Ballad Of Billy Joe Chords
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| Difficulty: | intermediate |
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| Tuning: | E A D G B E |
| Key: | F |
| Capo: | no capo |
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Tom Jones - Ballad Of Billy Joe
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[ A Capella Intro]
F
I'm the man their gonna hang for killing Billie Joe
But there's a whole lot more to the story than they know
Listen to my side of it and I think that you will see
The reason that I killed the boy that made a fool of me
[Intro]
F C
[Verse]
F
There was a girl named Mary Anne
Bb C F C
And Mary Anne meant all the world to me
F
We planned to get married
Bb C F
We set the date the wedding was to be
[Chorus]
Bb C
But I walked up to her house one night
Bb C F
And out there on the front porch they sat
Bb C F C
And then I swore he'd never get away with that
[Verse 2]
F Bb C F C
Billie Joe took Mary Anne and went up to the dance hall one night
F Bb C F
They didn't know that I was standing back there in the shadows out of sight
[Chorus 2]
Bb C Bb C F
They sat down at a table and she smiled as he gave her hand the pat
Bb C F F7
And then I swore he'd never get away with that
[Bridge]
Bb Eb F Bb
I swore he'd never get away with breaking my heart
C G C
I knew that there was just one way to keep them apart
[Verse 3]
F Bb
Everybody says his mother begged him
C F C
Not to take his guns to town
F
He should have listened to her
Bb C F
She knew that I was gonna shoot him down
[Chorus 3]
Bb C Bb C F
I'll be hung tomorrow just because I had to kill that little rat
Bb C F
But I swore he'd never get away with that
Bb C F Bb F
And Billie Joe didn't get away with that
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