Ode To Billy Joe chords by The Fifth Dimension

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

Verse 2

And me, well I spend a lot of

time picking flowers

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Verse 3

Up on

Choctaw

Ridge

And drop them

Verse 4

into the muddy water

Off the

Verse 5
Tallahatchie
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 (E minor) Bridge  (C major) 
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C 
F 
Bb 
And  (F major) drop them  (C major) into the muddy wa (F major) ter  (B flat major) 
C 
Off  (C major) the
Tallahatchie
Bridge