Ode To Billy Joe Chords

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[Verse 1]
It [C]was the 3rd of June,
another sleepy, dusty day out today
I was out chopping cotton
and my brother was baling hay
At din[F]ner time we stopped
and walked back to the house to eat
and mama [C]holla at the back door
y 'all remember to wipe your feet
and then she said
[F]I got some news this morning
from Choctaw Ridge today
[C]Billy Joe McAllister
Jumped [Bb]off the Tallahatchie [C]Bridge
And Papa said to Mama
As he [Gm]passed around the Black Eyed [C]Peas
Well Billy Joel never had a lick of sense
[Gm]Pass the biscuits plea[C]se
There were [F]five more acres
in the lower forty
I got to plow
And mama [C]said it was a shame
About Billy Joe anyhow
Seems like [F]nothing ever comes to no good
Up there on Choctaw Ridge
And now [C]Billy Joe McAllister
Jumped [Bb]off the T[Bbsus4]allahatchie [C]Bridge
And brother said he recollected when he
[Gm]And Tom and Billy [C]Joe
Put a frog down my back
At the [Gm]Carroll County Picture [C]Show
And wasn't [F]I talking to him
At the church last Sunday night
I have an[C]other piece of that apple pie
You know it don't seem right
I [F]saw him at the sawmill yesterday
On Choctaw Ridge
And now you [C]tell me Billy Joe's
Jumped [Bb]off the Tallahatchie [C]Bridge
And Mama said to me, child,
What [Gm]happened to your appet[C]ite?
I've been cooking all morning
And you [Gm]haven't touched
a single [C]bite
That [F]nice young preacher,
Brother Taylor dropped by today
Said [C]he pleased to have dinner on Sunday
Oh, by the way
He said he [F]saw a girl
that looks a lot like you
Up on Choptown Ridge
And she and [C]Billy Joe was
blowing something
And [Bb]on that Tallahatchie B[C]ridge
A year has come and gone
Since we [Gm]heard the news
About Billy [C]Joe
And brother married Becca Thompson
They [Gm]bought a store In [C]Tupelo
There was [F]a virus going round
Papa caught it
And he died last spring
And now [C]Mama doesn't seem to
want to do much of anything
And [F]me, I spend a lot of time
picking flowers
up there on Choctaw Ridge
And [C]drop them into the muddy water
[Bb]off the Tallahatchie B[C]ridge[C]
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