Key: Db major
Verse 1
another sleepy, dusty day out today
I was out chopping cotton
and my brother was baling hay
and walked back to the house to eat
y 'all remember to wipe your feet
and then she said
from Choctaw Ridge today
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Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
And Papa said to Mama
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As he passed around the Black Eyed Peas
Well Billy Joel never had a lick of sense
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Pass the biscuits please
in the lower forty
I got to plow
About Billy Joe anyhow
Up there on Choctaw Ridge
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Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
And brother said he recollected when he
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And Tom and Billy Joe
Put a frog down my back
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At the Carroll County Picture Show
At the church last Sunday night
You know it don't seem right
On Choctaw Ridge
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Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
And Mama said to me, child,
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What happened to your appetite?
I've been cooking all morning
Brother Taylor dropped by today
Oh, by the way
that looks a lot like you
Up on Choptown Ridge
blowing something
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And on that Tallahatchie Bridge
A year has come and gone
And brother married Becca Thompson
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They bought a store In Tupelo
Papa caught it
And he died last spring
want to do much of anything
picking flowers
up there on Choctaw Ridge
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off the Tallahatchie Bridge
You
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