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 and we walked back to the house to eat
And mama hollered at the 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 Bridge

Papa 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 forty I've got to plow"
said it was shame about Billie Joe, anyhow
Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Ridge
And now Joe MacAllister 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 picture show
And wasn't I talkin' to him after last Sunday night?
"I'll have another piece of pie, you know it just don't seem right"
"I saw him at the sawmill on Choctaw Ridge"
"And now you me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

Mama said to me "Child, happened to your appetite?"
"I've been all morning and you haven't touched a single bite"
"That nice preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today"
"Said he'd be pleased to 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 somethin' off the Bridge"

A year has come 'n' gone 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 died Spring
And now mama doesn't seem to wanna do of anything
And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' up on Choctaw Ridge

And them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge