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

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

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

Mama to me "Child, what's happened to your appetite?"
"I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't a single bite"
"That young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today"
"Said he'd be to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way"
"He said he saw a that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge"
"And she and Billie Joe was throwing off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

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

And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie