It was the third of June Another sleepy dusty Delta day I was out choppin cotton And my brother was a bailin hay And at dinner time we stopped And walked back to the house to eat And Mama hollered out the backdoor You all remember to wipe your feet And then she said I got some news this mornin from Choctaw Wridge Today Billie Joe Macallister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge Papa said to mama as he passed around the black eyed peas Billie Joe never had a lick of sense pass the biscuits please Theres five more acres in the lower forty I got to plow And Mama said it was a shame about Billie Joe anyhow It seems like nothing ever comes to no good upon Choctaw Wridge And now Billie Joe Macallister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge Brother said he recollected When he and Tom and Billie Joe Put a frog down my back at the Caroll County picture show And wasnt I talkin to him after church last Sunday night Ill have another piece of apple pie You know it dont seem right Why I just saw him at sawmill Yesterday upon Choctaw Wridge And now you tell me Billie Joes jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge Mama said to me Child, whats happened to your appetite Ive been cookin all morning And you havent touched a single bite That nice young preacher brother Tailor dropped by today Said hed be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh by the way He said he saw a girl That looked a lot like you upon Choctaw Wridge And she and Billie Joe was throwing something Off the Tallahatchie Bridge Now one years come and gone Since we heard the news about Billie Joe Brother married Becky Thompson And they bought a store in Tupelo There was a virus goin round Papa caught it and he died last spring And now Mama doesnt seem to want to do much of anything And me I spent a lot of time picking flowers upon Chotaw Wridge And dropped em into the muddy water Off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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