Chords for Ode to Billy Joe

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Was the 3rd of June, [Am] another sleepy dusty [D] Delta day
_ _ _ I _ was out chopping [Am] cotton and my brother was [D] baling hay _ _ _ _
And [G] 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 _ _ _
_ And [G] then she said, I got some news this morning from Choctaw _ _ Ridge
_ _ Today [D] Billy Joe McAllister [C] jumped off the Tallahatchie [D] _ Bridge _
_ _ _ And Papa said to Mama [Am] as he passed around the black [D] eyed peas _ _
_ _ Well Billy Joe never had liquor [Am] since, pass the [D] biscuits _ please
_ _ There's [G] 5 more acres in the lower 40 I 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 Choctaw _ _ Ridge
_ And [D] now Billy Joe McAllister's [C] jumped off the Tallahatchie [D] Bridge _
_ _ _ _ Brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Billy Joe _ _
Put _ a frog down my back at the Carroll County Picture Show _ _
_ _ And [G] wasn't I talking to him after church last Sunday _ night _
_ _ I'll have [Bm] another piece of [D] apple pie, you know it don't seem right _
I _ _ _ [G] saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge _ _
_ _ And [D] now you tell me Billy Joe's [C] jumped off the Tallahatchie [D] _ Bridge _
_ _ _ _ Mama said to me, [Am] child what's happened to your [D] appetite _ _ _
I've _ been cooking all morning [Am] and you haven't touched a [C] single [D] bite _
That _ _ _ [G] nice young preacher brother Taylor dropped by today _ _
_ _ _ Said he'd [D] be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh by the way _
_ _ _ [G] He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw _ _ Ridge
_ And [D] she and Billy Joe was throwing [C] something off the Tallahatchie [D] _ Bridge _
A _ _ year has come and gone [Am] since we heard the news about [D] Billy Joe _ _
[D] _ Brother _ _ married Becky [Am] Thompson, they bought a store in [D] Tupelo _ _ _
_ _ There [G] was 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 _ _
_ And _ [G] me I spend a lot of time picking flowers up on Choctaw _ _ Ridge
_ And [D] drop them into the muddy [C] water off the [G] Tallahatchie Bridge
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