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 dinner time we stopped and walked back to the 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 Ridge
Today, Billy Joe 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; the biscuits, please
There's more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow"
And mama said it was about Billy Joe, anyhow
Seems like nothin' comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge
And now Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie

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

And mama said to me, "Child, what's happened to 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 that looked a lot like you up on Ridge
And she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the Bridge"

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