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Verse 1
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It was the third of June,
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another sleepy, dusty Delta day
I was out choppin' cotton and
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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
"I got some news this mornin'
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from Choctaw Ridge
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"Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped
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off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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'N' Papa said to Mama as he passed
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around the blackeyed peas
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"Well Billy Joe never had a lick of sense,
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pass the biscuits, please
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"There's five more acres in the lower
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forty I've got to plow
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'N' Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe,
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anyhow
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Seems like nothin' ever comes to no
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good up on Choctaw Ridge
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And now Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped
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off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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'N' Brother said he recollected
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when he and Tom and Billie Joe
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Put a frog down my back at the Carroll
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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- a apple pie,
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you know it don't seem right
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"I saw him at the sawmill yesterday
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on Choctaw Ridge
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"And now ya tell me Billie Joe's jumped
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off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Verse 10
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'N' Mama said to me
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"Child, what's happened to
your appetite?
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"I've been cookin' all morning and
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you haven't touched a single bite
Verse 12
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"That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor,
dropped by today
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Verse 13
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"Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday,
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oh, by the way
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"He said he
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saw a girl that looked a lot
like you up on Choctaw Ridge
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"And she and Billy Joe was throwing
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somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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Verse 16
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A year has come 'n' gone since we
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heard the news 'bout Billy Joe
'N' 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
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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
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