Ode to Billie Joe-Country Hit Superstars/Country Music All-Stars/Country Pop All-Stars

[ti:Ode to Billie Joe (In the Style of Bobbie Gentry) (Demo Vocal Version)] [ar:ProSource Karaoke] [al:Ode to Billie Joe (In the Style of Bobbie Gentry) (Karaoke Version) - Single] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ode to Billie Joe - Country Hit Superstars/Country Music All-Stars/Country Pop All-Stars [00:08.21]It was the third of June [00:10.01]Another sleepy dusty Delta day [00:13.34] [00:16.67]I was out choppin' cotton [00:18.19]And my brother was balin' hay [00:21.19] [00:24.67]And at dinner time we stopped [00:26.51]And walked back to the house to eat [00:30.49] [00:32.53]And Mama hollered out the back [00:34.29]Door "y'all remember to wipe your feet" [00:38.56] [00:40.84]And then she said "I got some news [00:42.89]This mornin' from Choctaw Ridge" [00:47.07] [00:48.95]"Today Billy Joe [00:49.94]MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge" [00:54.51] [00:57.39]'N' Papa said to Mama as [00:59.69]He passed around the blackeyed peas [01:03.37] [01:05.41]"Well Billy Joe never had a lick of sense [01:07.59] [01:08.70]Pass the biscuits please" [01:10.87] [01:13.68]"There's five more acres [01:15.64]In the lower forty I've got to plow" [01:20.65] [01:21.54]'N' Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe anyhow [01:27.67] [01:29.70]Seems like nothin' ever [01:30.56]Comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge [01:36.63] [01:37.90]And now Billy Joe MacAllister's [01:40.05]Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge [01:42.28] [01:46.31]'N' Brother said he recollected when [01:48.11]He and Tom and Billie Joe [01:51.90] [01:54.21]Put a frog down my back [01:56.20]At the Carroll County picture show [01:59.12] [02:01.98]And wasn't I talkin' to [02:03.55]Him after church last Sunday night [02:08.22] [02:10.28]"I'll have another piece-a apple pie [02:12.40] [02:13.72]You know it don't seem right" [02:15.99] [02:18.82]"I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge" [02:24.60] [02:26.39]"And now ya tell me [02:27.60]Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge" [02:31.90] [02:35.09]'N' Mama said to me "Child [02:37.14]What's happened to your appetite " [02:41.07] [02:42.85]"I've been cookin' all morning and [02:45.68]You haven't touched a single bite" [02:48.19] [02:51.39]"That nice young preacher [02:53.29]Brother Taylor dropped by today" [02:56.63] [02:59.03]"Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday oh [03:03.09]By the way" [03:04.41] [03:07.94]"He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like [03:10.40]You up on Choctaw Ridge" [03:13.46] [03:15.18]"And she and Billy Joe was throwing [03:17.59]Somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge" [03:21.03] [03:24.02]A year has come 'n' gone since [03:26.26]We heard the news 'bout Billy Joe [03:29.03] [03:32.15]'N' Brother married Becky Thompson [03:34.20]They bought a store in Tupelo [03:36.98] [03:39.77]There was a virus going 'round [03:42.00]Papa caught it and he died last Spring [03:46.26] [03:48.02]And now Mama doesn't seem to [03:50.05]Wanna do much of anything [03:53.04] [03:56.48]And me I spend a lot of time [03:58.63]Pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge [04:04.39]And drop them into the muddy [04:06.42]Water off the Tallahatchie Bridge