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It was the third of June another sleepy dusty Delta day |
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I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was bailin' 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 at the backdoor y'all remember to wipe your feet |
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And then she said I got the news this mornin' from Choctaw Wridge |
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Today Billie Joe Macallister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge |
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Papa said to mama as he passed around the black eyed peas |
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Well Billie Joe never had a lick of sense pass the biscuits please |
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There's five more acres in the lower forty I got to plow |
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And mama said it was a shame about Billie Joe anyhow |
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Seems like nothing ever comes to no good upon Choctaw Wridge |
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And now Billie Joe Macallister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge |
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Brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Billie Joe |
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Put a frog down my back at the Carroll 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 of apple pie you know it don't seem right |
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I saw him at the sawmill yesterday upon Choctaw Wridge |
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And now you tell me Billie Joe has jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge |
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Mama said to me child what's happened to your apetite |
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Well I've been cookin' all mornin' and you haven't touched a single bite |
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That nice young preacher brother Tailor dropped by today |
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Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday oh by the way |
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He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you upon Choctaw Wridge |
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She and Billie Joe was throwin' somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge |
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One year has come and gone since we heard the news about Billie Joe |
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Brother married Becky Thompson and they bought a store in Tupelo |
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There was virus goin' round papa caught it and he died last spring |
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And now mama doesn't seem to want to do much of anything |
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And me I spent a lot of time pickin' flowers upon Chotaw Wridge |
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And dropped 'em into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge |
