The song takes the form of a first-person narrative performed over sparse acoustic accompaniment. "Ode to Billie Joe" has since made Rolling Stone's lists of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" and the "100 Greatest Country Songs of All Time" and Pitchfork's "200 Best Songs of the 1960s". 3 song of the year.It generated eight Grammy nominations, resulting in three wins for Gentry and one for arranger Jimmie Haskell. The single, released on July 10, 1967, was a number-one hit in the US and a big international seller. Info: Ode to Billie Joe" is a song written and recorded by Bobbie Gentry, a singer-songwriter from Chickasaw County, Mississippi. There was a virus going round Poppa caught it and he died last Spring.Īnd now Momma doesn't seem to wanna do much - of anythingĪnd me, I spend a lot of time pickin flowers up on Choctaw Ridge.Īnd drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge. Brother married Becky Thompson they bought a store in Tupe-lo, A year has come and gone since we heard the news bout Billie Joe He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge.Īnd she and Billie Joe was throwing something off the Tallahatchie Bridge." Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way. That nice young preacher Brother Taylor dropped by today. Why, I've been cookin' all morning, and you haven't touched a single bite. ![]() Momma said to me "Child what's happened to your appe-tite? I saw him at the sawmill yesterday up on Choctaw Ridge.Īnd now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge. I'll have a-nother piece of apple pie, you know, it don't seem right. And, "Wasn't I talkin' to him after church, last Sunday night. Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County Picture Show And Brother said he recollected - when he and Tom, and Billie Joe Seems like nothing ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge.Īnd now Billie Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge. ![]() " There's five more acres in the lower forty - I got to plow.Īnd Momma said it was shame - about Billie Joe anyhow, Well Billie Joe never had a lick of sense - pass the biscuits please And Poppa said to Momma as he passed around the blackeyed peas Today Billie Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge. I was out chopping cotton, and my brother was bailing hay,Īnd at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat.Īnd Momma hollered out the back door "Y'all re - member to wipe your feet!"Īnd then she said, I got some news this mornin from Choctaw Ridge It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty, delta day ![]() Scroll Stop Speed Chords: Hide Show Top Bottom Right
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