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Verse 1
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It was the
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another sleepy, dusty, Delta day
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I was out chopping cotton
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An d my brother was out baling hay
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And that dinner time was stopped
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I walked back to the house to eat
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And mama hollered at the back door
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Y 'all remember to
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wipe your feet
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She said I got some news
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this mornin'
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From up on Choctaw Ridge
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Today Billy Joe McAllister
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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And Papa said to Mama
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as he passed around
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the Black Eyed Peas
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Well you know that Billy Joe
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never had a lick of shanty now
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Pass the biscuits, please
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There's five more
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acres in the lower forty
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that I gotta plow
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Mama says she was ashamed
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Well, it seems like nothing ever comes to know,
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no, good, no, up on Choctaw Ridge
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And now a village old McCallister's
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
And mama said, child,
what's happened,
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what's happened to your appetite?
You know I've been
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and you haven't even touched
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a single bite.
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Well, that nice young preacher,
he dropped by today
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Oh, and he said he'd be pleased
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to have dinner on Sunday
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Oh, and by the way,
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he said he saw a girl
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that looked a lot like you
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up on Choctaw Ridge
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And she and Benny Joe
was throwing something
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off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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A year has come and gone
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Since we heard the news
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about Bill and Joe
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My brother married Becky Thompson
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An d they bought a store
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down in Tupelo
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There was a fire and it's going around
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Papa caught it and he died last spring
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And now mama don't
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don't want to do much of anything
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And me, I spend a lot of time
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pickin' flowers
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up on Choctaw Ridge
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And throw them into the muddy water
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of the Tallahatchie Bridge
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I'll see you next time.
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