Ode To Billie Joe Chords

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[Intro 1]
[D][F#dim][D]

[Verse 1]
[D]It was the 3rd of June,
another sleepy dusty day out today
I was out chopping cotton
and my brother was bailing hay
And then at [G]dinner time
I stopped and walked by the house [D]to [G]eat
And mama [D]hollered out the back door,
y 'all remember to wipe your feet
And then she said,
[G]I got some news this morning
up from Choctaw Ridge
Today, [D]Billy Joe McAllister
jumped [A]off the Tallahatchie [D]Bridge
And Papa said to Mama
as they passed around the
black -eyed peas
Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense
and passed the biscuits, please
There [Am]are [G]five more acres
in the lower forty
I've got [C]to [G]plough
Mama [D]said it was a shame
about Billy Joe anyhow
[C]It [D]seems like [G]nothing
ever comes of no good
up on [D]Choctaw [G]Ridge
And [D]now you tell me Billy Joe
has jumped [A]off the Tallahatchie [D]Bridge
And brother said he recollected
when he and Tom and Billy Joe
Put a frog down my back
at the Garrow Canopy Show
And wasn't [G]I talking to him
after church last Sunday night?
I'll have [D]another piece of apple pie,
you know it don't seem right
I [G]saw him after summer yesterday
up on [D]Choctaw [G]Ridge
The [D]day that Billy Joe McAllister
jumped [A]off the Tallahatchie [D]Bridge
And mama says to me, child,
what's happened to your [C]appetite?
[D]I've been a -cookin' all morning
and you haven't touched a single bite
That [G]nice young preacher,
Brother Taylor,
dropped by [C]today[G]
Said he'd be [D]pleased to have
dinner on Sunday
Oh, by the [C]way
[D]He [Am]said [G]he saw a girl that looked like you
up on Choctaw Ridge
She and [D]Billy Joe was throwin' somethin'
[A]off the Tallahatchie [D]Boulevard
Well, the years come and gone
since we heard the news about Billy [C]Joe
[D]An [A]d Bro[D]ther Mary, Becky Thompson
and that bottle -stallin' T [C]-Blo
There [D]was [G]a virus goin' round,
Papa caught it and he died last spring
[Bdim]An d now[G] poo[D]r Mama
doesn't seem to wanna
do much of any[A]thing
[D]An [C]d me,[G] I spend my time
pickin' flowers
up on Choctaw [Bdim]Ridge
[G]Tossed him [D]into the muddy water
[A]off the Tallahatchie [D]Bridge
The day that village old McCallis
still jumped [A]off the Tallahatchie Bridge

[Outro 1]
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