5th Dimension - Ode To Billy Joe
It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty DeltaDayI was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hayAnd at dinner time we stopped and walked back to theHouse to eatAnd Mama hollered out the back door "y'all remember toWipe your feet"And then she said "I got some news this mornin' fromChoctaw Ridge""Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off theTallahatchie Bridge"And Papa said to Mama as he passed around the blackeyedPeas"Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense, pass theBiscuits, please""There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got toPlow"And Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe, anyhowSeems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on ChoctawRidgeAnd now Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped off theTallahatchie BridgeAnd Brother said he recollected when he and Tom andBillie JoePut a frog down my back at the Carroll County pictureShowAnd wasn't I talkin' to him after church last SundayNight?"I'll have another piece of apple pie, you know itDon't seem right""I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge""And now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped off theTallahatchie Bridge"And Mama said to me "Child, what's happened to yourAppetite?""I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't touchedA single bite""That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped byToday""Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, byThe way""He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up onChoctaw Ridge""And she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off theTallahatchie Bridge"A year has come 'n' gone since we heard the news 'boutBilly JoeAnd Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a storeIn TupeloThere was a virus going 'round, Papa caught it and heDied last SpringAnd now Mama doesn't seem to wanna do much of anythingAnd me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up onChoctaw RidgeAnd drop them into the muddy water off the TallahatchieBridge
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