Ode To Billy Joe-The Academy Allstars

[ti:Ode To Billy Joe] [ar:The Academy Allstars] [al:Hot 100 Number Ones Of 1967] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ode To Billy Joe - The Academy Allstars [00:09.34]It was the third of June [00:10.97]Another sleepy dusty Delta day [00:13.84] [00:17.31]I was out choppin' cotton [00:19.17]And my brother was balin' hay [00:21.56] [00:25.13]And at dinner time we stopped [00:26.97]And walked back to the house to eat [00:29.39] [00:32.74]And Mama hollered out the back door [00:34.97]"Y'all remember to wipe your feet" [00:37.31] [00:40.55]And then she said "I got some news [00:42.39]This mornin' from Choctaw Ridge" [00:45.34] [00:48.46]"Today Billy Joe Mac Allister [00:50.93]Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge" [00:52.83] [00:56.76]And Papa said to Mama as he passed [00:59.16]Around the black eyed peas [01:00.62] [01:04.77]"Well Billy Joe never [01:05.45]Had a lick of sense [01:06.75] [01:07.49]Pass the biscuits please" [01:08.83] [01:12.04]"There's five more acres [01:13.74]In the lower forty I've got to plow" [01:16.32] [01:19.60]And Mama said it was shame [01:21.58]About Billy Joe anyhow" [01:23.84] [01:27.52]Seems like nothin' ever comes [01:29.21]To any good up on Choctaw Ridge [01:31.98] [01:35.25]And now Billy Joe Mac Allister's [01:37.20] [01:38.03]Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge [01:40.06] [01:43.67]And Brother said he recollected [01:45.61]When he and Tom and Billie Joe [01:47.86] [01:51.16]Put a frog down my back a [01:53.60]A the Carroll County picture show [01:55.25] [01:59.38]And wasn't I talkin' to him [02:00.54] [02:01.34]After church last Sunday night [02:03.13] [02:06.60]"I'll have another piece of apple pie [02:08.89] [02:09.43]You know it don't seem right" [02:10.74] [02:14.79]"I saw him at the sawmill yesterday [02:16.78] [02:17.44]On Choctaw Ridge" [02:18.84] [02:22.19]"And now you tell me Billie Joe's [02:24.32]Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge" [02:26.80] [02:30.50]And Mama said to me [02:31.95]"Child what's happened to your appetite [02:33.56] [02:37.97]I've been cookin' all morning [02:39.41] [02:40.17]And you haven't touched a single bite" [02:42.15] [02:46.10]"That nice young preacher [02:47.49]Brother Taylor dropped by today" [02:50.24] [02:53.54]"Said he'd be pleased to have dinner [02:55.52]On Sunday oh by the way" [02:58.41] [03:01.72]"He said he saw a girl that looked a lot [03:04.22]Like you up on Choctaw Ridge" [03:06.51] [03:09.12]"And she and Billy Joe was throwing [03:11.00]Somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge" [03:13.50] [03:17.40]A year has come 'n' gone [03:19.18]Since we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe [03:21.27] [03:24.97]And Brother married Becky Thompson [03:26.47] [03:27.13]Tthey bought a store in Tupelo [03:28.64] [03:32.47]There was a virus going 'round [03:33.98] [03:34.78]Papa caught it and he died last Spring [03:37.07] [03:40.34]And now Mama doesn't seem [03:42.08]To wanna do much of anything [03:44.20] [03:48.26]And me I spend a lot of time [03:50.24]Pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge [03:52.84] [03:56.14]And drop them into the muddy water [03:58.53]Off the Tallahatchie Bridge