Luyện nghe bài hát Ode to Billie Joe

It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty day
I was out choppin' and my brother was balin' hay
And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the to eat
And Mama hollered out the back door "y'all remember to your feet"
And then she said "I got some news this mornin' from Ridge"
"Today Billy Joe jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

And Papa to Mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas
"Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense, the biscuits, please"
"There's five acres in the lower forty I've got to plow"
And Mama said it was shame Billy Joe, anyhow
Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Ridge
And now Billy Joe jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

And Brother said he recollected he and Tom and Billie Joe
Put a frog down my back at the Carroll picture show
And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last night?
"I'll have another piece of apple pie, you know it seem right"
"I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Ridge"
"And now you tell me Billie jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

And Mama said to me "Child, what's happened to appetite?"
"I've been all morning and you haven't touched a single bite"
"That nice young preacher, Taylor, dropped by today"
"Said he'd be to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way"
"He said he saw a that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge"
"And she and Billy Joe was throwing off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

A year has come 'n' gone we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe
And married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo
There was a virus going 'round, Papa caught it and he died Spring
And now Mama doesn't to wanna do much of anything
And me, I a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge

And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie