Luyện nghe bài hát Ode to Billie Joe

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

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

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

And Mama to me "Child, what's happened to your appetite?"
"I've been cookin' all morning and you touched a single bite"
"That nice young preacher, Taylor, dropped by today"
"Said be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way"
"He said he saw a girl 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 'bout Billy Joe
And Brother married Becky Thompson, they a store in Tupelo
There was a virus going 'round, Papa caught it and he died last
And now Mama doesn't seem to wanna do much of
And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Ridge

And them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge