Gentry Bobbie - Ode To Billie Joe Lyrics

A B C D E F J H I G K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Lyrics Directory>> G>> Gentry Bobbie Singer Lyrics>> Ode To Billie Joe Song Lyrics
Artist: Gentry Bobbie
Gentry Bobbie Author
Song Title: Ode To Billie Joe
Visits: 779
Print Version


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 Billie Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

And Papa said to Mama as he passed around the blackeyed 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 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
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 Billie Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

A year has come 'n' gone since we heard the news 'bout Billie 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

Ode To Billie Joe Lyrics at Lyricstrue

E-Mail, IM, Text :
Websites & Blogs :
Forums :

Other Gentry Bobbie song Lyrics
  • Mississippi Delta
    "M I double S I double S I double P I
    M I double S I double S I double P I
    Right in the middle of the cotton belt
    Down in the Mississippi Delta..."
  • Fancy
    "Well, I remember it all very well lookin' back
    It was the summer that I turned eighteen.
    We lived in a one-room, run down shack
    on the outskirts of New Orleans...."
  • Son Of A Preacher Man
    "Billy-Ray was a preacher's son
    And when his daddy would visit he'd come along
    When they gathered round and started talkin'
    That's when Billy would take me walkin'..."
  • Ode To Billy Joe
    "Words and Music by Bobbie Gentry
    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..."
  • Apartment 21
    "Rain on my Sunday shoes
    Pick up the daily news
    Looks like tomorrows blues
    But its better than none..."
  • Ill Never Fall In Love Again
    "What do you get when you fall in love?
    A guy with a pin to burst your bubble.
    That's what you get for all your trouble.
    I'll never fall in love again...."
  • Chickasaw County Child
    "Just outside of delta country
    Where the bitter weeds growin wild
    Born seven miles outside of Woodland
    Was a Chicasaw County child..."
  • All I Have To Do Is Dream
    "Let It Be Me
    Originally charted by Jill Corey at # 57 in 1957 and later by Betty Everett and Jerry
    English Words by Mann Curtis and Music by Gilbert Becaud
    I bless the day I found you..."

    •  Help make our music text archive better:
  • If you know some new information about Ode To Billie Joe, or other song from our site, that isn’t already on song page, please let us know, Any refinement, news, or comment is appreciated.
  • If information about Ode To Billie Joe, or any song from moodpoint directory is wrong, please contact us and write where the incorrect data should be replaced by correct data.
  • if you know song lyric, that isn’t already on moodpoint lyrics directory, please use "Add Lyrics" to submit it.

    You cannot find the text of a song?
  • Use "Find Lyrics" box on our site, try to use different artist or (and) song title(ex: Ode To Billie Joe) word forms.
    For example: Artist "Kane & Abel" can be found also by "Kane Abel" words.
  • If it has not helped, write us all information that you know about this song, we try to help you.


    • Home | | Privacy Policy | Add Lyrics |
    All lyrics are copyright of their respective owners. Copyright © 2007 moodpoint.com
    Home

    Privacy Policy
    Add Lyrics

    Top Songs
    Top Artists
    Top Albums

    Find Lyrics

    Other Artists
  • Genuwine
  • Geoff Moore
  • Geoff Moore And The Distance
  • Geoff Tate
  • Geordie
  • George
  • Georges Brassens
  • Georges Chelon
  • Georges Moustaki
  • George Baker Selection

    Other Lyrics
  • Called To Hope - Geoff Moore And The Distance
  • Come To Me - Geoff Moore And The Distance
  • Declaration - Geoff Moore And The Distance
  • Desperate Men - Geoff Moore And The Distance
  • Evidence Of God - Geoff Moore And The Distance
  • Evolution...Redefined - Geoff Moore And The Distance
  • Follow You - Geoff Moore And The Distance
  • Foundations - Geoff Moore And The Distance
  • Good To Be Alive - Geoff Moore And The Distance
  • Heart To God, Hand To Man - Geoff Moore And The Distance