Biography:
Bobbie Gentry (born July 27, 1944) is an American singer-songwriter. She was born Roberta Lee Streeter to Portuguese parents in Chickasaw County, Mississippi. She shot to international fame in the summer of 1967 with the quirky and intriguing Ode to Billie Joe, written by Gentry and sung in her warm, captivating style. "Ode" was listed as the most popular single of the year in many U.S. record surveys and was admired by Frank Sinatra and other singers.
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Twas the third of june another sleepy dusty delta day
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I was out choppin cotton and my brother was balin' hay
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And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
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And Mama hollered out the back door y'all remember to wipe your feet
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And then she said I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge
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Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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And Papa said to Mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas
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Well Billy Joe never had a lick of sense pass the biscuits please
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There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow
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And Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe anyhow
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Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge
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And now Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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And Brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Billie Joe
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Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show
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And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night
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I'll have another piece of apple pie you know it don't seem right
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I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge
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And now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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And Mama said to me Child what's happened to your appetite
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I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't touched a single bite
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That nice young preacher Brother Taylor dropped by today
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Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday oh by the way
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He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge
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And she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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A year has come 'n' gone since we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe
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And Brother married Becky Thompson they bought a store in Tupelo
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There was a virus going 'round Papa caught it and he died last Spring
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And now Mama doesn't seem to wanna do much of anything
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And me I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
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And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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