{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":660884,"song":"Ode To Billie Joe","artist":"Bobbie Gentry","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11578292-ode-to-billie-joe-chords-by-bobbie-gentry/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/660884?type=chord","rating":4.73664,"votes":624,"content":"This is one of my favorite songs and this version is much easier then the other version \r\nhere it is.\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D7[/ch]\r\nTwas the third of june another sleepy dusty delta day[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D7[/ch]\r\nI was out choppin cotton and my brother was balin' hay[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G7[/ch]\r\nAnd at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D7[/ch]\r\nAnd Mama hollered out the back door \"y'all remember to wipe your feet[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G7[/ch]\r\nAnd then she said \"I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]D7[/ch]                      [ch]C7[/ch]                    [ch]D7[/ch]\r\n\"Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D7[/ch]\r\nAnd Papa said to Mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D7[/ch]\r\n\"Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits, please\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G7[/ch]\r\n\"There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D7[/ch]\r\nAnd Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe, anyhow[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G7[/ch]\r\nSeems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]D7[/ch]                      [ch]C7[/ch]                    [ch]D7[/ch]\r\nAnd now Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D7[/ch]\r\nAnd Brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Billie Joe[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D7[/ch]\r\nPut a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G7[/ch]\r\nAnd wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D7[/ch]\r\n\"I'll have another piece of apple pie, you know it don't seem right\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G7[/ch]\r\n\"I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]D7[/ch]                     [ch]C7[/ch]                   [ch]D7[/ch]\r\n\"And now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D7[/ch]\r\nAnd Mama said to me \"Child, what's happened to your appetite?\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D7[/ch]\r\n\"I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't touched a single bite\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G7[/ch]\r\n\"That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D7[/ch]\r\n\"Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G7[/ch]\r\n\"He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]D7[/ch]                           [ch]C7[/ch]                   [ch]D7[/ch]\r\n\"And she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D7[/ch]\r\nA year has come 'n' gone since we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D7[/ch]\r\nAnd Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G7[/ch]\r\nThere was a virus going 'round, Papa caught it and he died last Spring[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D7[/ch]\r\nAnd now Mama doesn't seem to wanna do much of anything[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G7[/ch]\r\nAnd me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]D7[/ch]                    [ch]C7[/ch]                  [ch]D7[/ch]\r\nAnd drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge[/tab]","plain_text":"This is one of my favorite songs and this version is much easier then the other version \nhere it is.","chords":["D7","G7","C7","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"C7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,4,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,3,1,0]},"D7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,1,3],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,1,2]},"G7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[3,2,0,0,0,1],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,1]}}}