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 brother was hay
And at dinner time we stopped and walked to the house to eat
And mama out the back door, "y'all, remember to wipe your feet!"
And then she said, "I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw
Today, Billy Joe jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

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

And said he recollected when he, and Tom, and Billie Joe
Put a frog down my back at the Carroll picture show
And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday
"I'll have another piece-a apple pie; you know, it seem right
I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw
And now ya me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

And mama said to me, "Child, what's to your appetite?
I've been all morning, and you haven't touched a single bite
That young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today
Said be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way
He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw
And she and Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

A year has come and gone since we heard the news 'bout Joe
And brother married Becky 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 to do much of anything
And me - I spend a lot of pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
And drop them into the muddy water off the Bridge