It was the third of June another sleepy, dusty, Delta day,

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 out the back door,"Y'all remember to wipe your feet."

And then she said "i got news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge.

Today Billy Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahachee bridge.