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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
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