Ode To Billy Joe-The Mick Lloyd Connection

[ti:Ode To Billy Joe] [ar:The Mick Lloyd Connection] [al:Golden Oldies] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ode To Billy Joe - The Mick Lloyd Connection [00:13.85]It was the third of June another sleepy dusty Delta day [00:18.35] [00:21.84]I was out choppin' cotton [00:23.64]And my brother was balin' hay [00:27.98] [00:30.07]And at dinner time we stopped [00:31.78]And back walked to the house to eat [00:36.00] [00:37.72]And Mama hollered out the back door [00:40.01]"y'all remember to wipe your feet [00:44.14] [00:46.13]And then she said "I got some news [00:48.13]This mornin' from Choctaw Ridge [00:52.69] [00:54.20]"Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped [00:57.20]Off Tallahatchie the Bridge [01:00.75] [01:03.00]And Papa said to Mama as [01:04.71]He passed around the blackeyed peas [01:08.62] [01:10.57]"Well Billy Joe never had lick a of sense [01:13.81]Pass the biscuits please [01:17.04] [01:18.80]"There's five more acres in the [01:21.00]Lower forty I've got to plow [01:25.52] [01:27.20]And Mama said it was shame [01:29.17]About Billy Joe anyhow [01:33.44] [01:35.02]Seems like nothin' ever comes [01:36.92]To no good up on Choctaw Ridge [01:41.83] [01:43.32]And now Billy Joe MacAllister's [01:45.66]Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge [01:49.16] [01:52.08]And Brother said he recollected [01:53.96]When he and Tom and Billie Joe [01:57.65] [01:59.91]Put a frog down my back [02:01.70]At the Carroll County picture show [02:05.90] [02:07.85]And wasn't I talkin' to him [02:09.92]After church last Sunday night [02:14.62] [02:16.07]"I'll have another piece of apple pie [02:19.17]You know it don't seem right [02:22.38] [02:24.71]"I saw him at the sawmill yesterday [02:27.39]On Choctaw Ridge [02:30.88] [02:32.32]"And now you tell me Billie Joe's [02:34.39]Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge [02:38.23] [02:40.99]And Mama said to me "Child [02:43.12]What's happened to your appetite [02:46.77] [02:48.94]"I've been cookin' all morning [02:50.65]And you haven't touched a single bite [02:54.03] [02:57.32]"That nice young preacher Brother Taylor [03:00.10]Dropped by today [03:02.84] [03:04.85]"Said he'd be pleased to have dinner [03:06.98]On Sunday oh by the way [03:11.39] [03:13.30]"He said he saw a girl that looked a [03:15.42]Lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge [03:19.81] [03:21.35]"And she and Billy Joe was throwing [03:23.41]Somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge [03:27.26] [03:30.09]A year has come 'n' gone since [03:31.81]We heard the news 'bout Billy Joe [03:35.13] [03:38.23]And Brother married Becky Thompson [03:40.10]They bought a store in Tupelo [03:43.50] [03:46.00]There was a virus going 'round [03:48.14]Papa caught it and he died last Spring [03:52.64] [03:54.13]And now Mama doesn't seem to wanna [03:56.60]Do much of anything [04:00.52] [04:02.79]And me I spend a lot of time pickin' [04:04.83]Flowers up on Choctaw Ridge [04:08.68] [04:10.63]And drop them into the muddy water [04:13.10]Off the Tallahatchie Bridge