Luyện nghe bài hát Ode to Billie Joe

It was the third of June, another sleepy, Delta day
I was out cotton, and my brother was balin' hay
And at dinner time we stopped and back to the house to eat
And mama hollered out the door, "y'all, remember to wipe your feet!"
And then she said, "I got some news this mornin' from Ridge
Today, Billy Joe MacAllister off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

And papa said to mama, as he passed around the blackeyed
"Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense; the biscuits, please
five more acres in the lower forty 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 Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

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

And mama said to me, "Child, what's happened to appetite?
I've been cookin' all morning, and you touched a single bite
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 girl looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge
And she and Billy Joe was somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

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