Ode To Billie Joe-Diana Ross

[ti:Ode To Billie Joe] [ar:Diana Ross] [al:Sequins And Smiles - An Introduction To] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ode To Billie Joe - Diana Ross (黛安娜·罗斯) [00:09.92]It was the third of june [00:12.41]Another sleepy dusty delta day [00:17.31] [00:19.28]I was out choppin' cotton [00:21.75]And my brother was balin' hay [00:26.34] [00:29.15]And at dinner time we stopped [00:31.05]And we walked back to the house to eat [00:35.53] [00:38.15]And mama hollered at the back door [00:40.87]Y'all remember to wipe your feet' [00:44.91] [00:47.02]And then she said she got some news [00:49.33]This mornin' from choctaw ridge [00:54.17] [00:56.36]Today billie joe macallister [00:59.22]Jumped off the tallahatchie bridge [01:03.39] [01:06.32]Papa said to mama as he passed [01:09.19]Around the black eyed peas [01:12.90] [01:15.34]Well billie joe never had a lick of sense [01:18.38] [01:18.91]Pass the biscuits please' [01:21.82] [01:24.23]There's five more acres [01:25.80]In the lower forty I've got to plow' [01:30.84] [01:33.31]Mama said it was shame [01:35.24]About billie joe anyhow [01:40.17] [01:42.54]Seems like nothin' ever comes [01:44.52]To no good up on choctaw ridge [01:49.40] [01:51.75]And now billie joe macallister [01:54.65]Jumped off the tallahatchie bridge [01:58.70] [02:01.44]And brother said he recollected [02:03.44]When he and tom and billie joe [02:07.65] [02:10.33]Put a frog down my back [02:12.60]At the carroll County picture show [02:16.93] [02:20.02]And wasn't I talkin' to him [02:22.18]After church last sunday night [02:26.60] [02:28.95]I'll have another piece of apple pie [02:32.18]You know it just don't seem right' [02:36.08] [02:38.49]I saw him at the sawmill [02:40.22]Yesterday on choctaw ridge' [02:45.35] [02:47.09]And now you tell me billie joe's [02:49.63]Jumped off the tallahatchie bridge' [02:53.75] [02:57.05]Mama said to me [02:58.41]Child what's happened to your appetite [03:03.27] [03:05.96]I've been cookin' all morning [03:07.83]And you haven't touched a single bite [03:12.29] [03:15.17]That nice young preacher [03:16.94]Brother taylor dropped by today [03:22.14] [03:24.24]Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on sunday [03:28.03]Oh by the way [03:30.86] [03:33.70]He said he saw a girl [03:35.24]That looked a lot like you up on choctaw ridge [03:40.34] [03:42.98]And she and billie joe [03:44.58]Was throwing somethin' off the tallahatchie bridge [03:49.10] [03:52.16]A year has come 'n gone [03:54.12]Since we heard the news 'bout billie joe [03:58.56] [04:01.78]Brother married becky thompson [04:03.84]They bought a store in tupelo [04:07.84] [04:10.21]There was a virus going 'round [04:12.73]Papa caught it and he died last spring [04:17.64] [04:19.47]And now mama doesn't seem to [04:22.06]Wanna do much of anything [04:26.43] [04:29.37]And me I spend a lot of time [04:31.59]Pickin' flowers up on choctaw ridge [04:35.93] [04:38.39]And drop them into the muddy water [04:41.07]Off the tallahatchie bridge