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Artist/Band: Jackie Wilson
Lyrics for Song: Ode To Billie Joe
Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - Jackie Wilson



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"



'N' Papa said to Mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas

"Well Billy Joe never had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits, please"

"There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow"

'N' 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



'N' 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-a apple pie, you know it don't seem right"

"I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge"

"And now ya tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"



'N' 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

'N' 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


Album Lyrics: Other Songs - Jackie Wilson


Jackie Wilson
"Other Songs - Jackie Wilson"


1. (it Will Have To Do) Until The Real Thing Comes Along
2. Adeste Fideles
3. April Showers
4. As Long As I Live
5. Baby Get It (And Don't Quit It)
6. Blue Moon
7. California, Here I Come
8. Chain Gang
9. Deck The Halls
10. Eleanor Rigby
11. He's Got The Whole World In His Hands
12. Hearts
13. I Apologize
14. I Believe
15. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
16. I Just Can't Help It
17. It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
18. It Only Happens (When I Look At You)
19. Little Things Mean A Lot
20. My Girl
21. My Yiddishe Momme
22. O Little Town Of Bethlehem
23. Ode To Billie Joe
24. Over The Rainbow
25. Respect
26. Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody
27. Shake A Hand
28. Silver Bells
29. St. Louis Blues
30. Stardust
31. Swanee
32. That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)
33. The First Noel
34. This Bitter Earth
35. This Guy's In Love With You
36. Three Coins In The Fountain
37. Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goodbye
38. Uptight (Everything's Alright)
39. You'll Never Walk Alone
40. Body And Soul
41. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen