The 5th Dimension - Ode to Billy Joe lyrics
[The 5th Dimension - Ode to Billy Joe 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 out the back
Door "y'all remember to wipe your feet"
And then she said "I got
Some news this mornin' from choctaw Ridge"
"Today Billy Joe Macallister jumped off the
Tallahatchie Bridge"
And Papa said to Mama as
He passed around the blackeyed peas
"Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense
Pass the biscuit's, please"
"There's five more acres in the
Lower forty I've got to plow"
And Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe
Anyhow seems like nothin' ever comes to
No good up on Choctaw ridge
And now Billy Joe Macallister's
Jumped off the tallahatchie Bridge
And Brother said he recollected when
He and Tom and billie Joe
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? "
"I've been cookin' all morning
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 Billy Joe was
Throwing somethin' off the
Tallahatchie Bridge"
A year has come 'n' gone since
We heard the news 'bout billy Joe
And Brother married Becky Thompson
They bought a store in Tupelo
There was a virus going 'round
Papa caught it and he died last Spring
And now Mama doesn't seem to
Wanna do much of anything 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
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 out the back
Door "y'all remember to wipe your feet"
And then she said "I got
Some news this mornin' from choctaw Ridge"
"Today Billy Joe Macallister jumped off the
Tallahatchie Bridge"
And Papa said to Mama as
He passed around the blackeyed peas
"Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense
Pass the biscuit's, please"
"There's five more acres in the
Lower forty I've got to plow"
And Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe
Anyhow seems like nothin' ever comes to
No good up on Choctaw ridge
And now Billy Joe Macallister's
Jumped off the tallahatchie Bridge
And Brother said he recollected when
He and Tom and billie Joe
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? "
"I've been cookin' all morning
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 Billy Joe was
Throwing somethin' off the
Tallahatchie Bridge"
A year has come 'n' gone since
We heard the news 'bout billy Joe
And Brother married Becky Thompson
They bought a store in Tupelo
There was a virus going 'round
Papa caught it and he died last Spring
And now Mama doesn't seem to
Wanna do much of anything 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