Luyện nghe bài hát Ode To Billie Joe

(B. Gentry)

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 we walked back to the to eat
And mama at the back door "y'all remember to wipe your feet"
And then she said she got some news this mornin' from Choctaw
Today Billie Joe MacAllister jumped off the Bridge

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

And said 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 piece of apple pie, you know it just don't right"
"I saw him at the sawmill on Choctaw Ridge"
"And now you tell me Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

Mama said to me "Child, happened to your appetite?"
"I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't touched a bite"
"That nice preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today"
"Said he'd be pleased to 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 Billie Joe was throwing off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

A year has come 'n' gone since we heard the 'bout Billie Joe
Brother married Becky Thompson, they a store in Tupelo
was a virus going 'round, papa caught it and he died last Spring
And now mama seem to wanna do much of anything
And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' up on Choctaw Ridge

And drop them the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge