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Ode To Billy Joe
5th Dimension

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

And 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
And 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

And 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 of apple pie, you know it
Don't seem right
I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge
And now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the
Tallahatchie Bridge

And 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
And 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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