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  • Words and Music by Bobbie Gentry
  • It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day
  • I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hay
  • And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
  • And Mama hollered out the back door "y'all remember to wipe your feet"
  • And then she said "I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge"
  • "Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"
  • 'n' Papa said to Mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas
  • "Well Billy Joe never had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits, please"
  • "There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow"
  • 'n' Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe, anyhow
  • Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge
  • And now Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
  • 'n' Brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Billie Joe
  • Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show
  • And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night?
  • "I'll have another piece-a apple pie, you know it don't seem right"
  • "I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge"
  • "And now ya tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"
  • 'n' Mama said to me "Child, what's happened to your appetite?"
  • "I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't touched a single bite"
  • "That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today"
  • "Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way"
  • "He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge"
  • "And she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge"
  • A year has come 'n' gone since we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe
  • 'n' Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo
  • There was a virus going 'round, Papa caught it and he died last Spring
  • And now Mama doesn't seem to wanna do much of anything
  • And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
  • And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge

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