Chords for Ode to Billie Joe by Bobbie Gentry with lyrics

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Was a dirty tune, [A] another [Am] sleepy dusty [G] tale [D] today
_ _ I _ was out chopping cotton [Am] and my brother was [G] baling [D] _ hay
_ _ And [G]
at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to _ eat
_ _ _ Then Mama [D] hollered at Matt, so y'all remember to wipe your feet
_ _ _ And [G] then she said, I got some news this morning from Choctaw _ _ Ridge
_ Today [D]
Billy Joe [C] McAllister jumped off the [D] Tallahatchie _ Bridge _ _ _ _
Papa said to [G] Mama [Am] as he passed around the black [D]-eyed _ _ peas
_ _ Billy Joe never had liquor [Am] since, pass [D] the biscuits _ please
_ _ _ [G] There's five more acres in the lower forty I got to plow
_ _ _ _ Mama [D] said it was a shame about Billy Joe anyhow
_ _ _ _ _ Seems [G] like nothing ever comes to no good up on Choctaw _ Ridge
_ And now [D]
Billy Joe _ [C] McAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie [D]
Bridge
_ _ _ _ _ Brother said he'd recollect when he [Am] and Tom and [D] Billy Joe
_ _ _ Put a frog down my back at [Am] the Carroll County Picture [D]
Show
_ _ _ Then was [G] a night talking to him after church last Sunday night
_ _ _ _ I'll have [D] another piece of apple pie
_ You know it don't seem right
_ _ _ _ [G] I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw _ _ Ridge
_ _ You [D] tell me Billy Joe's jumped [C] off the Tallahatchie [D] _
Bridge
_ _ _ _ [G] [D] Mama said, me child, [Am] what's happened to you [G] [D] appetite
_ _ _ _ _ Well I've been cooking all morning [Am] and you never touched a single [D]
bite
_ _ That _ [G] _
nice young preacher Brother Taylor dropped by _ today
_ _ _ _ Said [D] he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday
_ Oh by the way
_ _ _ _ _ [G] He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge
_ _ And [D] she and Billy Joe was throwing [C] something off the Tallahatchie [D] _
_ _ Bridge
_ _ A year has come and gone [G] since we [Am] heard the news about [D] Billy Joe
_ _ Brother _ _ _ married Becky [G] Thompson, [Am] they bought a store in [D] Tupelo
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] There was a virus going round, Papa caught it and he died last spring
_ Now _ _ [D] Mama doesn't seem to want to do much of anything
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And me I spend a lot of time picking flowers up on Choctaw _ _ Ridge _ _
[D] Drop them into the muddy [C] water off the _ [D] Tallahatchie Bridge
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