Luyện nghe bài hát Ode to Billie Joe

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

And Papa said to Mama as he passed around the peas
"Well, Billy Joe never had a of sense, pass the biscuits, please"
"There's five more acres in the lower forty got to plow"
And Mama said it was about Billy Joe, anyhow
Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Ridge
And now Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped off the 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 Sunday night?
"I'll another piece of apple pie, you know it don't seem right"
"I saw him at the yesterday on Choctaw Ridge"
"And now you tell me Billie jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

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

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

And drop into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge