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 time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
And Mama hollered out the door "y'all remember to wipe your feet"
And then she said "I got some news mornin' from Choctaw Ridge"
"Today Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

And Papa said to Mama as he passed the blackeyed peas
"Well, Billy Joe had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits, please"
"There's five more acres in the lower I've got to plow"
And Mama said it was shame about Joe, anyhow
Seems like nothin' comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge
And now Billy Joe MacAllister's off the Tallahatchie Bridge

And Brother said he recollected 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 last 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 Mama said to me "Child, happened to your appetite?"
"I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't a single bite"
"That nice preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today"
"Said he'd be 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 we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe
And married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo
was a virus going 'round, Papa caught it and he died last Spring
And now Mama seem to wanna do much of anything
And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw

And drop them into the water off the Tallahatchie Bridge