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Verse 1
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Delta day I was out chopping, cutting
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and my brother was bathing hay
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The end of dinnertime we stopped
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and walked back to the house to eat
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And mama hollered at the back door,
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you'll remember to wipe your feet
And then she said,
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Dm
I got some news this morning
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Today Billy Joe McAllister
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Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Papa said to Mama Izzy
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Passed around the black -eyed peas
Well Billy Joe never had a lick of sense
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Pass the biscuits please
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And there is five more acres
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And Mama said it was a shame
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about Billy Joe when he hung
comes to no good
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up in Choctaw Creeks
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And now Billy Joe McAllister
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dreamt of the Tallahatchie Bridge
Her brother said he recollected
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when he and Tom and Billy Joe
Put a frog down my back
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at the Carroll County Picture Show
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And wasn't I talking to him
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at the church last Sunday night?
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I have another piece of apple pie,
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you know, it just don't seem right
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Dm
I saw her at the sawmill yesterday,
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Now you tell me Billy Joes
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jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Mama said to me, child,
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what's happened to your appetite?
I've been cooking all morning
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and you haven't touched a single bite
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That nice young preacher,
Brother Taylor,
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stopped by today
have dinner on Sunday
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Oh, oh, by the way
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that looked a lot like you
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And she and Billy Joe were throwin'
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something off the teller had she prayed
A year has come and gone
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since we heard the news about Billy Joe
Her brother married Mackie Thompson,
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they bought a store 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
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want to do much of anything
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And me, I spend a lot of time
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picking flowers up and check the grid
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And drop them into the muddy water
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off the tallow hat she brings
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