歌：BOBBIE GENTRY

作詞：B.Gentry

作曲：B.Gentry

発売：2023-02-16 00:47:19

It was a third of June
Another sleepy dust Delta day
I was out hocppin' cotton and my brother was bailing hay
And at dinner time we stopped
And walked back to the house to eat
And Mama hollered at the back door
"Yo, remember to wipe your feet"
And then she said
"I got some news this mornin' from Calk Toridge.
Today Billy Joe Machalas jumped off from Talahatchy bridge."

Papa said to Mama as he passed around the black-eyed peas
"Well Billy Joe never had lick a sense,
Pass the biscuits, please.
There's 5 more acres in the lower 40 I got to plow."
And Mama said
"It was a shame about Billie Joe anyhow"
Seems like nothing ever comes to no good up on Chalk Toridge
And now Billy Joe Machalas jumped off from Talahatchy bridge

Brother said the recollected when he and Tom and Billy Joe
Put a frog down my back
At the Cattle Country picture show
"And 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 ringht.
I saw him at the saw mill yesterday on Chalk Toridge.
And now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped off
From Talahatchy bridge."

Mama said to me "Child, what's happend to your appetite?
I've been cookin' all mornin'
And you haven't touched a single bite.
That nice young preacher brother Tailor 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 Chalk Toridge.
And she and Billy Joe was throwin' something
Off the Talahatchy bridge."

A year has come and gone
Since we heard the news about Billy Joe
Brother married Becky Thompson
They brought a store
In Toppellow

There was a virus goin' around
Papa caught it and he died last spring
And now Mama doesn't seem to want to do much a anything
And me I spend a lot of time picking flowers up
On Chalk Tridge
And drop them into the muddy water off the Talahatchy bridge