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