Ode to Billie Joe

Ode to Billie Joe Lyrics

Song Ode to Billie Joe
Artist Nancy Wilson
Album Blue Juice. Squeeze . .
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[00:10.03] It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day
[00:19.84] I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hay
[00:30.75] And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
[00:40.87] And Mama hollered out the back door "y'all remember to wipe your feet"
[00:50.93] And then she said "I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge"
[01:01.77] "Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"
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[01:12.70] And Papa said to Mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas
[01:22.31] "Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits, please"
[01:31.25] "There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow"
[01:40.93] And Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe, anyhow
[01:50.76] Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge
[02:00.86] And now Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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[02:11.38] And Brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Billie Joe
[02:20.39] Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show
[02:30.39] And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night?
[02:40.24] "I'll have another piece of apple pie, you know it don't seem right"
[02:50.84] "I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge"
[03:00.27] "And now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"
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[03:10.28] And Mama said to me "Child, what's happened to your appetite?"
[03:19.75] "I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't touched a single bite"
[03:29.69] "That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today"
[03:38.81] "Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way"
[03:49.13] "He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge"
[03:58.15] "And she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge"
[04:07.94] A year has come 'n' gone since we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe
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[04:17.37] And Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo
[04:26.79] There was a virus going 'round, Papa caught it and he died last Spring
[04:36.68] And now Mama doesn't seem to wanna do much of anything
[04:46.57] And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
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[04:56.54] And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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