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Ode to Billy Joe - The Mick Lloyd Connection
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
Back walked 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
Tallahatchie the Bridge
And Papa said to Mama as
He passed around the blackeyed peas
'Well Billy Joe never had lick a 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