This is one of my favorite songs and this version is much easier then the other version
here it is.
                      Doc

D7Twas (xx0212@1)the third of june another sleepy dusty delta day
D7I (xx0212@1)was out choppin cotton and my brother was balin' hay
G7And (320001@1)at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
D7And (xx0212@1)Mama hollered out the back door "y'all remember to wipe your feet
G7And (320001@1)then she said "I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge"
           D7 (xx0212@1)                    C7 (x32310@1)                  D7"Today (xx0212@1)Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

D7And (xx0212@1)Papa said to Mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas
D7"Well, (xx0212@1)Billy Joe never had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits, please"
G7"There's (320001@1)five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow"
D7And (xx0212@1)Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe, anyhow
G7Seems (320001@1)like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge
             D7 (xx0212@1)                    C7 (x32310@1)                  D7And (xx0212@1)now Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

D7And (xx0212@1)Brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Billie Joe
D7Put (xx0212@1)a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show
G7And (320001@1)wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night?
D7"I'll (xx0212@1)have another piece of apple pie, you know it don't seem right"
G7"I (320001@1)saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge"
                 D7 (xx0212@1)                   C7 (x32310@1)                 D7"And (xx0212@1)now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

D7And (xx0212@1)Mama said to me "Child, what's happened to your appetite?"
D7"I've (xx0212@1)been cookin' all morning and you haven't touched a single bite"
G7"That (320001@1)nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today"
D7"Said (xx0212@1)he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way"
G7"He (320001@1)said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge"
                D7 (xx0212@1)                         C7 (x32310@1)                 D7"And (xx0212@1)she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

D7A (xx0212@1)year has come 'n' gone since we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe
D7And (xx0212@1)Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo
G7There (320001@1)was a virus going 'round, Papa caught it and he died last Spring
D7And (xx0212@1)now Mama doesn't seem to wanna do much of anything
G7And (320001@1)me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge

              D7 (xx0212@1)                  C7 (x32310@1)                D7And (xx0212@1)drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge