Olde To Billy Jo-Ike & Tina Turner

[ti:Ode To Billie Joe] [ar:Ike] [al:Something] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Olde To Billy Jo - Ike & Tina Turner [00:08.17]It was the third of June [00:10.11]Another sleepy dusty Delta day [00:13.40] [00:16.04]I was out chopping cotton [00:18.05]And my brother was baling hay [00:21.18] [00:23.80]And at dinner time we stopped [00:26.07]And walked back to the house to eat [00:28.71] [00:31.03]And Mama hollered out the back door y'all [00:33.79]Remember to wipe your feet [00:36.58] [00:39.08]And then she said [00:40.17]I got some news this morning from Choctaw Ridge [00:43.82] [00:46.50]Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge [00:51.32] [00:54.53]N Papa said to Mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas [00:58.96] [01:01.93]Well Billy Joe never had a lick of sense [01:04.34] [01:05.23]Pass the biscuits please [01:06.73] [01:10.18]There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow [01:15.07] [01:17.72]Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe anyhow [01:22.70] [01:25.46]Seems like nothing ever comes to no good [01:27.85] [01:28.47]Up on Choctaw Ridge and now [01:34.02]Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge [01:37.94] [01:41.24]Brother said he recollected [01:43.06]When he and Tom and Billie Joe [01:45.25] [01:48.60]Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show [01:52.92] [01:56.46]And wasn't I talking to me after church last Sunday night [02:02.07] [02:04.41]I'll have another piece-a apple pie [02:06.30] [02:07.25]You know it don't seem right [02:08.82] [02:12.34]I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge [02:17.47] [02:19.63]And now ya tell me Billie Joe's jumped [02:22.37]Off the Tallahatchie Bridge [02:24.72] [02:27.45]N Mama said to me child [02:29.01] [02:29.69]What's happened to your appetite [02:31.68] [02:34.85]I've been cooking all morning [02:36.86]And you haven't touched a single bite [02:40.04] [02:43.02]That nice young preacher Brother Taylor [02:45.71]Dropped by today said [02:47.84] [02:50.57]He'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday [02:53.05] [02:53.95]Oh by the way [02:55.13] [02:58.18]And he said he saw a girl that looked [03:00.81]A lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge [03:03.82] [03:05.65]And she and Billy Joe was throwing something [03:08.47]Off the Tallahatchie Bridge [03:10.99] [03:13.97]A year has come gone now [03:15.38] [03:15.96]Since we heard the news about Billy Joe [03:18.46] [03:21.70]Non Brother married Becky Thompson [03:23.64]They bought a store in Tupelo [03:25.63] [03:29.11]There was a virus going round [03:31.25]Papa caught it and he died last Spring [03:34.32] [03:36.84]And Mama doesn't seem to wanna [03:39.09]Do much of anything [03:41.59] [03:44.54]And me I spend a lot of time [03:46.80]Picking flowers up on Choctaw Ridge [03:50.18] [03:51.65]And drop them into the muddy water [03:54.22]Off the Tallahatchie Bridge