Karaoke Track: Ode To Billy Joe by Bobbie Gentey (Toshiba)

It was the third of June

another sleepy

dusty delta day

I was out choppin&#39; cotton

and my brother

was baling hay

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

And momma hollered
at the back door

Y&#39;all remember

to wipe your feet

And then she said I got

some news this morning

from Choktaw Ridge

Today

Billie Joe McAlister jumped

off the Talahachi bridge

And poppa said to momma

as he passed around

the black-eyed peas

Well Billie Joe

never had a lick of sense,

pass the biscuits please

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

And momma said it

was a shame about

Billie Joe anyhow

Seems like nothin&#39; ever

comes to no good

up on Choktaw Ridge

And now

Billie Joe McAlister jumped

off the Talahachi bridge

And brother said

he recollected when he

and Tom and Billie Joe

Done put a frog down

my back at the Carrol

County picture show

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

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

I saw him

at the saw-mill yesterday

0n Choktaw Ridge

And now you

tell me Billie Joe&#39;s jumped

off the Talahachi bridge

And momma said to me

child, what&#39;s happened

to your appetite

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

Jung 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 Choktaw Ridge

And she and Billie Joe

was throwin&#39; somethin&#39;

off the Talahachi Bridge

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

And brother married

Becky Thompsom and

bought a store in Tipolo

There was a virus goin&#39;

round, papa caught it

and he died last spring

And now momma doesn&#39;t

seem to wanna do much

of anythin&#39;

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

And drop them into

the muddy water

off the Talahachi bridge

END