{t:Ode To Billy Joe}
{st:Billie Gentry (1967)}
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It was the [/] [D7] third of june another [/] sleepy dusty delta [/] day  [/] [D7] 
I was [/] [D7] out choppin' cotton and my [/] brother was bailin' [/] hay   [/] [D7]  
And at [/] [G7] dinner time we stopped and walked [/] back to the house to [/] eat [/] [G7]   
And Mama [/] [D7] hollered out the back door y'all re[/] member to wipe your [/] feet  [/] [D7]  
And then she [/] [G7] said I got some news this [/] mornin' from Choctaw [/] Ridge [/] [G7]  
Today [/] [D7↓] Billy Joe MacAllister jumped [/] [C7↓] off the Tallahatchie [/] [D7] Bridge [/] [D7] [/]   


And [/] [D7] Papa said to Mama as he [/] passed around the blackeyed [/] peas [/] [D7]
Well Billy [/] [D7] Joe never had a lick of [/] sense pass the biscuits [/] please [/] [D7]
There's [/] [G7] five more acres in the [/] lower forty I've got to [/] plow [/] [G7]
And Mama [/] [D7] said it was shame a- [/] bout Billy Joe any- [/] how [/] [D7]
Seems like [/] [G7] nothin' ever comes to no [/] good up on Choctaw [/] Ridge [/] [G7]
And now Billy [/] [D7↓] Joe MacAllister's jumped [/] [C7↓] off the Tallahatchie [/] [D7] Bridge [/] [D7] 


And [/] [D7] Brother said he recollected when [/] he and Tom and Billie [/] Joe [/] [D7] 
Put a [/] [D7] frog down my back at the [/] Carroll County picture [/] show [/] [D7] 
And wasn't [/] [G7] I talkin' to him after [/] church last Sunday [/] night [/] [G7]
I'll have a- [/] [D7] nother piece of apple pie, [/] you know it don't seem [/] right [/] [D7]
I [/] [G7] saw him at the sawmill [/] yesterday on Choctaw [/] Ridge [/] [G7] 
And now you [/] [D7↓] tell me Billie Joe's jumped [/] [C7↓] off the Tallahatchie [/] [D7] Bridge [/] [D7]


And [/] [D7] Mama said to me Child what's [/] happened to your appe- [/] tite [/] [D7]
I've been [/] [D7] cookin' all morning and you [/] haven't touched a single [/] bite [/] [D7]
That [/] [G7] nice young preacher Brother [/] Taylor dropped by to- [/] day [/] [G7]
Said he'd be [/] [D7] pleased to have dinner on [/] Sunday, oh by the [/] way [/] [D7]
He [/] [G7] said he saw a girl that looked a lot [/] like you up on Choctaw [/] Ridge [/] [G7]
And she and [/] [D7↓] Billy Joe was throwing somethin' [/] [C7↓] off the Tallahatchie [/] [D7] Bridge [/] [D7]


A [/] [D7] year has come 'n' gone since we [/] heard the news 'bout Billy [/] Joe [/] [D7]
And [/] [D7] Brother married Becky Thompson they [/] bought a store in Tupe- [/] lo [/] [D7]
There was a [/] [G7] virus going 'round Papa [/] caught it and he died last [/] Spring [/] [G7]
And now [/] [D7] Mama doesn't seem to wanna [/] do much of any- [/] thing [/] [D7]
And [/] [G7] me I spend a lot of time pickin' [/] flowers up on Choctaw [/] Ridge [/] [G7]
And drop them [/] [D7↓] into the muddy water [/] [C7↓] off the Tallahatchie [/] [D7] Bridge [/] [D7]


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