Ode to Billie Joe-Alan Copeland Singers

[ti:Ode to Billie Joe] [ar:Alan Copeland Singers] [al:Conspiracy - A Bubble Called You] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ode to Billie Joe - Alan Copeland Singers [00:08.64]It was the third of June another sleepy dusty Delta day [00:13.95] [00:17.11]I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hay [00:23.59] [00:25.56]And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat [00:31.91] [00:33.56]And Mama hollered out the back door "y'all remember to wipe your feet [00:40.12] [00:42.12]And then she said "I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge [00:49.05] [00:50.50]"Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge [00:56.76] [00:59.90]Papa And said to Mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas [01:06.46] [01:07.66]"Well Billy Joe never had a lick of sense pass the biscuits please [01:14.49] [01:16.32]"There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow [01:21.31] [01:24.52]And Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe anyhow [01:31.14] [01:33.12]Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge [01:39.81] [01:41.23]And now Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge [01:48.26] [01:50.37]And Brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Billie Joe [01:56.71] [01:58.61]Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show [02:04.88] [02:06.64]And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night [02:13.35] [02:15.02]"I'll have another piece of apple pie you know it don't seem right [02:21.79] [02:23.94]"I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge [02:30.15] [02:31.84]"And now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge [02:38.71] [02:40.85]A year has come 'n' gone since we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe [02:46.72] [02:49.30]And Brother married Becky Thompson they bought a store in Tupelo [02:55.38] [02:57.03]There was a virus going 'round Papa caught it and he died last Spring [03:03.80] [03:05.40]And now Mama doesn't seem to wanna do much of anything [03:12.09] [03:14.19]And me I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge [03:20.44] [03:21.96]And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge