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Ode to billy joe Gentry Bobby
##song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. ###From: ah827@rgfn.epcc.Edu (Gene L. Graham)##"Ode to Billy Joe"#Key of F, Common Time "With a beat"#Words and music by Bobbie GentryIt was the t[F7]hird of June,Another s[Cm7]leepy, dusty,I was [F7]out choppin' cottonAnd my b[Cm7]rother was bailin' hay[F7]And at d[Bb7]inner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eatAnd Mama h[F7]ollered at the back door,"Y'all re[Cm7]member to wipe your feet."[F7]Then she sai[Bb7]d,"I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw RidgeToday B[F7]illy Joe McAllisterJumped [Eb7]off the Tallahatchee Bridge[F]."Michael shawshaw95@wharton.upenn.edu---------------------------------------------------------------------Papa said to Mama, as he passed around the black-eyed peas"Well, Billy Joe never had a lick o'sense, pass the biscuits pleaseThere's five more acres in the lower forty I've go to plow."And Mama said it was a shame about Billy Joe anyhowSeems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw RidgeAnd now Billy Joe McAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge.Brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Billy JoePut a frog down my back at the Carrol Country picture showAnd wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday nightI'll have another piece of apple pie, you know, it don't seem rightI saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw RidgeAnd now you tell me Billy Joe jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge.Mama said to me, "Child, what's happened to your appetite?I been cookin' all mornin' and you haven't touched a single biteThat nice young preacher Brother Taylor dropped by todaySaid he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, Oh, by the wayHe said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw RidgeAnd she an' Billy Joe was throwin' somethin' off the Tallahatchee Bridge."A year has come and gone since we heard the news 'bout Billy JoeBrother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in TupeloThere was a virus goin' 'round, Papa caught it and died last springAnd now Mama doesn't seem to want to do much of anythingAnd me I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw RidgeAnd drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchee Bridge.Additional verses - ah827@rgfn.epcc.edu (Gene L. Graham)
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