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 we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
And mama hollered out the back door, "y'all, to wipe your feet!"
And she said, "I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge
Today, Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

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

And brother he recollected when he, and Tom, and Billie Joe
Put a down my back at the Carroll 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 me Billie 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, Brother Taylor, dropped by
Said he'd be 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 Billy Joe was throwing off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

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