Ode To Billie Joe

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D7Twas the third of june another sleepy dusty delta day
D7I was out choppin cotton and my brother was balin' hay
G7And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
D7And Mama hollered out the back door "y'all remember to wipe your feet
G7And then she said "I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge"
Today Billy D7Joe MacAllister jumped C7off the Tallahatchie D7Bridge"

D7And Papa said to Mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas
D7Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits, please"
G7There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow"
D7And Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe, anyhow
G7Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge
And now Billy D7Joe MacAllister's jumped C7off the Tallahatchie D7Bridge

D7And Brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Billie Joe
D7Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show
G7And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night?
D7I'll have another piece of apple pie, you know it don't seem right
G7I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge
And now you tell D7me Billie Joe's jumped C7off the Tallahatchie D7Bridge

D7And Mama said to me "Child, what's happened to your appetite?
D7I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't touched a single bite
G7That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today
D7Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way
G7He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge
And she and D7Billy Joe was throwing somethin' C7off the Tallahatchie D7Bridge"

D7A year has come 'n' gone since we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe
D7And Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo
G7There was a virus going 'round, Papa caught it and he died last Spring
D7And now Mama doesn't seem to wanna do much of anything
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