Bobbie Gentry – Ode To Billy Joe chords

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E D E1. It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day,
D E I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hay.
A And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat,
E D E and Mama hollered at the back door, "Y'all remember to wipe your feet!"
A And then she said, "I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge.
E D E Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge."
E D E2. And Papa said to Mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas,
D E "Oh, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits, please.
A There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plough."
E D E and Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe, anyhow.
A ”Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge,
E D E and now Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge.”
E D E3. And Brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Billie Joe
D E put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show.
A And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night?
E - D E "I'll have another piece of apple pie, you know it don't seem right.
A I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge,
E D E and now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge."
E D E4. And Mama said to me, "Child, what's happened to your appetite?
D E I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't touched a single bite."
A That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today,
E D E said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way,
A he said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge,"
E D E And she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge"
E D E5. A year has come 'n' gone since we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe,
D E and Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo.
A There was a virus going 'round, Papa caught it and he died last Spring,
E D E and now Mama doesn't seem to wanna do much of anything.
A And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge,
E D E and drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge.
(Bobbie Gentry)
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