brother said,
you know I recollect when me and
Tom and
Billy
Bb
Joe
C
F
put a frog down your back at the
C
Carroll
County
Picture
Em
C
Show
Bb
F
Say, weren't you talkin' to
him at the church last
Gm
G
Sunday night?
C
Em
C
Say, I have another piece of tea to buy.
You know it don't seem right.
F
You know I saw him at
the sawmill yesterday
Way up on
Chateau
C
G
Ridge
Eb
C
An d now you tell me
Billy
Am
Joe's
Bb
Jumped off the
C
Tallahatchie
Bridge
Mama said to me, child,
Bb
C
what's happened to your appetite?
Well, I've been cooking all morning,
you ain't touched a single bite
F
You know that nice young preacher,
Brother
G
C
Taylor, stopped by today, and he said,
I'd be pleased to have been on
Sunday, or by the way.
F
I saw a girl that looked a lot like yours,
up on
Shoptown
Breeze
C
And she and
Billy
F
Joe were throwing something
Bb
off the
Tallahatchie
C
G
C
Bridge
Em
Have mercy.
C
Well the year has come and gone
Since we heard the news
About
Billy
Joe
Brother married
Becky
Thompson
And they bought a store in
Tupelo
F
There was a virus going around,
Papa caught it, and he died last spring,
G
and now
Mama
C
But doesn't feel like doing much,
much anyway
Verse 2
F
And me, well I spend a lot of
time picking flowers
Verse 3
F
Up on
Choctaw
G
Ridge
C
And drop them
Verse 4
Bb
into the muddy water
C
Off the
Verse 5
Tallahatchie
Em
C
Bridge
F
C
F
Bb
And drop them into the muddy water
C
Off the
Tallahatchie
Bridge
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