Chords for Betsy Riger-Lee - Ode to Billie Joe (Bobbie Gentry cover)
Tempo:
61.65 bpm
Chords used:
E
A
Em
D
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
My mom's gonna do a tune now.
Wanna introduce this one?
[E] Yeah!
Hey, a big shout out to Dave Setzer!
Dave, for the guitar alone.
Yeah, Dave is our friend who's a Dylan aficionado.
And, well anyway, Dave, I don't know if you know, but this song was a parody was made by Dylan on this song.
Because it's kind of 1967.
It goes way back.
It's a ballad.
It's kind of long.
But I guess they needed something else to think about besides the war.
So it's kind of boring, sitting around the table kind of a thing, which we used to do.
We used to sit around the kitchen table and talk when we ate.
It was the third of [A] June, another sleepy, dusty [E] Delta day.
I was out [A] chopping cotton and my brother [E] was baling hay.
[A] At dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat.
[E] And mama hollered out the back, don't y'all remember to wipe your feet?
[A] She said, I got some news this morning from Choctaw Ridge.
[E] Today, Billy Joe [A] McAllister jumped off the [E] Tallahatchie Bridge.
Papa said to [A] mama as she passed around the [E] black eyed peas.
Billy Joe never [A] had a liquor since.
[E] Pass the biscuits, please.
[A] There's five more acres in the lower forty I gotta plow.
[E] And mama said it wasn't a shame about Billy [Em] Joe anyhow.
[E] [A] Seems like nothing ever could have gone Choctaw Ridge.
[Em] And now Billy Joe [A] McAllister jumped off the [Em] Tallahatchie.
[E] [A]
[E]
[A] [E]
[A]
[Em] [E] [D]
[E] Mama said to me, [A] child, what's happened to your [E] appetite?
Well, I've been cooking [A] all day and you haven't touched a [E] single bite.
[A] That nice brother preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by [E] today.
Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday.
Oh, by the way,
[A] said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge.
[E] She and Billy Joe was [D] throwing something off the [E] Tallahatchie Bridge.
Brother [A] recollected when he and Tom and [E] Billy Joe
put a frog down my back at the Herald County Picture Show.
[A] And wasn't I talking to him at the church just last Sunday night?
[E] I'll have another piece of apple pie.
No, it don't seem right.
[A] I saw him at the sawmill yesterday up on Choctaw Ridge.
[A]
[E] Now you tell me Billy Joe jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge.
[A]
[E] [Em]
[A]
[E] [A]
A year has come and gone since we heard the news about Billy Joe.
Brother married Becky [A] Thompson.
They bought a store in [E] Tupelo.
[A] There was a virus going around.
Papa caught it and he died last spring.
[E] Mama doesn't seem to want to do much of anything.
[A] Me, I spend a lot of time picking flowers up on Choctaw Ridge.
And [E] throw them into the [D] muddy water of the [E] Tallahatchie Bridge.
[Em]
Wanna introduce this one?
[E] Yeah!
Hey, a big shout out to Dave Setzer!
Dave, for the guitar alone.
Yeah, Dave is our friend who's a Dylan aficionado.
And, well anyway, Dave, I don't know if you know, but this song was a parody was made by Dylan on this song.
Because it's kind of 1967.
It goes way back.
It's a ballad.
It's kind of long.
But I guess they needed something else to think about besides the war.
So it's kind of boring, sitting around the table kind of a thing, which we used to do.
We used to sit around the kitchen table and talk when we ate.
It was the third of [A] June, another sleepy, dusty [E] Delta day.
I was out [A] chopping cotton and my brother [E] was baling hay.
[A] At dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat.
[E] And mama hollered out the back, don't y'all remember to wipe your feet?
[A] She said, I got some news this morning from Choctaw Ridge.
[E] Today, Billy Joe [A] McAllister jumped off the [E] Tallahatchie Bridge.
Papa said to [A] mama as she passed around the [E] black eyed peas.
Billy Joe never [A] had a liquor since.
[E] Pass the biscuits, please.
[A] There's five more acres in the lower forty I gotta plow.
[E] And mama said it wasn't a shame about Billy [Em] Joe anyhow.
[E] [A] Seems like nothing ever could have gone Choctaw Ridge.
[Em] And now Billy Joe [A] McAllister jumped off the [Em] Tallahatchie.
[E] [A]
[E]
[A] [E]
[A]
[Em] [E] [D]
[E] Mama said to me, [A] child, what's happened to your [E] appetite?
Well, I've been cooking [A] all day and you haven't touched a [E] single bite.
[A] That nice brother preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by [E] today.
Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday.
Oh, by the way,
[A] said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge.
[E] She and Billy Joe was [D] throwing something off the [E] Tallahatchie Bridge.
Brother [A] recollected when he and Tom and [E] Billy Joe
put a frog down my back at the Herald County Picture Show.
[A] And wasn't I talking to him at the church just last Sunday night?
[E] I'll have another piece of apple pie.
No, it don't seem right.
[A] I saw him at the sawmill yesterday up on Choctaw Ridge.
[A]
[E] Now you tell me Billy Joe jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge.
[A]
[E] [Em]
[A]
[E] [A]
A year has come and gone since we heard the news about Billy Joe.
Brother married Becky [A] Thompson.
They bought a store in [E] Tupelo.
[A] There was a virus going around.
Papa caught it and he died last spring.
[E] Mama doesn't seem to want to do much of anything.
[A] Me, I spend a lot of time picking flowers up on Choctaw Ridge.
And [E] throw them into the [D] muddy water of the [E] Tallahatchie Bridge.
