Luyện nghe bài hát Ode to Billie Joe

It was the of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day
I was out choppin' cotton and my 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 said to as he passed around the blackeyed peas
"Well, Billy Joe had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits, please"
"There's five more acres in the lower forty got to plow"
And said it was shame about Billy Joe, anyhow
Seems like nothin' ever to no good up on Choctaw Ridge
And now Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie

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

And Mama said to me "Child, happened to your appetite?"
"I've cookin' 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 he saw a girl 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 since we heard the news 'bout Joe
And Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in
There was a virus going 'round, caught it and he died last Spring
And now Mama doesn't seem to wanna do of anything
And me, I spend a lot of pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge

And drop them into the water off the Tallahatchie Bridge