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Verse 1
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It was the 3rd of June,
another sleepy, dusty day today
Sis was out shopping cotton,
yeah, yeah, I was bailing hay
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And at dinner time we stopped
and walked back to eat
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And my mama hollered out the back door,
Y 'all remember to wipe your feet
I got some news this mornin'
from Choctaw Ridge
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Today Billy Joe McAllister
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Jumped off the Tallahassee Bridge
You know my papa said to my mama
As they passed around
the black eyed peas
Well Billy Joe never had a licker since
Pass the biscuits please
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There's five more acres in the low forty
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I've got to plow
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And mama said it was a shame
about Billy Joe anyhow
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Seems like nothing ever
comes to no good
up on Choctaw Ridge
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And now my buddy Billy Joe McAllister
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jumped off a Tallahatchie bridge
I said I recollected when me
and Tom and Billy Joe
Put a frog down since his back
at Carroll's County Picture Show
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And I was talkin' to him at church
last Sunday night
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And I saw him at the sawmill,
yeah, and it seemed all right
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I remember I saw him at
the sawmill
yesterday on Choctaw Ridge
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And now you tell me, Billy Joe
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Mama said to sis, child,
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what's happened
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to your appetite?
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I've been cooking all morning,
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and you haven't
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touched a single bite
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That nice young preacher,
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Brother Taylor dropped by yesterday
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Said he'd be pleased to have dinner
on Sunday,
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an d by the way
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He said he saw a young lady down,
down on Choptop Ridge
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Looked like you, she and Billy Joe
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was throwing something out
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At the Tallahatchie Bridge
One year has come and gone
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Since we heard the news
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about Billy Joe
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My father married Becky Thompson
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They had a story to blow
There was a virus going round
Papa thought he could die last spring
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And now my momma doesn't seem
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to want to do much of anything
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And me, I spend my time with my sis,
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picking flowers on Choctaw Ridge
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We take them and drop them
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into the muddy waters
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off of the Tallahatchie Bridge
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Bye Billy, bye buddy, oh yeah
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