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 It was the third of June,

 Another sleepy, dusty,

 I was out choppin' cotton

 And my brother was bailin' hay

 And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat

 And Mama hollered at the back door,

 "Y'all remember to wipe your feet."

 Then she said,

"I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge

 Today Billy Joe McAllister

 Jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge."