Ode to Billie Joe

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Because there's always a little more room in your head for Southern Gothic.

  1. 1

    Allowing for some doubt, where can we judge the song's action takes place?

  2. 2

    What was the song's narrator doing before she's called to the dinner table?

  3. 3

    What does Mama tell the narrator and her brother to do first?

  4. 4

    When did the big news arrive?

  5. 5

    What was on the menu for this fateful meal?

  6. 6

    How many more acres does Papa have to plow in the lower 40?

  7. 7

    Does anything ever come to any good up on Choctaw Ridge?

  8. 8

    Where did Brother and Billie Joe play a prank on the narrator?

  9. 9

    What did they put down her back?

  10. 10

    Where was the narrator seen talking to Billie Joe recently?

  11. 11

    Where did Brother last see Billie Joe?

  12. 12

    How does our narrator react to the news?

  13. 13

    Who dropped by while the narrator was at work in the fields?

  14. 14

    What did the visitor promise to Mama?

  15. 15

    How long has it been since the narrator heard the news?

  16. 16

    Who did Brother marry?

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    Where did Brother and his bride move?

  18. 18

    Where's Papa now?

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    How's Mama these days?

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    And how about our narrator -- what's she up to?

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