Key: D major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
another sleepy dusty day out today
I was out chopping cotton
and my brother was bailing hay
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I stopped and walked by the house to eat
y 'all remember to wipe your feet
And then she said,
up from Choctaw Ridge
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
And Papa said to Mama
as they passed around the
black -eyed peas
Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense
and passed the biscuits, please
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There are five more acres
in the lower forty
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I've got to plough
about Billy Joe anyhow
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It seems like nothing
ever comes of no good
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up on Choctaw Ridge
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has jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
And brother said he recollected
when he and Tom and Billy Joe
Put a frog down my back
at the Garrow Canopy Show
after church last Sunday night?
you know it don't seem right
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up on Choctaw Ridge
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
And mama says to me, child,
and you haven't touched a single bite
Brother Taylor,
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dropped by today
dinner on Sunday
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He said he saw a girl that looked like you
up on Choctaw Ridge
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off the Tallahatchie Boulevard
Well, the years come and gone
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An d Brother Mary, Becky Thompson
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There was a virus goin' round,
Papa caught it and he died last spring
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An d now poor Mama
doesn't seem to wanna
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An d me, I spend my time
pickin' flowers
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Tossed him into the muddy water
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off the Tallahatchie Bridge
The day that village old McCallis
Outro 1
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