Luyện nghe bài hát Ode to Billie Joe

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

And papa to mama, as he passed around the blackeyed peas
"Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense; pass the biscuits,
five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow"
And said it was shame about Billy Joe, anyhow
Seems like ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge
And now Billy Joe MacAllister's off the Tallahatchie Bridge

And brother he recollected when he, and Tom, and Billie Joe
Put a down my back at the Carroll County picture show
And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last night?
"I'll have another piece-a apple you know, it don't seem right
I saw him at the yesterday on Choctaw Ridge
And now ya tell me Billie jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

And mama said to me, "Child, what's 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 pleased to have 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 has come and gone since we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe
And brother married Becky Thompson; they bought a in Tupelo
There was a virus going 'round; papa caught it, and he died last
And now mama doesn't to want to do much of anything
And me - I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw
And drop them the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge