Key: D major
Verse 1
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Delta day, I was out chopping cotton
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and my brother was bailing hay.
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And at dinnertime we stopped and walked out to the house to eat,
the back door,
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y 'all remember to wipe your feet.
I got some news this morning from
Choctaw
Ridge.
Today
Billy
Tallahatchie
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Bridge.
Mama said to
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Em
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Mama, as he passed around the
Black
Eye
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Beach,
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Well,
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Billy
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pass the biscuits please.
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There's five more acres in the lower
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40 that I've got to plow.
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An d mama said it was
Billy
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Joe anyhow.
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Seems like nothing ever comes
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to no good up on
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Chalker
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Reef
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An d our bellies don't make
Mama said to me, child,
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what's happened to your appetite?
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I've been cooking all morning and you
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haven't touched a single bite.
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That nice young preacher,
Brother
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Taylor, dropped by today,
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said he'd be pleased to
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He said he saw a girl that looked a lot
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like you up on top of the ridge
Betty
Tallahassee
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Bridge
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Em
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Yeah, it's come and gone since
Billy
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Joel.
Brother
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Mary,
Becky
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Thompson, they bought a store in
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There was a virus going round.
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Papa caught it and he died last spring
Now
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Mama doesn't seem to
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wanna do much of anything
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And me,
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I spend a lot of time
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Pickin' flowers up on
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Tower
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Ridge
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An d drop them into the muddy water
Tallahatchie
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Bridge
you
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