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Ode To Billy Joe

Bobby Gentry

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"Ode to Billy Joe"

Key of F, Common Time "With a beat"

Words and music by Bobbie Gentry
            F7
It was the third of June,
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Another sleepy, dusty,
      F7
I was out choppin' cotton
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And my brother was bailin' hay
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And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
          F7
And Mama hollered at the back door,
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"Y'all remember to wipe your feet."
            Bb7
Then she said,

"I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge
       F7
Today Billy Joe McAllister
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Jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge."

Michael shaw
shaw95@wharton.upenn.edu