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Ode To Billie Joe
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Diana Ross
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It was the third of June
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Another sleepy, dusty Delta day
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I was out choppin' cotton
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And my brother was balin' hay
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And at dinner time we stopped
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And we walked back to the house to eat
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And mama hollered at the back door
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"Y'all remember to wipe your feet"
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And then she said she got some news
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This mornin' from Choctaw Ridge
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Today Billie Joe MacAllister
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Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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Papa said to mama as he passed
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Around the Black Eyed Peas
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"Well, Billie Joe never had a lick of sense
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Pass the biscuits, please"
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"There's five more acres
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In the lower forty I've got to plow"
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Mama said it was shame
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About Billie Joe, anyhow
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Seems like nothin' ever comes
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To no good up on Choctaw Ridge
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And now Billie Joe MacAllister
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Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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And brother said he recollected
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When he and Tom and Billie Joe
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Put a frog down my back
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At the Carroll County picture show
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And wasn't I talkin' to him
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After church last Sunday night?
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"I'll have another piece of apple pie
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You know it just don't seem right"
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"I saw him at the sawmill
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Yesterday on Choctaw Ridge"
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"And now you tell me Billie Joe's
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Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"
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Mama said to me
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"Child, what's happened to your appetite?"
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"I've been cookin' all morning
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And you haven't touched a single bite"
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"That nice young preacher
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Brother Taylor, dropped by today"
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"Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday
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Oh, by the way"
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He said, "He saw a girl
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That looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge"
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"And she and Billie Joe
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Was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge"
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A year has come ' gone
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Since we heard the news 'bout Billie Joe
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Brother married Becky 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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Wanna do much of anything
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And me, I spend a lot of time
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Pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
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And drop them into the muddy water
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Off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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