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Download Ode to Billie Joe by Bobbie Gentry

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Bobbie Gentry Ode to Billie Joe lyrics

It was the third of June,
another sleepy, dusty Delta day
I was out choppin' cotton
and my brother was balin' hay
And at dinner time we stopped
and walked back to the house to eat
And Mama hollered out the back door
y'all remember to wipe your feet
And then she said I got some news
this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge
Today Billie Joe MacAllister
jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

And Papa said to Mama
as he passed around the blackeyed peas
Well, Billie Joe never had a lick of sense,
pass the biscuits, please
There's five more acres in the lower forty
I've got to plow
And Mama said it was shame
about Billie Joe, anyhow
Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good
up on Choctaw Ridge
And now Billie Joe MacAllister's jumped off
the Tallahatchie Bridge

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

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

A year has come 'n' gone
since we heard the news 'bout Billie Joe
And Brother married Becky Thompson,
they bought a store in Tupelo
There was a virus going 'round,
Papa caught it and he died last Spring
And now Mama doesn't seem to wanna do
much of anything
And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers
up on Choctaw Ridge
And drop them into the muddy water
off the Tallahatchie Bridge