"Ode to Billy Joe" Quotes
"Ode to Billy Joe" is a poignant coming-of-age story that explores the complexities of small-town secrets, teenage love, and tragedy in the American South.
Quotes
Some folks say that old Billy Joe jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge.
I was out choppin' cotton, and my brother was balin' hay.
It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day.
Mama said to me, 'Child, what's happened to your appetite?'
Papa said to me, 'Child, what's happened to your appetite?'
Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense; pass the biscuits, please.
He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge.
I reckon there's been a lot of those rumors going around.
Mama said she got a letter from the folks up north and brother Bob wrote me he was workin' in Illinois.
Don't ask me what I think of you; I might not give the answer that you want me to.
