Luyện nghe bài hát Ode To Billie Joe

(B. Gentry)

It was the of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day
I was out choppin' and my brother was balin' hay
And at dinner 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 some news this mornin' from Ridge
Today Billie Joe jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

Papa said to mama as he passed around the peas
"Well, Billie Joe never had a of sense, pass the biscuits, please"
"There's five more acres in the lower forty got to plow"
Mama said it was shame about Joe, anyhow
Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on 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 wasn't I talkin' to him church last Sunday night?
"I'll another piece of apple pie, you know it just don't seem 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 touched a single bite"
"That young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today"
"Said be pleased 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 we heard the news 'bout Billie Joe
Brother married Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo
There was a virus going 'round, papa caught it and he died Spring
And now doesn't 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