Chords for Ode To Billy Joe Bobbie Gentry Cover

Well, it's not the 3rd of June.
It's the 23rd of September
_ But it is a sleepy dusty Delta day here _ _ _ _
Almost like Tupelo, Mississippi here in DC.
So let me do one of my favorite songs for you.
_ Hope you like it
_ It _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ was the third [Gm] Jim another sleepy dusty Delta [C]
day I
_ _ _ Was out chopping [Gm] cotton my brother was [C] bailing hey
_ _ _ _ [F] And it didn't tell him we stopped walk back to the house to eat
_ _ _ _ _ [C] And mama hollered out the back door y'all remember to wipe your feet
_ _ _ _ Then [F] she said I got some news this morning from Chuck Toree
_ bridge
_ Today [C] Billy Joe McAllister [Bb] jumped off the teller [C] at she bridge
_ _ _ _ _ _ Papa said to mama [Gm] as he passed around the black [Am] eyed peas
[C] _ _ _ _ Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of [Gm] sense pass the biscuits, [C] please
Is _ this _ [F] five more acres in the lower 40 I've got to plan
_ _ _ _ And [C] mama said it was a shame about Billy Joe _ _
_ _ _ _ Seems [F] nothing ever comes to no good.
I'm on Chuck Toree
_ Bridge _ and [C] now Billy Joe [Bb] McAllister's jumped off the teller [C] headship _
_ Brother _ _ _ _ said you recollected [Bb] when he and Tom and [C] Billy Joe
_ _ Put _ a frog down my back [Gm] at the Carroll County picture [C] show Oh
_ _ [E] _ _ [F] And was am I talking to him after church last Sunday night _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] And I'll have another piece of apple pie, you know, it don't seem right _ I
_ _ _ [F] Saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Chuck Toree
_ _ _ _ And
[C] Now you tell me Billy [Bb] Joe's jumped off the teller
[C] _ _
_ _ Mama _ _ _ said to me [Gm] child what's happened to [F] your [C] appetite?
_ _ _ _ _ I've been cooking all morning [Gm] and you haven't touched a single
[C] Bite
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ [F] Then my young preacher brother Taylor dropped by today
_ _ _ _ _ [D] Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday.
_ Oh, by the [E] way
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [F] He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you on Chuck Toree
_ _ _ _ And [C] she and Billy Joe was throwing [Bb] something off the teller
A _ _ _ _ year _ _ is coming gone [Gm] since we heard the news about [C] Billy Joe
_ _ _ _ _ _ Brother married Becky Thompson.
[Gm] He bought a store in
[C] _ _
_ There _ _ [F] was a virus going around Papa caught it and he died last spring _
_ _ _ _ And [C] now mama doesn't seem to want [E] to do much of anything _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [F] And me I spent a lot of time picking flowers
Chuck Toree _
_ _ _ _ [C] Then drop them into the [Bb] muddy water of the teller
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