Ode To Billie Joe - Tammy Wynette

作词：B. Gentry

作曲：B. Gentry

It was the third of June another

Sleepy dusty Delta day

I was out choppin' cotton and

My brother was bailin' hay

And at dinner time we stopped

And walked back to the house to eat

And mama hollered at the backdoor

Y'all remember to wipe your feet

And then she said I got the news

This mornin' from Choctaw Wridge

Today Billie Joe Macallister's

Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

Papa said to mama as he passed

Around the black eyed peas

Well Billie Joe never had a lick

Of sense pass the biscuits please

There's five more acres in the

Lower forty I got to plow

And mama said it was a shame

About Billie Joe anyhow

Seems like nothing ever comes

To no good upon Choctaw Wridge

And now Billie Joe Macallister's

Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

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

I'll have another piece of

Apple pie you know it don't seem right

I saw him at the sawmill

Yesterday upon Choctaw Wridge

And now you tell me Billie

Joe has jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

Mama said to me child what's

Happened to your apetite

Well I've been cookin' all mornin'

And you haven't touched a single bite

That nice young preacher brother

Tailor 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 upon Choctaw Wridge

She and Billie Joe was throwin'

Somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge

One year has come and gone since

We heard the news about Billie Joe

Brother married Becky Thompson and

They bought a store in Tupelo

There was virus goin' round papa

Caught it and he died last spring

And now mama doesn't seem

To want to do much of anything

And me I spent a lot of time pickin'

Flowers upon Chotaw Wridge

And dropped 'em into the muddy water

Off the Tallahatchie Bridge