Luyện nghe bài hát Ode To Billie Joe

(B. Gentry)

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

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

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 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 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 a single bite"
"That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, by today"
"Said he'd be to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way"
"He said he saw a girl that a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge"
"And she and Billie Joe was somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

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

And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie