It was the third of June

Pat Burns · Post by **Pat Burns** » 4 Jun 2003 2:37 pm

...misspelled word? where?...

...Mama said to me, "Child, what's happened to your appetite"...

Janice Brooks · Post by **Janice Brooks** » 4 Jun 2003 2:59 pm

I've been cooking all morning and you haven't touched a single bite

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LARRY COLE · Post by **LARRY COLE** » 4 Jun 2003 4:17 pm

If'ns you's speel everthang wright then it aint no mo bluze. signed, Fishbone

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Pat Burns · Post by **Pat Burns** » 4 Jun 2003 5:42 pm

..that nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today...

CrowBear Schmitt · Post by **CrowBear Schmitt** » 4 Jun 2003 5:54 pm

to spread the good word and help us along the way

Ron Randall · Post by **Ron Randall** » 4 Jun 2003 8:52 pm

...and he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh by the way...

Michael Holland · Post by **Michael Holland** » 4 Jun 2003 8:58 pm

He said he saw a girl that looked alot like you up on Choctaw Ridge.

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 4 Jun 2003 10:15 pm

An there arose such a clatter
Twas Santa in Speedos
And old Cocoabutter...

chas smith R.I.P. · Post by **chas smith R.I.P.** » 4 Jun 2003 11:29 pm

An she an Billie Joe was throwin somethin off the Tallihatchie bridge.

Maybe it was Fido they found frozen from the freezer in the fridge.

Smiley Roberts · Post by **Smiley Roberts** » 4 Jun 2003 11:40 pm

I know this ain't gonna rhyme,but
you guys have,completely,lost your mind.

(that didn't,did it??)

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Martin Weenick · Post by **Martin Weenick** » 5 Jun 2003 1:56 am

If any of you all have time, could you please send me some of whatever it is you are smoking ???? Martin.

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CrowBear Schmitt · Post by **CrowBear Schmitt** » 5 Jun 2003 2:11 am

Hey Martin, it's just contact high

Pat Burns · Post by **Pat Burns** » 5 Jun 2003 4:59 am

...a year's come and gone since we heard the news about Billie Joe....

Larry Bell · Post by **Larry Bell** » 5 Jun 2003 5:56 am

ok, I'll bite
Brother married Becky Thompson and they bought a store in Tupelo.

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Pat Burns · Post by **Pat Burns** » 5 Jun 2003 6:06 am

..there was a fever goin' round, Papa caught it and he died last spring....

NOTE: This is where the timeline gets a little fuzzy...the narrator is telling the story sometime after the 3rd of June, which is in the spring. The news arrived on June 3rd, and Papa was definately there to comment on it on June 3rd. A year has come and gone since they heard the news, so it's now after June 3rd in the following year, yet Papa caught a fever and died last spring. I can only deduce that Papa must have caught the fever and died in the time period between June 3rd and June 21st last year (still springtime), right after they heard the news about Billy Joe.

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 5 Jun 2003 6:33 am

And I up and had a baby and we called it "little ding-a-ling".

nick allen · Post by **nick allen** » 5 Jun 2003 7:40 am

Of course, it could be argued that a year (approximately) has come and gone, and it may well now be July, or even August. In which case "last spring" could be considered as being the earlier part of the year in which the song is being sung, for example March or April following the sad June in which Billy Joe met his unfortunate demise (although I'm not sure the body was ever found? maybe he jumped off the bridge and swam to the Gulf of Mexico?).
I did consider using a variation of the "tab" feature to draw up a timeline of these events... but...
me, I never seem to do much of anything...

Pat Burns · Post by **Pat Burns** » 5 Jun 2003 8:47 am

...that's possible Nick, but it depends on the colloquial use in the vicinity of the Tallahatchie bridge...for example, up here if it was August, we would refer to the March/April/May/June preceding as "this spring" or "this past spring", we would not refer to it as "last spring". Furthermore, if the narrator is relating the story in July or August of the year following Billy Joe's "mysterious disappearance", it would actually be more than a year that's come and gone since we heard the news about Billy Joe, and wouldn't fit in with the inferred anniversary reminisce of sad events gone by....

...but what do I know..me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge...

Jody Carver · Post by **Jody Carver** » 5 Jun 2003 8:51 am

When I was a teenager there was a gal in my school by the name of June..she was born in June as well. She was well endowed" when we guys would see her we would all sing.

"June Is Busting Out All Over..

You think Dolly Parton had the biggest?

Guess again.

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 5 Jun 2003 2:49 pm

Which all makes me think of summer nights with Wanda Hicky.

Jon Light (deceased) · Post by **Jon Light (deceased)** » 5 Jun 2003 2:52 pm

Flick lives.

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 5 Jun 2003 3:13 pm

What was that other girl song; the one whose mother got her a new dress split way up to here, dabbed on some perfume and told her: Just be nice the gentlemen, Fancy and they'll be nice to you ?? Her "mama got sick and died; welfare took the baby and...."

Regards, Paul

Pat Burns · Post by **Pat Burns** » 5 Jun 2003 4:39 pm

...tossed it into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie bridge...

Jody Carver · Post by **Jody Carver** » 5 Jun 2003 5:56 pm

Yep Pat is back in form.

LARRY COLE · Post by **LARRY COLE** » 5 Jun 2003 6:40 pm

Nick and Pat, spring lasts till about June 20th.

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