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Sinéad O'Connor( Sinead OConnor )



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Sinéad O'Connor( Sinead OConnor )

Ode To Billy Joe

It was the third of june, another sleepy, dusty delta day
I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was baling hay
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'
Then she said 'i got some news this morning from chocktow ridge
Today billy joe macallister jumped off the tallahachee bridge'

Papa said to mama as he passed around the black eyed peas
'well billy joe never had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits, please
There's five more acres in the lower forty i got to plow'
And mama said it was shame about billy joe, anyhow
Seems like nothing ever comes to no good on chocktow ridge
And now billy joe macallister's jumped off the tallahachee bridge

Mama said to me 'child, what's happened to your appetite?
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I've been cooking all morning and you haven't touched a single bite
That nice young preacher, brother taylor, dropped by today
Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on sunday, oh, by the way,
He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you on chocktow ridge
And she and billy joe was throwing something off the tallahachee bridge'

A year has come and gone since we heard the news about billy joe
Brother married becky thompson, they bought a store in tupelo
There was a virus going 'round, papa caught it and he died last spring
And now mama doesn't seem to wanna do much of anything
And me, i spend a lot of time picking flowers up on chocktow ridge
And drop them into the muddy water off the tallahachee bridge





Sinéad O'Connor( Sinead OConnor )
Miscellaneous 1
Album songs
1.World Party
2.After The Fire
3.All Kinds Of Everything
4.Almost In Your Arms
5.Anachie Gordon
6.Angel(Live 23-09-98)
7.Ave Maria(Hush A Bye Baby Version)
8.Ave Maria
9.Baba O'riley
10.Be Still(Robin Guthrie Remix)
11.Be Still
12.Biko(Peter Gabriel)
13.Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair
14.Blood Of Eden(Radio Edit)
15.Blood Of Eden
16.Breakthrough
17.Cad Is Mian Leat?(What Do You Want)
18.Come Talk To Me
19.Damn Your Eyes
20.Danny Boy
21.Donald-o
22.Don't Give Up [radio Edit/ Special Version]
23.Don't Give Up
24.Dream A Little Dream Of Me
25.Factory Girl
26.Famine Reynolds Extended Mix
27.Fire On Babylon Live Version 1997
28.Fly Me To The Moon
29.Hard Sun
30.Haunted
31.Have I Told You Lately
32.Hawaiian Island World
33.He Moved Through The Fair(Live)
34.He Moved Through The Fair
35.Hold On
36.Homeless
37.Chiquitita
38.I Am Enough For Myself(Ii)
39.Where Is A Woman To Go
40.I Believe In You
41.I'm Not Your Baby(Alternate Version)
42.I'm Not Your Baby
43.Irish Ways And Irish Laws
44.War
45.Josey Walsh
46.Jump In The River(Ii)
47.Kingdom Of Rain
48.Make Me A Channel Of Your Peace
49.Make Me A Channel Of Your Peace.
50.Middle Of The Island
51.Mna/ Na He/ireann
52.Monkey In Winter
53.Morning Time
54.Mother
55.My Heart Belongs To Daddy
56.My Man's Gone Now
57.My Special Child
58.Ode To Billy Joe (Modify)
59.Petit Poulet
60.Visions Of You
61.Power Breaks(Max)
62.Raglan Road
63.Reaching For The Rail
64.Redemption Song
65.Sacrifice
66.Savage Earth Heart / Satifaction
67.She Moved Through The Fair
68.Ship Ahoy
69.Silent Night(Ii)
70.Silent Night
71.Skibbereen
72.Someday My Prince Will Come
73.Someone To Watch Over Me
74.Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
75.Song With No Name
76.Speech At The End Of The Album
77.Still Listening
78.Streets Of London
79.This Is To Mother You(October 30Th 1996)
80.Sweet Divinity
81.Sweet Soul Dream
82.Sweet Violets(Mary Beth)
83.Take My Hand
84.The Butcher Boy
85.The Dreaming Of The Bones
86.The Foggy Dew
87.The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
88.The House Of The Rising Sun
89.The Mad Lady And Me
90.The Tide Is Turning(After The Wall Live)
91.The Value Of Ignorance
92.The Wild Rover
93.The Women Of Ireland