Ode To Billie Joe-Molly Johnson

[ti:Ode To Billie Joe(Album Version)] [ar:Molly Johnson] [al:Lucky] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ode To Billie Joe (Album Version) - Molly Johnson [00:08.92]It was the third of June [00:10.52]Another sleepy dusty Delta day [00:12.98] [00:16.39]I was out chopping cotton [00:18.40]And my brother was baling hay [00:20.99] [00:25.28]At dinner time we stopped [00:26.73] [00:27.24]And walked back to the house to eat [00:29.19] [00:32.14]And Mama hollered out the back door [00:33.67] [00:35.02]"you all remember to wipe your feet" [00:36.63] [00:40.15]And then she said [00:41.13]"I got some news this morning from Choctaw Ridge" [00:45.06] [00:47.87]"Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge" [00:52.31] [00:57.27]And Papa said to Mama [00:59.17]As he passed around the blackeyed peas [01:01.71] [01:04.26]"Well Billy Joe never had a lick of sense [01:06.38] [01:07.01]Pass the biscuits please" [01:08.33] [01:11.57]"There's five more acres in the lower forty [01:14.44] [01:15.34]Got to plow" [01:16.07] [01:19.60]And Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe anyhow [01:23.49] [01:27.41]Seems like nothing ever comes to no good [01:29.83] [01:30.37]Up on Choctaw Ridge [01:31.94] [01:35.47]And now Billy Joe MacAllister [01:36.96] [01:37.70]Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge [01:39.83] [01:43.21]And Brother said he recollected [01:45.08] [01:46.10]When he and Tom and Billie Joe [01:48.15] [01:51.12]Put a frog down my back [01:53.04]At the Carroll County picture show [01:55.38] [01:58.94]And wasn't I talking to him after Church [02:01.48] [02:02.66]Last Sunday night [02:03.89] [02:06.87]"I'll have another piece of apple pie [02:08.56] [02:10.05]You know it don't seem right" [02:11.57] [02:15.07]"I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge" [02:19.52] [02:22.52]"And now you tell me Billie Joe's [02:24.57]Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge" [02:27.10] [02:31.08]And Mama said to me [02:32.33]"Child what's happened to your appetite " [02:34.83] [02:38.27]"I've been cooking all morning [02:39.89] [02:41.12]You haven't touched a single bite" [02:42.90] [02:47.06]"Nice young preacher Brother Taylor [02:49.01] [02:49.90]Dropped by today" [02:50.63] [02:53.90]"Said he'd be pleased to have dinner [02:55.75]On Sunday oh by the way" [02:59.00] [03:01.79]"He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you [03:04.83] [03:05.62]Up on Choctaw Ridge" [03:07.37] [03:10.08]"And she and Billy Joe were throwing something [03:12.38]Off the Tallahatchie Bridge" [03:13.92] [04:04.55]A year has come and gone since [04:06.09]We heard the news about Billy Joe [04:08.62] [04:12.29]And Brother married Becky Thompson [04:14.14]Bought a store in Tupelo [04:16.11] [04:19.49]There was a virus going around [04:21.01] [04:21.89]Papa caught it died last Spring [04:24.26] [04:27.46]And now Mama doesn't seem to [04:29.10]Wanna do much of anything [04:31.74] [04:35.78]And me I spend a lot of time picking flowers [04:39.07]Up on Choctaw Ridge [04:40.85] [04:43.59]And drop them in the muddy water [04:45.46]Off the Tallahatchie Bridge Yeah [04:48.81] [04:50.36]Ooh the Tallahatchie Bridge [04:51.87] [04:54.43]Oh Muddy Muddy Muddy Water [04:56.21] [04:57.81]Off the Tallahatchie Bridge [04:59.33] [05:03.52]Sleepy Dusty Delta Day [05:05.30] [05:14.58]Tallahatchie Bridge