Luyện nghe bài hát Ode to Billie Joe

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

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

And brother he recollected when he, and Tom, and Billie Joe
Put a frog my back at the Carroll County picture show
And wasn't I talkin' to him church last Sunday night?
"I'll have another piece-a apple pie; you know, it don't seem
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 been cookin' all morning, and you haven't touched a single
That nice young preacher, Taylor, dropped by today
he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way
He said he saw a girl that a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge
And she and Billy Joe was throwing off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

A year has come and gone we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe
And brother married Becky Thompson; bought a store in Tupelo
There was a virus 'round; papa caught it, and he died last spring
And now mama doesn't seem to want to do much of
And me - I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw
And drop into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge