Luyện nghe bài hát Ode to Billie Joe

It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty day
I was out cotton, and my brother was balin' hay
And at dinner time we and walked back 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' Choctaw Ridge
Today, Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Bridge"

And papa said to mama, as he passed around the blackeyed
"Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of pass the biscuits, please
There's five more acres in the lower forty got to plow"
And mama said it was shame about Joe, anyhow
Seems like nothin' ever comes to no 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 down my back at the Carroll County show
And wasn't I talkin' to him church last Sunday night?
"I'll have another apple pie; you know, it don't seem right
I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Ridge
And now ya me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

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

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