THE 5TH DIMENSION – ODE TO BILLY JOE

THE 5TH DIMENSION – ODE TO BILLY JOE Lyrics

Artist: THE 5TH DIMENSION
Song: ODE TO BILLY JOE

It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta
Day
I was out choppin’ cotton and my brother was balin’ hay
And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the

House to eat
And Mama hollered out the back door “y’all remember to
Wipe your feet”
And then she said “I got some news this mornin’ from

Choctaw Ridge”
“Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the
Tallahatchie Bridge”
And Papa said to Mama as he passed around the blackeyed

Peas
“Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense, pass thecuits, please”
“There’s five more acres in the lower forty I’ve got to
Plow”

And Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe, anyhow
Seems like nothin’ ever comes to no good up on Choctaw
Ridge
And now Billy Joe MacAllister’s jumped off the

Tallahatchie Bridge
And Brother said he recollected when he and Tom and
Billie Joe
Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture

Show
And wasn’t I talkin’ to him after church last Sunday
Night?
Don’t seem right”

“I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge”
“And now you tell me Billie Joe’s jumped off the
Tallahatchie Bridge”
And Mama said to me “Child, what’s happened to your

Appetite?”
“I’ve been cookin’ all morning and you haven’t touched
A single bite”
“That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by

Today”
“Said he’d be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by
The way”
“He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on

Choctaw Ridge”
“And she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin’ off the
Tallahatchie Bridge”
A year has come ‘n’ gone since we heard the news ’bout

Billy Joe
And Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store
In Tupelo
There was a virus going ’round, Papa caught it and he

Died last Spring
And now Mama doesn’t seem to wanna do much of anything
And me, I spend a lot of time pickin’ flowers up on
Choctaw Ridge

And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie
Bridge
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Release Year: 1971