Song Lyrics Gentry Bobbie - Ode To Billy Joe    [Lyrics & Song Text Archive] lyrics archive>> G>> Gentry Bobbie Singer Lyrics [Gentry Bobbie other resources]>> Ode To Billy Joe Song Lyrics Author/Artist/Singer: Gentry Bobbie Music Title/Track: Ode To Billy Joe Theme ID: 7289 Album: N/A Words and Music by Bobbie Gentry It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hay And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat And Mama hollered out the back door "y'all remember to wipe your feet" And then she said "I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge" "Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge" 'n' Papa said to Mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas "Well Billy Joe never had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits, please" "There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow" 'n' Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe, anyhow Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge And now Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge 'n' Brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Billie Joe Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night? "I'll have another piece-a apple pie, you know it don't seem right" "I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge" "And now ya tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge" 'n' Mama said to me "Child, what's happened to your appetite?" "I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't touched a single bite" "That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today" "Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way" "He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge" "And she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge" A year has come 'n' gone since we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe 'n' Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo There was a virus going 'round, Papa caught it and he died last Spring And now Mama doesn't seem to wanna do much of anything And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge Related Lyrics Random lyrics: Ode To Billie Joe, Okolona River Bottom Band, Penduli Pendulum, Another Place, Another Time, Benjamin, Beverly, Billy The Kid, Bugs, Casket Vignette, Hurry, Tuesday Child, Hushabye Mountain, I Saw An Angel Die, Marigolds And Tangerines, Refractions, Hell Yeah, Pony, A Friend Like You, Best Days, Born To Be, Declaration, Desperate Men, Evidence Of God, EvolutionRedefined, Follow You, Foundations, Heart To God Hand To Man, Hey Jimmie, Home Run, I Found Love, If You Could See What I See, Im Free, In Chris Alone, Listen To Our Hearts, Mercy For The Memories, New Americans, No Need To Explain, Nothing To Hide, One Candle, Only A Fool, Out Here, Overflow, Red Moon, Running To You, Scattering, Tearin Down The Walls, Tell Me Again, The Fortunate Ones, The In Betweens, The Letter, The Part Of You, Other Gentry Bobbie song Lyrics Ill Never Fall In Love Again Lyrics Ode To Billie Joe Lyrics Apartment 21 Lyrics Chickasaw County Child Lyrics Fancy Lyrics Ill Never Fall In Love Again Lyrics Mississippi Delta Lyrics Son Of A Preacher Man Lyrics All I Have To Do Is Dream Lyrics Other Artists Genuwine Lyrics Geoff Moore Lyrics Geoff Moore And The Distance Lyrics Geoff Tate Lyrics Geordie Lyrics Georg Baker Selection Lyrics Georg Danzer Lyrics George Lyrics George Baker Selection Lyrics George BensF/ Roberta Flack Lyrics All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners and are strictly for educational purposes only. lyricstrue.net Copyright © 2005-2007 All Rights Reserved., , Privacy policy