Tonart: Bb major
Verse 1
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It was the 3rd of June,
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another sleepy, dusty day out today
Well I was out chopping cotton
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and my brother was baling hay
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And at dinnertime we stopped
and walked back to the house
to have a bite to eat
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And Mama hollered out the back door,
hey remember to wipe your feet
I've got some news this morning
from on Choctaw Ridge
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Today, Billy Joe McCallister
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Papa said to Mama
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as he passed around the
black -eyed bees
Well, Billy Joe never had to let the scent pass the biscuits,
please
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There are five more acres
in the lower forty I've got to plow
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Mama said it was a shame
about Billy Joe anyhow
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Seems like nothing ever
comes to no good
upon a chopped down ridge
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And now Billy Joel McAllister
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jumped off the Tallahatchie
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Bridge
Mama said to me, child,
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what's happened to your appetite?
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I've been cooking all morning
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and you haven't touched
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That nice young creature,
Brother Taylor,
dropped by today
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Said he'd be pleased to have dinner
on Sunday, by the way
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Said he saw a boy that looked a lot like you
up on Choctaw Ridge
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And him and Billy Joe
were throwin' somethin'
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off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Years come and gone
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since they heard the news
Brother married Becky Thompson,
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bought a star and two pillows
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There was a virus going round
and round in of Cornish
and he died last spring
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Now mama doesn't seem to want
to do much of anything
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And me, I spend a lot of time
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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