Key: E minor
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Verse 1
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another sleepy,
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dusty day today
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I was out chopping cotton
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an d my brother was a
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-baiting hay
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At dinnertime we stopped
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and walked back to the
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house to eat
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And mama hollered out the back door,
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y 'all re member to wipe
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your feet
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Then she said, I got some news this
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mornin' from Chuck Torridge
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Today Billy Joe McAllister
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Papa said to mama as he passed around
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the black eyed peas
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Well, Billy Joe never had a liquor sense
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Pass the biscuits, please
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There's five more acres
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I've got to plow
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And mama said it was a shame about Billy Joe,
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anyhow
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Seems like nothing ever comes to no good
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up on Choctaw Ridge
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An d now Billy Jomo Callister
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Bridge
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Mama said to me, child,
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appetite?
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I've been cooking all morning
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a single bite
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That nice young preacher,
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dropped by today
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Said he'd be pleased to have supper
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on Sunday, oh by the way
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He said he saw a girl
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who looked a lot like you
on Choctaw Bridge
throwing something
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off the Tallahatchie Bridge
A year has come and gone
since we heard the news about
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Billy Joe
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Brother married Becky Thompson,
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they bought a store up in Tupelo
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There was a virus going round,
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Papa caught it,
and he died last spring
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And now Mama doesn't seem to want
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to do much of anything
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An d me, I spent my time picking
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flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
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off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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Billy Joel McAllister jumped off
the Tallahatchie Bridge
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