Ode To Billie Joe

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Twas the third of june another 
sleepy dusty delta day
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I was out choppin cotton and 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 
"y'all remember to wipe your feet
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And then she said "I got some news 
this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge"
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"Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped
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 off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

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And Papa said to Mama as he passed 
around the blackeyed peas
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"Well, Billy 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've got to plow"
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And Mama said it was shame about 
Billy Joe, anyhow
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Seems like nothin' ever comes to no 
good up on Choctaw Ridge
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And now Billy Joe MacAllister's 
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

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And 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 
on Choctaw Ridge"
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"And now you tell me Billie Joe's 
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

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And Mama said to me "Child, what's 
happened to your appetite?"
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"I've been cookin' all morning and 
you haven't touched a single bite"
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"That nice young preacher, Brother 
Taylor, 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 up on Choctaw Ridge"
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"And she and Billy Joe was throwing
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 somethin' off the Tallahatchie 
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Bridge"

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A year has come 'n' gone since we 
heard the news 'bout Billy Joe
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And Brother married Becky Thompson, 
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 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