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Version 2 of Bobbie Gentry Lyrics Ode To Billie Joe (http://www.mp3lyrics.org/b/bobbie-gentry/ode/v2.html) Version 2 of the lyrics | ||||||||||||
| 1 | It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty, delta day | It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty | 1 | ||||||||||
| 2 | I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hay | Delta day I was out choppin' cotton and my brother | 2 | ||||||||||
| 3 | And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat | was balin' hay And at dinner time we stopped and | 3 | ||||||||||
| 4 | And Mama hollered out the back door, "Y'all remember to wipe your feet" | walked back to the house to eat And Mama hollered | 4 | ||||||||||
| 5 | Then she said, "I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge | out the back door "y'all remember to wipe | 5 | ||||||||||
| 6 | Today Billie Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge" | your feet" And then she said "I got some | 6 | ||||||||||
| 1 | news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge" | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2 | "Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the | 2 | |||||||||||
| 3 | Tallahatchie Bridge" | 3 | |||||||||||
| 7 | Papa said to Mama as he passed around the black-eyed peas | And Papa said to Mama as he passed around the | 7 | ||||||||||
| 8 | "Well, Billie Joe never had a lick o' sense, pass the biscuits, please | blackeyed peas "Well, Billy Joe never had a | 8 | ||||||||||
| 9 | There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow" | lick of sense, pass the biscuits, please" | 9 | ||||||||||
| 10 | And Mama said it was a shame about Billie Joe anyhow | "There's five more acres in the lower forty | 10 | ||||||||||
| 11 | Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge | I've got to plow" And Mama said it was shame | 11 | ||||||||||
| 12 | And now Billie Joe McAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge | about Billy Joe, anyhow Seems like nothin' ever | 12 | ||||||||||
| 4 | comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge And now Billy | 4 | |||||||||||
| 5 | Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie | 5 | |||||||||||
| 6 | Bridge | 6 | |||||||||||
| 13 | Brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Billie Joe | And Brother said he recollected when he and Tom | 13 | ||||||||||
| 14 | Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show | and Billie Joe Put a frog down my back at the | 14 | ||||||||||
| 15 | And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night | Carroll County picture show And wasn't I talkin' | 15 | ||||||||||
| 16 | I'll have another piece of apple pie, you know, it don't seem right | to him after church last Sunday night? "I'll | 16 | ||||||||||
| 17 | I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge | have another piece of apple pie, you know it don't | 17 | ||||||||||
| 18 | And now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge | seem right" "I saw him at the sawmill | 18 | ||||||||||
| 7 | yesterday on Choctaw Ridge" "And now you | 7 | |||||||||||
| 8 | tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie | 8 | |||||||||||
| 9 | Bridge" | 9 | |||||||||||
| 19 | Mama said to me, "Child what's happened to your appetite? | And Mama said to me "Child, what's happened | 19 | ||||||||||
| 20 | I been cookin' all mornin' and you haven't touched single bite | to your appetite?" "I've been cookin' | 20 | ||||||||||
| 21 | That nice young preacher Brother Taylor dropped by today | all morning and you haven't touched a single | 21 | ||||||||||
| 22 | Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh by the way | bite" "That nice young preacher, Brother | 22 | ||||||||||
| 23 | He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge | Taylor, dropped by today" "Said he'd be | 23 | ||||||||||
| 24 | And she and Billie Joe was throwin' somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge" | pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the | 24 | ||||||||||
| 10 | way" "He said he saw a girl that looked | 10 | |||||||||||
| 11 | a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge" "And | 11 | |||||||||||
| 12 | she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the | 12 | |||||||||||
| 13 | Tallahatchie Bridge" | 13 | |||||||||||
| 25 | A year has come and gone since I heard the news 'bout Billie Joe | A year has come 'n' gone since we heard the news | 25 | ||||||||||
| 26 | Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo | 'bout Billy Joe And Brother married Becky | 26 | ||||||||||
| 27 | There was a virus goin' round, papa caught it and he died last spring | Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo There was | 27 | ||||||||||
| 28 | And now Mama doesn't seem to want to do much of anything | a virus going 'round, Papa caught it and he died | 28 | ||||||||||
| 29 | And me I spend a lot of time picking flowers up on Choctaw Ridge | last Spring And now Mama doesn't seem to wanna do | 29 | ||||||||||
| And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge | much of anything And me, I spend a lot of time | ||||||||||||
| 14 | pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge | 14 | |||||||||||
| 15 | 15 | ||||||||||||
| 16 | And drop them into the muddy water off the | 16 | |||||||||||
| 17 | Tallahatchie Bridge | 17 | |||||||||||
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