It was the 3rd of June...
 

Another sleepy, dusty, Delta day.

I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was baling hay.



(see if we can finish this before the day is out)

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

Had a meal of apple sauce and boiled pigs' feet.

***BBBZZZZZ****

Wrong!

The last correct response was
And mama hollered at the back door "Y'all remember to wipe your feet."



Continue, please.

And then she said "I got some news
this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge"

Today Billy Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge.

Billy Joe jumped cuz Bobby Sue had a willy and took the money and high tailed it back to Hommosassa Fla.

***BBBZZZZZ****

Wrong again!

The last correct response was

And Papa said to Mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas
"Well, Billy 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"


Continue again, please.

And Mama said it was shame about Billy 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


/me hunts for a gun to blow my brains out to remove this earworm... thanks warrreagl... :lol:

Brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Billy Joe,
Put a frog down my back at the Carrol County picture show,


...as an afterthought, didn't bobbie gentry die a few years back?

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"


....Officially, Bobbie Gentry is still alive, living a quiet life of peaceful obscurity.

And Mama said to me "Child, what's happened to your appetite?"
"I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't touched a single bite"
"That 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 Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge"


(Until I saw the movie, a few years ago, I had a completely different thought as to what was they threw over the bridge... )

This thread does not belong in Nonsense and shouldn't have been moved here. I put it in Playground because the desired responses to each post are the next lines in the correct lyrics to the song. It's a game, not nonsense. A stupid song that probably only the old farts around here would know.

But it doesn't matter anyway. Since the opening lyric is "It was the third of June" then the game has to be finished before midnight. It's already dead.

Here's the finale:

A year has come 'n' gone since we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe
And Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo
There was a virus going 'round, Papa caught it and he 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 into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge


Oh well.....so much for fun. Close it and lock it.

**sigh**

My apologies to Maleficent for the snippy post and snippy PM about this thread. If you'd imagined an old guy yelling, "Hey you damn kids, get off my lawn," it would have sounded exactly right.

Stupid of me.

Luckily, I know of no other songs or poems that begin with "It was the fourth of June...."