Avatar feed
Responses: 10
LTC Stephen F.
15
15
0
Edited >1 y ago
Thank you my friend SGT (Join to see) for sharing the music video of Bobby Gentry performing the somber and beautiful song "Ode to Billy Joe"

Ode to Billy Joe by Bobbie Gentry
Lyrics
"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
And 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
And 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
And…"

FYI Maj William W. 'Bill' Price Capt Seid Waddell Capt Tom Brown 1stSgt Eugene Harless CW5 John M. MSG Andrew White SFC William Farrell SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4"SCPO Morris Ramsey SGT Michael Thorin SGT Robert George SGT John " Mac " McConnell SP5 Mark Kuzinski SP5 Robert Ruck SPC Margaret Higgins Maj Marty Hogan SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL SSgt Brian Brakke
(15)
Comment
(0)
Avatar small
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
9
9
0
SGT (Join to see) Definitely a Haunting, Spooky Song! I Remember It Well, Lots of Questions and No Answers.
(9)
Comment
(0)
Avatar small
SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
8
8
0
Thank you for the great share brother.
(8)
Comment
(0)
Avatar small

Join nearly 2 million former and current members of the US military, just like you.

close