Şarkı sözü BOBBIE GENTRY Ode To Billie Joe,Besteci:B.Gentry,Yazar:B.Gentry
Şarkıcı : BOBBIE GENTRY
Yazar : B.Gentry
Besteci : B.Gentry
It was a third of JuneAnother sleepy dust Delta dayI was out hocppin' cotton and my brother was bailing hayAnd at dinner time we stoppedAnd walked back to the house to eatAnd Mama hollered at the back door"Yo, remember to wipe your feet"And then she said"I got some news this mornin' from Calk Toridge.Today Billy Joe Machalas jumped off from Talahatchy bridge." Papa said to Mama as he passed around the black-eyed peas"Well Billy Joe never had lick a sense,Pass the biscuits, please.There's 5 more acres in the lower 40 I got to plow."And Mama said"It was a shame about Billie Joe anyhow"Seems like nothing ever comes to no good up on Chalk ToridgeAnd now Billy Joe Machalas jumped off from Talahatchy bridge Brother said the recollected when he and Tom and Billy JoePut a frog down my backAt the Cattle Country picture show"And wasn't I talking to him after church last Sunday night.I'll have another piece of apple pie, you know it don't seem ringht.I saw him at the saw mill yesterday on Chalk Toridge.And now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped offFrom Talahatchy bridge." Mama said to me "Child, what's happend to your appetite?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 Chalk Toridge.And she and Billy Joe was throwin' somethingOff the Talahatchy bridge." A year has come and goneSince we heard the news about Billy JoeBrother married Becky ThompsonThey brought a storeIn Toppellow There was a virus goin' aroundPapa caught it and he died last springAnd now Mama doesn't seem to want to do much a anythingAnd me I spend a lot of time picking flowers upOn Chalk TridgeAnd drop them into the muddy water off the Talahatchy bridge