Chords for "Ode to Billie Joe" by Bobbie Gentry (film version full edit)

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_ _ [D] _ It _ _ _ _ was the third of June, another [Am] sleepy dusty day.
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I was out chopping [Am] cotton and my brother was [D] baling hay. _ _ _ _ _
[G] And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to _ eat.
_ _ And [D] Mama hollered at the back door, y'all remember to wipe your feet.
_ _ _ _ [G] And then she said, I got some news this morning from Chateau Ridge.
_ _ _ _ [D] Today Billy Joe McAllister [C] jumped off the tallahatchie [D] bridge.
_ _ _ _ _ And Papa said to Mama [Am] as he passed around the [D] black eyed peas,
_ _ _ _ Oh Billy Joe never had a [Am] licker since, pass the [D] biscuits _ please.
_ _ _ [G] There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow. _
_ _ And [D] Mama said it was a shame about Billy Joe _ anyhow. _ _
_ _ [G] Seems like nothing ever comes to no good up on Chateau Ridge. _ _
_ And [D] now Billy Joe McAllister [C] jumped off the [Dm] tallahatchie bridge. _ _ _
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_ _ _ A _ _ year _ has come and gone [Am] since we heard the news about [D] Billy Joe. _ _ _ _
_ Brother married Becky Thompson, [Am] they bought a store in [D] Tupelo. _ _ _ _ _
There was [G] a virus going round, Papa caught it and he died last spring. _ _ _
And [D] now Mama doesn't seem to want to do much of anything. _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] And me I spend a lot of time picking flowers up on Chateau Ridge. _ _ _
And [Dm] drop them [A] into the muddy water [C] off the tallahatchie [D] bridge. _ _ _
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