[Em]
Key:
E
A
Em
D
E
A
Em
D
My mom's gonna do a tune now.
Wanna introduce this one?
[E] Yeah!
Hey, a big shout out to Dave Setzer!
Dave, for the guitar alone.
Yeah, Dave is our friend who's a Dylan aficionado.
And, well anyway, Dave, I don't know if you know, but this song was a parody was made by Dylan on this song.
Because it's kind of 1967.
It goes way back.
It's a ballad.
It's kind of long.
But I guess they needed something else to think about besides the war.
So it's kind of boring, sitting around the table kind of a thing, which we used to do.
We used to sit around the kitchen table and talk when we ate. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ It was the third of [A] June, another sleepy, dusty [E] Delta day. _
I was out [A] chopping cotton and my brother [E] was baling hay.
_ _ [A] At dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat.
[E] And mama hollered out the back, don't y'all remember to wipe your feet? _
[A] She said, I got some news this morning from Choctaw _ Ridge.
[E] Today, Billy Joe [A] McAllister jumped off the [E] Tallahatchie Bridge. _ _ _ _
_ _ Papa said to [A] mama as she passed around the [E] black eyed peas.
_ Billy Joe never [A] had a liquor since.
[E] Pass the biscuits, please. _ _
[A] There's five more acres in the lower forty I gotta plow.
_ [E] And mama said it wasn't a shame about Billy [Em] Joe anyhow.
[E] _ [A] Seems like nothing ever could have gone Choctaw Ridge.
[Em] And now Billy Joe [A] McAllister jumped off the [Em] Tallahatchie. _
[E] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ [E] _ _ [D] _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ Mama said to me, [A] child, what's happened to your [E] appetite?
Well, _ I've been cooking [A] all day and you haven't touched a [E] single bite.
_ [A] That nice brother preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by [E] today.
Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday.
Oh, by the way, _ _
[A] said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge. _
_ [E] She and Billy Joe was [D] throwing something off the [E] Tallahatchie Bridge. _ _ _ _
_ _ Brother [A] recollected when he and Tom and [E] Billy Joe
_ put a frog down my back at the Herald County Picture Show. _ _
[A] And wasn't I talking to him at the church just last Sunday night?
_ [E] I'll have another piece of apple pie.
No, it don't seem right.
_ [A] I saw him at the sawmill yesterday up on Choctaw Ridge.
[A] _
[E] Now you tell me Billy Joe jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge. _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ A year has come and gone since we heard the news about Billy Joe.
_ _ Brother married Becky [A] Thompson.
They bought a store in [E] Tupelo. _ _
[A] There was a virus going around.
Papa caught it and he died last spring.
[E] Mama doesn't seem to want to do much of anything.
_ [A] Me, I spend a lot of time picking flowers up on Choctaw Ridge.
And [E] throw them into the [D] muddy water of the [E] Tallahatchie Bridge.
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
Wanna introduce this one?
[E] Yeah!
Hey, a big shout out to Dave Setzer!
Dave, for the guitar alone.
Yeah, Dave is our friend who's a Dylan aficionado.
And, well anyway, Dave, I don't know if you know, but this song was a parody was made by Dylan on this song.
Because it's kind of 1967.
It goes way back.
It's a ballad.
It's kind of long.
But I guess they needed something else to think about besides the war.
So it's kind of boring, sitting around the table kind of a thing, which we used to do.
We used to sit around the kitchen table and talk when we ate. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ It was the third of [A] June, another sleepy, dusty [E] Delta day. _
I was out [A] chopping cotton and my brother [E] was baling hay.
_ _ [A] At dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat.
[E] And mama hollered out the back, don't y'all remember to wipe your feet? _
[A] She said, I got some news this morning from Choctaw _ Ridge.
[E] Today, Billy Joe [A] McAllister jumped off the [E] Tallahatchie Bridge. _ _ _ _
_ _ Papa said to [A] mama as she passed around the [E] black eyed peas.
_ Billy Joe never [A] had a liquor since.
[E] Pass the biscuits, please. _ _
[A] There's five more acres in the lower forty I gotta plow.
_ [E] And mama said it wasn't a shame about Billy [Em] Joe anyhow.
[E] _ [A] Seems like nothing ever could have gone Choctaw Ridge.
[Em] And now Billy Joe [A] McAllister jumped off the [Em] Tallahatchie. _
[E] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ [E] _ _ [D] _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ Mama said to me, [A] child, what's happened to your [E] appetite?
Well, _ I've been cooking [A] all day and you haven't touched a [E] single bite.
_ [A] That nice brother preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by [E] today.
Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday.
Oh, by the way, _ _
[A] said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge. _
_ [E] She and Billy Joe was [D] throwing something off the [E] Tallahatchie Bridge. _ _ _ _
_ _ Brother [A] recollected when he and Tom and [E] Billy Joe
_ put a frog down my back at the Herald County Picture Show. _ _
[A] And wasn't I talking to him at the church just last Sunday night?
_ [E] I'll have another piece of apple pie.
No, it don't seem right.
_ [A] I saw him at the sawmill yesterday up on Choctaw Ridge.
[A] _
[E] Now you tell me Billy Joe jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge. _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ A year has come and gone since we heard the news about Billy Joe.
_ _ Brother married Becky [A] Thompson.
They bought a store in [E] Tupelo. _ _
[A] There was a virus going around.
Papa caught it and he died last spring.
[E] Mama doesn't seem to want to do much of anything.
_ [A] Me, I spend a lot of time picking flowers up on Choctaw Ridge.
And [E] throw them into the [D] muddy water of the [E] Tallahatchie Bridge.
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ _