Ode to Billy Joe-Tom Scott

[ti:Ode to Billy Joe] [ar:Tom Scott] [al:Telling Stories] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ode to Billy Joe - Tom Scott [00:20.99]It was the third of June [00:22.85] [00:24.26]Another sleepy dusty Delta day [00:26.85] [00:30.96]I was out choppin' cotton [00:32.74] [00:33.56]And my brother was balin' hay [00:36.54] [00:40.73]And at dinner time we stopped [00:42.86] [00:43.59]And back walked to the house to eat [00:46.23] [00:50.36]And Mama hollered out the back door [00:53.03]"y'all remember to wipe your feet [00:56.03] [01:00.13]And then she said "I got some [01:02.20]News this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge [01:05.56] [01:09.96]"Today Billy Joe MacAllister [01:12.92]Jumped off Tallahatchie the Bridge [01:15.61] [01:21.16]And Papa said to Mama as he [01:23.72]Passed around the blackeyed peas [01:25.83] [01:29.63]"Well Billy Joe never had lick a of sense [01:32.84] [01:34.10]Pass the biscuits please [01:35.96] [01:39.61]"There's five more acres in the [01:42.41]Lower forty I've got to plow [01:45.32] [01:49.15]And Mama said it was shame [01:50.88] [01:52.11]About Billy Joe anyhow [01:54.41] [01:58.88]Seems like nothin' ever comes to [02:01.56]No good up on Choctaw Ridge [02:04.64] [02:08.47]And now Billy Joe MacAllister's [02:11.76]Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge [02:13.87] [02:19.76]And Brother said he recollected [02:21.15] [02:21.98]When he and Tom and Billie Joe [02:25.03] [02:28.25]Put a frog down my back at the [02:32.32]Carroll County picture show [02:34.11] [02:38.76]And wasn't I talkin' to him after [02:41.11]Church last Sunday night [02:43.90] [02:47.38]"I'll have another piece of apple pie [02:50.11] [02:51.63]You know it don't seem right [02:54.67] [02:58.34]"I saw him at the sawmill yesterday [03:00.05] [03:01.51]On Choctaw Ridge [03:03.13] [03:07.51]"And now you tell me Billie Joe's [03:10.02]Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge [03:12.64] [03:18.49]And Mama said to me "Child [03:20.24] [03:21.38]What's happened to your appetite [03:23.24] [03:27.03]"I've been cookin' all morning [03:28.81] [03:30.28]And you haven't touched a single bite [03:33.09] [03:37.35]"That nice young preacher [03:38.84] [03:39.36]Brother Taylor dropped by today [03:42.94] [03:46.54]"Said he'd be pleased to have [03:49.08]Dinner on Sunday oh by the way [03:52.57] [03:56.90]"He said he saw a girl that looked [03:59.59]A lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge [04:02.59] [04:06.29]"And she and Billy Joe was throwing [04:08.64]Somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge [04:11.74] [05:25.80]And Brother married Becky Thompson [05:27.31] [05:28.14]They bought a store in Tupelo [05:30.03] [05:34.42]There was a virus going 'round [05:36.29] [05:37.13]Papa caught it and he died last Spring [05:41.94] [05:44.05]And now Mama doesn't seem [05:46.27] [05:47.28]To wanna do much of anything [05:49.49] [05:54.66]And me I spend a lot of time [05:56.82]Pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge [06:00.41] [06:03.87]And drop them into the muddy [06:06.34]Water off the Tallahatchie Bridge [06:09.96] [06:13.59]I dropped them into the muddy water [06:15.81] [06:17.27]Off the Tallahatchie Bridge [06:19.45] [06:24.00]I dropped them into the muddy water [06:25.72] [06:30.16]Off the Tallahatchie Bridge