Ode To Billy Joe-Graham Blvd

[ti:Ode To Billy Joe] [ar:Graham Blvd.] [al:Top of the Charts 1960 Vol.5] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ode To Billy Joe - Graham Blvd. [00:08.36]It was the 3rd of June, another [00:10.90]Sleepy dusty Delta day. [00:13.66] [00:16.75]I was out choppin' cotton and my [00:19.12]Brother was bailin' hay. [00:22.21] [00:24.93]And at dinner time we stopped and [00:27.09]Walked back to the house to eat. [00:30.43] [00:33.05]And mama hollered out the backdoor, [00:35.11]"Y'all remember to wipe your feet." [00:38.68] [00:41.09]And then she said, "I got some news [00:42.95]This mornin' from Choctaw Ridge. [00:47.30] [00:49.11]Today Billy Joe Macallister's jumped [00:51.99]Off the Tallahatchee Bridge. " [00:55.49] [00:58.07]Papa said to mama as he passed [01:00.61]Around the blackeyed peas, [01:03.23] [01:06.09]"Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense; [01:08.80] [01:09.41]Pass the biscuits please. [01:11.54] [01:14.29]There's 5 more acres in the lower [01:16.72]40 I got to plow. " [01:20.25] [01:22.56]And mama said it was a shame about [01:24.62]Billy Joe anyhow. [01:27.83] [01:30.20]Seems like nothin' ever comes to no [01:32.57]Good up on Choctaw Ridge, [01:36.41] [01:38.59]And now Billy Joe Macallister's [01:40.90]Jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge. [01:44.24] [01:46.67]And brother said he recollected [01:48.58]When he and Tom and Billy Joe [01:52.76] [01:54.88]Put a frog down my back at the [01:57.39]Carroll County picture show. [02:00.98] [02:03.18]And wasn't I talkin' to him after [02:05.49]Church last Sunday night? [02:09.38] [02:11.20]"I'll have another piece of apple pie; [02:14.28]You know it don't seem right. [02:16.93] [02:19.69]I saw him at the sawmill yesterday [02:22.25] [02:22.86]On Choctaw Ridge [02:25.87] [02:27.57]And now you tell me Billy Joe's [02:29.73]Jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge. " [02:33.63] [02:36.11]And mama said to me, [02:37.55]"Child what's happened to your appetite? [02:40.87] [02:43.94]I been cookin' all morning and [02:46.25]You haven't touched a single bite. [02:49.38] [02:52.46]That nice young preacher brother [02:54.53]Taylor dropped by today, [02:57.84] [03:00.08]Said he'd be pleased to have dinner [03:01.98]On Sunday; oh by the way, [03:05.90] [03:08.80]He said he saw a girl that looked a [03:10.87]Lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge, [03:14.22] [03:16.65]And she and Billy Joe was throwin' [03:18.67]Something off the Tallahatchee Bridge. " [03:22.89] [03:25.40]A year's come and gone since we [03:27.35]Heard the news 'bout Billy Joe. [03:30.33] [03:33.28]'N brother married Becky Thompson [03:35.50]'N' they bought a store in Tupelo. [03:38.64] [03:41.22]There was a virus goin' round, papa [03:43.61]Caught it and he died last spring, [03:46.85] [03:49.53]And now mama doesn't seem to wanna [03:51.84]Do much of anything. [03:54.94] [03:57.87]And me, I spend a lotta time pickin' [04:00.22]Flowers up on Choctaw Ridge, [04:03.56] [04:05.99]And drop 'em into the muddy water [04:08.55]Off the Tallahatchee bridge