Ode To Billie Joe-Bobbie Gentry

[ti:Ode To Billie Joe] [ar:Bobbie Gentry] [al:Ode To Bobbie Gentry: The Capitol Years] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ode To Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry [00:04.18]Written by：Bobbie Gentry [00:08.36]It was the third of june another sleepy dusty delta [00:12.64]Day [00:14.59] [00:16.69]I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' [00:21.00]Hay [00:22.73] [00:24.96]And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to [00:27.79]The house to eat [00:31.02] [00:32.61]And mama hollered out the back door y'all remember to [00:36.41]Wipe your feet [00:38.76] [00:40.59]And then she said I got some news this mornin' [00:43.95]From choctaw ridge [00:47.26] [00:48.74]Today billy joe macallister jumped off the tallahatchie bridge [00:54.74] [00:57.64]And papa said to mama as he passed around the [01:00.70]Blackeyed peas [01:03.62] [01:04.94]Well billy joe never had a lick of sense pass [01:08.59]The biscuits please [01:11.22] [01:12.96]There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got [01:16.47]To plow [01:19.06] [01:20.53]And mama said it was a shame about billy joe anyhow [01:26.59] [01:28.70]Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on [01:31.83]Choctaw ridge [01:34.70] [01:36.35]And now billy joe macallister's jumped off the tallahatchie bridge [01:42.08] [01:44.97]And brother said he recollected when he and Tom and [01:47.74]Billie joe [01:50.29] [01:52.26]Put a frog down my back at the carroll County [01:55.57]Picture show [01:57.94] [01:59.88]And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last sunday [02:04.11]Night [02:06.31] [02:07.67]I'll have another piece a apple pie you know it [02:11.07]Don't seem right [02:13.58] [02:15.92]I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on choctaw ridge [02:21.95] [02:23.46]And now ya tell me Billie joe's jumped off the [02:26.43]Tallahatchie bridge [02:29.04] [02:31.71]And mama said to me child what's happened to your [02:34.82]Appetite [02:37.32] [02:39.16]I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't touched a [02:42.77]Single bite [02:44.39] [02:47.67]That nice young preacher brother taylor dropped by today [02:53.41] [02:55.11]Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on sunday oh [02:58.71]By the way [03:01.05] [03:03.37]He said he saw a girl that looked a lot [03:05.55]Like you up on choctaw ridge [03:09.36] [03:10.66]And she and Billy joe was throwing somethin' off the [03:13.87]Tallahatchie bridge [03:16.24] [03:19.20]A year has come and gone since we heard the [03:21.68]News 'bout billy joe [03:24.64] [03:27.00]And brother married becky thompson they bought a store in [03:30.14]Tupelo [03:31.58] [03:34.40]There was a virus going 'round papa caught it and [03:37.35]He died last spring [03:40.40] [03:42.14]And now mama doesn't seem to want to do much [03:45.22]Of anything [03:48.07] [03:50.38]And me I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers [03:52.84]Up on choctaw ridge [03:56.67] [03:57.78]And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie [04:01.99]Bridge