Bobby Gentry - Ode To Billy Joe guitar tab

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"Ode to Billy Joe"

Key of F, Common Time "With a beat"

Words and music by Bobbie Gentry

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It was the third of June,

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Another sleepy, dusty,

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I was out choppin' cotton

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And my brother was bailin' hay

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And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat

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And Mama hollered at the back door,

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"Y'all remember to wipe your feet."

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Then she said,

"I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge

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Today Billy Joe McAllister

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Jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge."

Michael shaw

shaw95@wharton.upenn.edu