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