ODE TO BILLY JOE
It was the third of june another sleepy dusty delta
- 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
- And 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
- And mama said it was a 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
- And 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
- And 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 and gone since we heard the
- News 'bout billy joe
- And 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 want to 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
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you've got the perfect song
I luv this song cus of its lyric really appears on my mind
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keep it up 💞
✨✨💜 You are so inspiring. Listened already
So cute
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Good job