Ode to Billy Joe

Bobby Gentry

#Michael shaw (shaw95@wharton.upenn.edu)

Key of F, Common Time "With a beat"

Words and music by Bobbie Gentry

It was the t F7 hird of June,

Another s Cm7 leepy, dusty, F7

I was F7 out choppin' cotton

And my b Cm7 rother was bailin' hay F7

And at d Bb7 inner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat

And Mama h F7 ollered at the back door,

"Y'all re Cm7 member to wipe your feet." F7

Then she sai Bb7 d,

"I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge

Today B F7 illy Joe McAllister

Jumped Eb7 off the Tallahatchee Bridge F ."

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