[ti:Ode To Billy Joe] [ar:Patricia Barber] [al:Cafe Blue] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ode To Billy Joe - Patricia Barber [00:14.07]It was the third of June [00:15.45] [00:17.76]Another sleepy dusty Delta day [00:21.81] [00:26.48]I was out choppin' cotton [00:28.11] [00:30.39]And my brother was balin' hay [00:32.66] [00:38.90]At dinner time we stopped [00:40.71] [00:42.78]Walked back to the house to eat [00:45.37] [00:50.79]Mama hollered out the back door [00:53.08] [00:56.44]"Y'all remember to wipe your feet" [00:58.19] [01:03.91]Then she said "I got some news [01:06.69]This mornin' from Choctaw Ridge" [01:10.86] [01:14.27]"Today Billy Joe Mac Allister [01:16.56] [01:17.72]Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge" [01:22.13] [01:28.77]Papa said to Mama as he passed [01:33.21]Around the black eyed peas [01:34.68] [01:40.41]"Well Billy Joe never had a lick of sense [01:42.72] [01:45.08]Pass the biscuits please" [01:46.22] [01:53.80]"There's five more