Ode To Billy Joe chords by
The Fifth Dimension

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Verse 1
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It was the 3rd of
June, another sleepy, dusty, delta day
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I  was out chopping cotton, and my brother was building hay, oh yes he was,
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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
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Feet.
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And then she said, I heard the news today
from
Choctaw
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Ridge.
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They tell me
Billy
Joe
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McGaster jumped off
the
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Tallahatchie
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Bridge.
Papa said to mama as he passed
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around the black eyed peas
You know that
Billy
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Joe never had a liquor since
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I got five more acres
In the lower forty I got to plow
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And
Mama said, you know
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It  was a shame about
Billy
Joe anyhow
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Seems like nothin' ever comes
of any good up on
Choctaw
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Ridge
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An d   now
Billy
Joe
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McAllister jumped off the
Tallahatchie
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Bridge
Brother said,
you know I recollect when me and
Tom and
Billy
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Joe
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put a frog down your back at the
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Carroll
County
Picture
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Show
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Say, weren't you talkin' to
him at the church last
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Sunday night?
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Say, I have another piece of tea to buy.
You know it don't seem right.
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You know I  saw him at
the sawmill yesterday
Way up on
Chateau
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Ridge
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An  d now you tell me
Billy
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Joe's
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Jumped off the
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Tallahatchie
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Mama said to me, child,
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what's happened to your appetite?
Well, I've been cooking all morning,
you ain't touched a single bite
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You know that nice young preacher,
Brother
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Taylor, stopped by today, and he said,
I'd be pleased to have been on
Sunday, or by the way.
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I saw a girl that looked a lot like yours,
up on
Shoptown
Breeze
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And  she and
Billy
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Joe were throwing something
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off the
Tallahatchie
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Bridge
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Have mercy.
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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
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There was a virus going around,
Papa caught it, and he died last spring,
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and  now
Mama
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But doesn't feel like doing much,
much anyway

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And me, well I spend a lot of

time picking flowers

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Up on

Choctaw

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And drop them

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into the muddy water

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Verse 5
Tallahatchie
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Bridge
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And drop them into the muddy water
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Off the
Tallahatchie
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