Karaoké Ode to Billie Joe Molly Johnson

It was the third of June another sleepy dusty

Delta day

I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hay

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 Billie Joe

MacAllister

Jumped off the

Tallahatchie Bridge

And Papa said to Mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas

Well Billie Joe never had a lick of sense

Pass the biscuits please

There's five more acres in the lower forty

I got to plow

And Mama said it was a shame about Billie Joe

Anyhow

Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge

And now Billie Joe

MacAllister

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 mornin'

You haven't touched a single bite

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 Billie Joe were throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge

A year has come 'n' gone since we heard the news 'bout Billie Joe

And Brother married

Becky Thompson bought a store in Tupelo

There was a virus going 'round

Papa caught it 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 in the muddy water

Off the Tallahatchie Bridge, yeah

Oh the Tallahatchie Bridge

Oh, muddy, muddy, muddy water

Off the Tallahatchie Bridge

Ooh, it was sleepy dusty, Delta Day

Hey

Mmh, mmh

Tallahatchie Bridge