Luyện nghe bài hát Ode to Billie Joe

It was the third of June, another sleepy, 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 back door "y'all to wipe your feet"
And she said "I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge"
"Today Billy Joe MacAllister off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

And Papa to Mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas
"Well, Billy Joe had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits, please"
"There's more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow"
And Mama it was shame about Billy Joe, anyhow
Seems like ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge
And now Billy Joe jumped off the Tallahatchie 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 talkin' to him church last Sunday night?
"I'll have 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 Joe's off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

And Mama said to me "Child, what's happened to appetite?"
"I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't a single bite"
"That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, 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 Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

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

And drop them the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge