Luyện nghe bài hát Ode To Billie Joe

(B. Gentry)

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

Papa said to mama as he passed around the peas
"Well, Billie Joe had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits, please"
"There's five acres in the lower forty I've got to plow"
Mama said it was about Billie Joe, anyhow
like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge
And now Billie Joe MacAllister off the Tallahatchie Bridge

And said he recollected when he and Tom and Billie Joe
Put a frog down my back at the Carroll picture show
And wasn't I talkin' to him church last Sunday night?
"I'll have another piece of apple pie, you know it just seem right"
"I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Ridge"
"And now you tell me Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

Mama said to me "Child, what's 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 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 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 bought a store in
was a virus going 'round, papa caught it and he died last Spring
And now mama doesn't seem to wanna do much of
And me, I spend a lot of pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge

And drop them into the muddy off the Tallahatchie Bridge