Luyện nghe bài hát Ode to Billie Joe

It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty day
I was out choppin' cotton, and my brother was 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' Choctaw Ridge
Today, Billy Joe jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

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

And brother he recollected when he, and Tom, and Billie Joe
Put a frog down my back at the County 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 tell me Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

And mama said to me, "Child, what's happened to appetite?
I've been cookin' all morning, and you haven't touched a single
That nice young preacher, Taylor, dropped by today
Said he'd be pleased to dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way
He said he saw a girl that looked a lot you up on Choctaw Ridge
And she and Billy Joe was somethin' 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 going 'round; 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' up on Choctaw Ridge
And drop them into the muddy water off the Bridge