Karaoke Track: Ode To Billy Joe by Gentry, Bobby (Sing to the World) - Karaoke Nerds

Ode To

Billlly Jloe

Made Famous Byz BOBBIE GENTRY

(Q www.singtotheworld.com

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It was the third of June.

Another sleepy, dusty
Delta day

It was the third of June.

Another sleepy, dusty
Delta day

l was out chopping

cotton and my brother
was baling hay

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

eat

And Mama hollered out
the back door, Y'all

remember to wipe your
feet

And then she said,
I got some news this

morning from Choctaw
Ridge

Today,
Billy-Joe MacAllister

jumped off the
Tallahatchie Bridge

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

Well, Billy-Joe never
had a lick of sense. Pass
the biscuits, please

There's five more

acres in the lower forty,
I've got to plow

And Mama said it was

a shame about
Billy-Joe, anyhow

Seems like nothin' ever

comes to no good up
on Choctaw Ridge

And now
BiIIy-Joe MacAllister's

jumped off the
Tallahatchie Bridge

And brother said he

recbllected when he
and Tom and Billy-Joe

Had put a frog down

my back at the Carroll
County picture show

And wasn't I talking to

him after church last
Sunday night?

I'll have another piece

of apple pie, y'know it
don't seem right

I saw him at the

sawmill yesterday on
Choctaw Ridge

And now you tell me
Billy-Joe's jumped off
the Tallahatchie Bridge

And Mama said to me,

Child, what's happened
to your appetite?

I've been cooking all
morning and you haVen't
touched a single bite

That nice young

preacher, Brother Taylor
dropped by today

Said he'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
BiIIy-Joe was throwing

something off the
Tallahatchie Bridge

A year has come
and gonk since we

heard the news 'bout
Billy-Joe

And brother married
Becky Thompson.

They bought a store
in Tupelo

There was a virus
going 'round, Papa

caught it and he died
last Spring

And now Mama doesn't

seem to wanna do much
of anything

And me, I spend a lot of

time picking flowers up
on Choctaw Ridge

And drop them into
the muddy water, off the
Tallahatchie Bridge

Title: Ode To Billy Joe
Artist: Gentry, Bobby
Brand: Sing to the World
(3 Other Versions)
Code: STTW2934-04