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 hollered out the back door, "y'all, remember to your feet!"
And then she said, "I got some news this from Choctaw Ridge
Today, Billy Joe MacAllister off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

And said to mama, as he passed around the blackeyed peas
"Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of pass the biscuits, please
There's five more acres in the lower I've got to plow"
And mama said it was shame about Billy Joe,
Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on 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 I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night?
"I'll have another apple pie; you know, it don't seem right
I saw him at the yesterday on Choctaw Ridge
And now ya tell me Billie Joe's 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 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 that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge
And she and Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

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