Key: F major
Verse 1
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C#
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Abdim
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Em
It was the third of June,
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another sleepy, dusty Delta
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Day
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I was out choppin' cotton and my brother
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was balin' hay
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At dinner time we stopped
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and walked back to the house
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To eat
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And Mama hollered out the back door
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Wipe your feet"
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And then she said "I got some news
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this mornin' from
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Choctaw Ridge"
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"Today Billy Joe Mac
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Allister jumped off the
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Tallahatchie Bridge"
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Verse 2
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And Papa said to Mama as he passed
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Peas
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"Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense,
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Biscuits, please"
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"There's five more acres in
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Plow"
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And Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe,
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anyhow
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Seems like nothin' ever comes
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to no good up on Choctaw
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Ridge
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And now Billy Joe MacAllister,
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Tallahatchie Bridge
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Verse 3
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And Brother said he recollected
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when he and Tom and
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Billie Joe
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the Carroll County picture
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Show
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after Church last Sunday
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Night?
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"I'll have another piece of apple pie,
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you know it
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Don't seem right"
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"I saw him at the sawmill yesterday
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on Choctaw Ridge"
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"And now you tell me Billie Joe's
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jumped off the
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And
Verse 4
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Mama said to me "Child,
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Ap petite?"
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you haven't touched a
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Single bite"
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Today"
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"Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday,
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oh, by
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The way"
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"He said he saw a girl that looked
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a lot like you up on
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Choctaw Ridge"
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throwing somethin' off the
Interlude 1
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Em
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Adim
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A year has come 'n' gone since we heard
Verse 5
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Billy Joe
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bought a store in
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Tu pelo
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There was a virus going 'round,
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Papa caught it... died
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Last Spring
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And now Mama doesn't seem
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to wanna do much of anything
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And me,
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I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on
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Choctaw Ridge
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And drop them in the muddy
Verse 6
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water off the Tallahatchie
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Bridge, Yeah!
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Ooh, the Tallahatchie Bridge
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Oh, Muddy, Muddy, Water.
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Off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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Delta Day
Tallahatchie Bridge
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