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 Ode To  Joe
 
 It was the  of June, another sleepy dusty Delta day.
 I was  choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hay.
 And at dinner  we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
 And mama hollered at the back door "Y'all remember  wipe your feet".
 And then she said "I got some news  mornin' from Choctaw Ridge
  Billie Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge".
 
 Papa said to mama as he passed around the  peas
 "Well Billie Joe never had a lick  sense, pass the biscuits please.
 There are five more acres in the lower forty I've got  plow"
 And mama said it was a shame about Billie  anyhow.
 "Seems  nothin' ever comes up to no good on Choctaw Ridge
 And now Billie Joe McAllister's  off the Tallahatchie Bridge".
 
 Brother said he recollected when  and Tom and Billie Joe
 Put  frog down my back at the Carroll County Picture Show.
  wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night ?
 "I'll have another piece of apple pie, you know it don't seem 
 I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on  Ridge
 And now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped off  Tallahatchie Bridge".
 
 Mama said to me "Child, what's happened  your appetite ?
 I've been cooking all morning and you  touched a single bite.
  nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today
 Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday. Oh, by the 
 He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like  up on Choctaw Ridge
 And she and Billie Joe were throwin' somethin'  the Tallatchie Bridge".
 
 A  has come and gone since we heard the news 'bout Billie Joe.
 Brother married Becky Thompson,  bought a store in Tupelo.
 There was  virus goin' round, papa caught it and he died last spring
 And now, mama doesn't seem to  do much of anything.
 And me, I spent a lot of time pickin' flowers  on Choctaw Ridge
 And drop them into the muddy  of the Tallahatchie Bridge.