Luyện nghe bài hát Ode to Billie Joe (The Voice Performance)

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 walked back to the house to eat
And mama hollered out the back door, y'all, remember to wipe feet
And then she said, I got news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge
Today, Billy Joe MacAllister off the Tallahatchie Bridge

And papa said to mama, as he passed around the blackeyed
Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense; pass the biscuits,
There's five more acres in the lower forty got to plow
And mama said it was about Billy Joe, anyhow
Seems like nothin' ever to no good up on Choctaw Ridge
And now Billy Joe MacAllister's off the Tallahatchie Bridge

And brother he recollected 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 apple pie; you know, it don't seem right
I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Ridge
And now ya tell me Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

And mama said to me, child, what's to your appetite?
I've cookin' all morning, and you haven't touched a single bite
nice 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 that looked a lot you up on Choctaw Ridge
And she and Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge

A year has come and gone we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe
And married Becky Thompson; they bought a store in Tupelo
There was a virus going papa caught it, and he died last spring
And now mama doesn't seem to want to do much of
And me, I spend a lot of pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
And drop them the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge