Key: Bb major
Verse 1
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It was the 3rd of June,
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another sleepy, dusty day out today
Well I was out chopping cotton
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and my brother was baling hay
and walked back to the house
to have a bite to eat
hey remember to wipe your feet
I've got some news this morning
from on Choctaw Ridge
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Papa said to Mama
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as he passed around the
black -eyed bees
Well, Billy Joe never had to let the scent pass the biscuits,
please
in the lower forty I've got to plow
about Billy Joe anyhow
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Seems like nothing ever
comes to no good
upon a chopped down ridge
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Bridge
Mama said to me, child,
Brother Taylor,
dropped by today
on Sunday, by the way
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Said he saw a boy that looked a lot like you
up on Choctaw Ridge
were throwin' somethin'
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off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Years come and gone
Brother married Becky Thompson,
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bought a star and two pillows
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There was a virus going round
and round in of Cornish
and he died last spring
to do much of anything
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And me, I spend a lot of time
picking flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
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And drop them into the muddy water
Outro 1
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TunerE A D G B E
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