Ode To Billy Jo-Ike

[ti:Ode To Billie Joe] [ar:Ike] [al:Something] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ode To Billy Jo - Ike [00:08.23]It was the third of June [00:10.17]Another sleepy dusty Delta day [00:13.46] [00:16.10]I was out chopping cotton [00:18.11]And my brother was baling hay [00:21.24] [00:23.86]And at dinner time we stopped [00:26.13]And walked back to the house to eat [00:28.77] [00:31.10]And Mama hollered out the back door y'all [00:33.86]Remember to wipe your feet [00:36.65] [00:39.15]And then she said [00:40.24]I got some news this morning from Choctaw Ridge [00:43.89] [00:46.57]Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge [00:51.39] [00:54.60]N Papa said to Mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas [00:59.03] [01:02.00]Well Billy Joe never had a lick of sense [01:04.41] [01:05.30]Pass the biscuits please [01:06.80] [01:10.25]There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow [01:15.14] [01:17.79]Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe anyhow [01:22.76] [01:25.52]Seems like nothing ever comes to no good [01:27.91] [01:28.53]Up on Choctaw Ridge and now [01:34.08]Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge [01:38.00] [01:41.30]Brother said he recollected [01:43.12]When he and Tom and Billie Joe [01:45.31] [01:48.66]Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show [01:52.98] [01:56.53]And wasn't I talking to me after church last Sunday night [02:02.14] [02:04.48]I'll have another piece-a apple pie [02:06.37] [02:07.32]You know it don't seem right [02:08.89] [02:12.41]I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge [02:17.53] [02:19.69]And now ya tell me Billie Joe's jumped [02:22.43]Off the Tallahatchie Bridge [02:24.78] [02:27.51]N Mama said to me child [02:29.07] [02:29.75]What's happened to your appetite [02:31.74] [02:34.91]I've been cooking all morning [02:36.92]And you haven't touched a single bite [02:40.10] [02:43.08]That nice young preacher Brother Taylor [02:45.77]Dropped by today said [02:47.90] [02:50.63]He'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday [02:53.11] [02:54.01]Oh by the way [02:55.19] [02:58.24]And he said he saw a girl that looked [03:00.87]A lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge [03:03.88] [03:05.71]And she and Billy Joe was throwing something [03:08.53]Off the Tallahatchie Bridge [03:11.05] [03:14.04]A year has come gone now [03:15.45] [03:16.03]Since we heard the news about Billy Joe [03:18.53] [03:21.77]Non Brother married Becky Thompson [03:23.71]They bought a store in Tupelo [03:25.70] [03:29.18]There was a virus going round [03:31.32]Papa caught it and he died last Spring [03:34.39] [03:36.91]And Mama doesn't seem to wanna [03:39.15]Do much of anything [03:41.65] [03:44.60]And me I spend a lot of time [03:46.86]Picking flowers up on Choctaw Ridge [03:50.24] [03:51.71]And drop them into the muddy water [03:54.28]Off the Tallahatchie Bridge