Ode To Billy Joe

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It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day  
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I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hay  
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And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat  
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And mama hollered out the back door, "Y'all remember to wipe your feet!"  
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And then she said, "I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge"  
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"Today Billy Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"  
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Mama said, "Billy Joe's gone, and I can't believe it"  
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"Don't know what he thought, why he did it, but he's gone"  
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And that was all she said, just another day in the Delta  
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But I can't forget him, no, I can't forget him  
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He was a boy in love with a girl from the wrong side of town  
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And he knew that it couldn't be, but he tried anyway  
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And now he's gone, oh, Billy Joe  
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