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and I was sleepy, dusty, dead today
I was out counting cotton
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and my brother was bailing hay
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At the dinner time we stopped
and walked back to the house to eat
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And mama hollered at the vector,
you all remember to wipe your feet
And then she said,
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I got some news this morning
from Charter Ridge
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Today Billy Joel McAllister
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Papa said to mama as he passed round
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the black -eyed peas
Old Billy Joe never had a
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pass the biscuits please
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in the lower forty 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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An d now Billy Joe McAllister's
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Brother said he recollected
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when he and Tom and Billy joked
About a frog down my back
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at the Carroll County Picture Show
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And wasn't I talking to him
after church last Sunday night
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I'll have another piece of apple pie,
you know, you don't seem right
yesterday on Chalkham Ridge
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And now you tell me Billy Jones
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Mama said to me, child,
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what's happened to your appetite?
Well, I've been cooking all morning
and you haven't touched a single bite
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That nice, younger preacher
brother Taylor got by today
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Said he'd be pleased to have dinner
on Sunday, oh by the way
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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something off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Her year has come and gone
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since we heard the news
Rather married back then so
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Their bodies turned into a log
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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
want too much of anything
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And me, spend a lot of time,
pick flowers up and chop the ridge
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And drop them into the muddy water
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of the Tallahatchie Bridge
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