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It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day
I was out choppin` cotton and my brother was balin` 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 mornin` from Choctaw Ridge`
`Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge`
`n` Papa said to Mama as he passed around the blackeyed 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`
`n` Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe, anyhow
Seems like nothin` ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge
And now Billy Joe MacAllister`s jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
`n` 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 talkin` to him after church last Sunday night?
`I`ll have another piece-a apple pie, you know it don`t seem right`
`I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge`
`And now ya tell me Billie Joe`s jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge`
`n` 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 somethin` off the Tallahatchie Bridge`
A year has come `n` gone since we heard the news `bout Billy Joe
`n` 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 Send " Ode To Billy Joe" Ringtone to your Cell