Luyện nghe bài hát Ode To Billie Joe

(B. Gentry)

It was the third of June, sleepy, dusty Delta day
I was out choppin' cotton and my was balin' hay
And at time we stopped and we walked back to the house to eat
And mama hollered at the back door "y'all remember to wipe feet"
And then she said she got news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge
Billie 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 more acres in the lower forty got to plow"
said it was shame about Billie Joe, anyhow
Seems like nothin' ever comes to no up on Choctaw Ridge
And now Billie Joe jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

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

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

A year has come 'n' gone since we heard the news Billie Joe
Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a in Tupelo
was a virus going 'round, papa caught it and he died last Spring
And now mama doesn't seem to do much of anything
And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Ridge

And drop them into the muddy water off the Bridge