Luyện nghe bài hát Ode To Billie Joe

(B. Gentry)

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

And brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Joe
Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture
And wasn't I to him after 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 yesterday on 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 cookin' all morning and you haven't touched a single bite"
"That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, by today"
"Said be pleased 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 come 'n' gone since we heard the news Billie Joe
Brother married Becky Thompson, they a store in Tupelo
There was a virus going 'round, papa caught it and he last Spring
And now mama doesn't seem to do much of anything
And me, I spend a lot of time flowers up on Choctaw Ridge

And drop them into the muddy water off the Bridge