Correction Lyrics Ode to Billy Joe by Vince Gill

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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"

Papa said to mama, as he passed around the blackeyed peas
"Billie 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 Billie 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

Brother said he recollected when he, and Tom, and Billie Joe
Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show
Wasn't I talking 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, up on Choctaw Ridge
And now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

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