Bobbie Gentry - Ode To Billie Joe Edit

A year has come 'n' gone since we heard the news 'bout Billie Joe

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

And Brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Billie Joe

And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge

And Mama said it was shame about Billie Joe, anyhow

And now Billie Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

And Papa said to Mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas

And she and Billie Joe was throwing

I've been cookin' all mornin' and you haven't touched a single bite

Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show

Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge

Somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

There was a virus goin' 'round, Papa caught it and he died last spring

Today Billie Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

Was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty delta day

'N' Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo