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It was the third of June

Another sleepy, dusty Delta day

I was out chopping cotton

And my brother was baling hay

And at dinner time we stopped

And walked back to the house to eat

And Mama hollered out the back door

Y’all remember to wipe your feet

And then she said

I got some news this morning from Choctaw Ridge

Today, Billy Joe MacAllister

Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

And Papa said to Mama

As he passed around the black eyed peas

Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense

Pass the biscuits, please

There’s five more acres in the lower forty I’ve got to plow

And Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe, anyhow

Seems like nothing ever comes

To no good up on Choctaw Ridge

And now Billy Joe MacAllister’s jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

And Brother said he recollected

When he and Tom and Billie Joe

Put a frog down my back

At the Carroll County picture show

And wasn’t I talking to him

After church last Sunday night?

I’ll have another piece of apple pie

You know it don’t seem right

I saw him at the sawmill

Yesterday on Choctaw Ridge

And now you tell me

Billie Joe’s jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

And Mama said to me

Child, what’s happened to your appetite?

I’ve been cookin' all morning

And you haven’t touched a single bite

That nice young preacher

Brother Taylor dropped by today

Said he’d be pleased to have dinner on Sunday

Oh, by the way

He said he saw a girl

That looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge

And she and Billy Joe

Was throwing something off the Tallahatchie Bridge

A year has come 'n' gone

Since we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe

And Brother married Becky Thompson

They bought a store in Tupelo

There was a virus going 'round

Papa caught it and he died last spring

And now Mama doesn’t seem

To wanna do much of anything

And me

I spend a lot of time

Pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge

And drop them into the muddy water

Off the Tallahatchie Bridge

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