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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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It was the 3rd of June,
another sleepy dusty day out today
I was out chopping cotton
and my brother was bailing hay
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And then at dinner time
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I stopped and walked by the house to eat
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And mama hollered out the back door,
y 'all remember to wipe your feet
And then she said,
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I got some news this morning
up from Choctaw Ridge
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Today, Billy Joe McAllister
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
And Papa said to Mama
as they passed around the
black -eyed peas
Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense
and passed the biscuits, please
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There are five more acres
in the lower forty
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I've got to plough
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Mama said it was a shame
about Billy Joe anyhow
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It seems like nothing
ever comes of no good
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up on Choctaw Ridge
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And now you tell me Billy Joe
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has jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
And brother said he recollected
when he and Tom and Billy Joe
Put a frog down my back
at the Garrow Canopy Show
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And wasn't I talking to him
after church last Sunday night?
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I'll have another piece of apple pie,
you know it don't seem right
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I saw him after summer yesterday
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up on Choctaw Ridge
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The day that Billy Joe McAllister
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
And mama says to me, child,
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what's happened to your appetite?
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I've been a -cookin' all morning
and you haven't touched a single bite
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That nice young preacher,
Brother Taylor,
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dropped by today
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Said he'd be pleased to have
dinner on Sunday
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He said he saw a girl that looked like you
up on Choctaw Ridge
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She and Billy Joe was throwin' somethin'
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off the Tallahatchie Boulevard
Well, the years come and gone
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since we heard the news about Billy Joe
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An d Brother Mary, Becky Thompson
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and that bottle -stallin' T -Blo
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There was a virus goin' round,
Papa caught it and he died last spring
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An d now poor Mama
doesn't seem to wanna
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An d me, I spend my time
pickin' flowers
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up on Choctaw Ridge
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Tossed him into the muddy water
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off the Tallahatchie Bridge
The day that village old McCallis
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still jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Outro 1
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