Bobbie Gentry - Ode To Billie Joe - Karaoke Version from Zoom Karaoke

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This karaoke version has been produced by Zoom Karaoke and the recording rights are owned and controlled by Zoom Entertainments Limited - www.zoomkaraoke.co.uk

Song lyrics:

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
AT THE BACK DOOR
Y'ALL, REMEMBER
TO WIPE YOUR FEET

AND THEN SHE SAID
I GOT SOME NEWS THIS MORNIN'
FROM CHOCTAW RIDGE
TODAY, BILLIE JOE MACALLISTER
JUMPED OFF
THE TALLAHATCHIE BRIDGE

AND PAPA SAID TO MAMA
AS HE PASSED AROUND
THE BLACK-EYED PEAS
WELL, BILLIE 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 BILLIE JOE
ANYHOW

SEEMS LIKE NOTHIN' EVER
COMES TO NO GOOD
UP ON CHOCTAW RIDGE

AND NOW
BILLIE JOE MACALLISTER'S
JUMPED OFF
THE TALLAHATCHIE BRIDGE

AND BROTHER SAID
HE RECOLLECTED WHEN
HE AND TOM AND BILLIE JOE

DONE 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 OF APPLE PIE
YOU KNOW, IT DON'T SEEM RIGHT

I SAW HIM AT THE SAWMILL
YESTERDAY ON CHOCTAW RIDGE
AND NOW YOU TELL ME
BILLIE JOE'S JUMPED OFF
THE TALLAHATCHIE BRIDGE

AND MAMA SAID TO ME
CHILD, WHAT'S HAPPENED
TO YOUR APPETITE

OH, I'VE BEEN
COOKIN' ALL MORNIN'
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 BILLIE JOE
WAS THROWIN' SOMETHIN' OFF
THE TALLAHATCHIE BRIDGE

A YEAR HAS COME AND GONE
SINCE WE HEARD THE NEWS
'BOUT BILLIE JOE
AND BROTHER
MARRIED BECKY THOMPSON
THEY BOUGHT A STORE IN TUPELO

THERE WAS A VIRUS GOIN' 'ROUND
PAPA CAUGHT IT
AND HE DIED LAST SPRING
AND NOW MAMA
DOESN'T SEEM TO WANT TO DO
MUCH OF ANYTHIN'

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