Ode To Billy Joe

Ode To Billy Joe easy guitar chords by The Fifth Dimension

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Capo
  • C

  • Gm

    3
  • F

  • G

  • Am

  • Bb

  • B

    2
  • Em

  • Eb

    6
  • C

  • Gm

    3
  • F

  • G

  • Am

  • Bb

  • B

    2
  • Em

  • Eb

    6
  • 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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