Chords for Bobbie Gentry - Ode To Billie Joe (The Andy Williams Show)

_ [G] In _ [D] 1967, the song won a [D] Grammy as [G] the best song of that year.
And its singer was [D] a young lady from [G] Chickasaw County, Mississippi.
_ Ladies and gentlemen, an unusual song and a remarkable singer.
_ [N] Bobbie Gentry and her ode to Billy Joe.
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_ It was a 30 chin and a [Am] sleepy dusty day.
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I _ _ _ _ _ was out chopping cotton and my [Am] brother was bathing [D] hay. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ And at [G] dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Mama [D] hollered at the back door, now [Am] y'all remember to [D] wipe your feet. _
_ _ _ _ And then [G] she said, I got some news this morning _ from Choctaw _ _ _ _ _ Ridge.
Today [D] Billy Joe McAllister [C] jumped off the tower at your _ bridge. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Papa said to Mama [Am] as he passed around the blackout [D] leaves. _ _ _
_ _ _ Mama, Billy Joe never had liquor [Am] since.
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Pass the biscuits please. _ _ _
_ [G] There's five more acres than the lower 40 _ _ _ _ _ isle.
_ _ _ _ _ [D] Mama said it was a [A] shame about Billy Joe.
[D] _ _ _ _ _ Anyhow, _ _ seems [G] like nothing ever comes to no good _ up on Choctaw Ridge. _ _ _ _ _
And [D] now Billy Joe _ McAllister [C] jumped off the tower at your [D] _ bridge. _
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Brother said he recollected when [Am] _ _ _
_ [D] he _ and Tom and Billy Joe _ put a frog down my back at the [Am] Carroll County Picture Show.
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And [G] wasn't I talking to him at the church last Sunday _ night. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ I [D] have another piece of apple pie.
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_ _ _ You know it don't seem right.
_ _ _ [G] Well I saw him at the sawmill yesterday up on _ Choctaw Ridge. _ _ _ _ _
And [A] now you tell me Billy Joe has [C] jumped off the tower at your [D] _ bridge. _
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_ Mama said to me, [Am] child, _ _
_ [D] _ _ what's happened to your appetite?
_ _ Well I've been cooking all morning _ [Am] and you haven't touched a [D] single bite. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] That nice young preacher brother Taylor dropped by today. _ _
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Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday.
_ _ _ _ _ Oh by the way, _ _ _ [G] he said he saw a girl who looked a lot like you up on Choctaw _ _ Ridge. _ _ _ _
[D] She and Billy Joe was throwing [C] something off the tower at [D] your bridge.
A _ _ year _ _ _ _ _ _ has come [A] and gone since we heard the [D] news _ about Billy Joe.
_ _ _ _ _ _ Brother Mary [Am] Becky Thompson, _ _ _ [D] they bought a store in Chief Lowe. _ _ _
[G] There was a virus going round, Papa caught it and he died that spring. _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] And now Mama _ just [Am] doesn't seem to want to do [D] much of anything. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] And me, I spend a lot of time picking flowers up on _ Choctaw _ _ Ridge. _ _ _
[D] And drop them into the muddy [C] water off the tower [G] at your bridge.
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