Karaoke Track: Ode To Billy Joe by Bobbie Gentry (Sunfly)

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BILLY JOE-

It was the third of June,
another sleepy,
dusty Delta day

Iwas out choppin&#39; cotton
and my brother
was bailin&#39; hay

And at dinner time we stopped
and walked back
to the house to eat

And Mama hollered out
the back door
y&#39;all remember
to wipe your feet

And then she said
I got some news this momin&#39;
from Choctaw Ridge

Today Billy J 09 McAlester
jumped off the
Tallahatchee Bridge

And Papa said to Mama
as he passed around
the black-eyed peas

Well Billy J 00 never had a lick
of sense, pass
he biscuits, please

There&#39;s five more acres
in the lower forty
I&#39;ve got to plough

And Mama said it was shame
about Billy Joe, anyhow

Seems like nothin&#39;
ever comes to any good
up on Choctaw Ridge

And nonr Billy J oe McAllister&#39;s
jumped off the
Tallahatchee Bridge

And brother said he recollected
When he and Tom and Billie J oe

Put a frog down my back
at the Carroll County
picture show

And wasn&#39;t I talkin&#39; to him
after church last Sunday night

I&#39;ll have another piece-a
apple pie,
you know it don&#39;t seem right

I saw him at the sawmill
yesterday on Choctaw Ridge

And now ya tell me
Billie Joe&#39;s jumped off
the Tallahatchee Bridge

And Mama said to me
Child, what&#39;s happened
to your appetite

I&#39;ve been cookin&#39; all morning
and you haven&#39;t touched
a single bite

That nice ymmg preacher,
Brother Taylor,
dropped by today

Said he&#39;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 Billy J oe
was throwing somethin&#39; off
the Tallahatchee Bridge

A year has come and gone
since we heard the news
&#39;bout Billy Joe

And brother married
Becky Thompson,
they bought a store in Tupelo

There was a Virus going &#39;round,
Papa caught it and
he died last Spring

And nonr Mama doesn&#39;t seem
to wanna do much of anything

And me, I spend a lot of time
pickin&#39; flowers
up on Choctaw Ridge

And drop them into
the muddy water
off the Tallahatchee Bridge

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