Tonart: G major
Verse 1
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Was the 3rd of June
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another sleepy, dusty, Delta day?
I was out chopping cotton
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and my brother was baling hay.
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And at dinnertime we stopped
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and walked back to the house to eat
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And Mama hollered out the back door,
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you remember, to wipe your feet
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I got some news this morning
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Today, Billy Joe McAllister
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge.
Papa said to Mama
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as he passed around the
Well, Billy Joe never had a lick
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since past the biscuits please.
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There's five more acres
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in the lower forty I've got to plow
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And Mama said it was a shame
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about Billy Joe anyhow
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Seems like nothing ever
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up on Chanterelle Ridge
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And now a Billy Joe McAllister
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
My brother Sammy recollected
when he and Tom and Billy Joe
Put a frog down my back
at the Carroll County Picture Show
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And wasn't I talking to him
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at the church last Sunday night?
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I'll have another piece of apple pie,
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you know it don't seem right.
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I saw him at the Soviet yesterday,
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I chocked a ridge.
A year has come and gone
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since we heard the news about Billy Joe
My brother married Kirsten Johnson,
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they bought a store in Tupelo
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There was a virus going round,
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Papa caught it and he got a sprain
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And now Mama doesn't seem to
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want to do much of anything
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And me, I spend a lot of time
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picking flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
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And drop them into the muddy water
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of the Tallahatchie Bridge.
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