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Verse 1
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Cm
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It was the third of June,
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another sleepy, dusty Delta day
I was out choppin' cotton and
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my brother was balin' hay
Bb
And at dinner time we stopped and we walked
back to the house to eat
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Cm
And mama hollered at the back door "y'all
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remember to wipe your feet"
Bb
And then she said she got some news this
mornin' from Choctaw Ridge
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Today Billie Joe MacAllister jumped
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off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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Verse 2
Cm
Papa said to mama as he passed
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around the blackeyed peas
"Well, Billie Joe never had a lick of sense,
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pass the biscuits, please"
Bb
"There's five more acres in the lower
forty I've got to plow"
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Cm
Mama said it was shame about Billie Joe,
Bb
Seems like nothin' ever comes to no
good up on Choctaw Ridge
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And now Billie Joe MacAllister jumped
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off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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Verse 3
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Brother said he recollected when
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he and Tom and Billie Joe
Put a frog down my back at the Car
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roll County picture show
Bb
And wasn't I talkin' to him after
church last Sunday night?
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"I'll have another piece of apple pie,
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you know it just don't seem right"
Bb
"I saw him at the sawmill yesterday
on Choctaw Ridge"
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"And now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped
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off the Tallahatchie Bridge"
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Verse 4
Mama said to me "Child,
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what's happened to your appetite?"
"I've been cookin' all morning and
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you haven't touched a single bite"
Bb
"That nice young preacher,
Brother Taylor, dropped by today"
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"Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday,
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oh, by the way"
Bb
"He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like
you up on Choctaw Ridge"
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"And she and Billie Joe was throwing
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somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge"
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Verse 5
Cm
A year has come 'n' gone since we heard
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the news 'bout Billie Joe
Brother married Becky Thompson,
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they bought a store in Tupelo
Bb
There was a virus going 'round,
papa caught it and he died last Spring
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And now mama doesn't seem to
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wanna do much of anything
Bb
And me, I spend a lot of time pickin'
flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
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And drop them into the muddy
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water off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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