🎵 Luyện Nghe Bài Hát: Ode To Billy Joe - Roch Voisine

 Ode To Billy 
 
 It was the third of June, another sleepy dusty  day.
 I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' 
 And at dinner  we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
 And mama hollered at the back door  remember to wipe your feet".
 And then she said "I got some news this mornin'  Choctaw Ridge
 Today Billie Joe McAllister jumped off  Tallahatchie Bridge".
 
 Papa said to  as he passed around the blackeyed peas
  Billie Joe never had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits please.
 There are five more acres in the lower forty I've got  plow"
 And mama said it  a shame about Billie Joe anyhow.
 "Seems like nothin' ever comes up to no good on Choctaw 
 And now Billie Joe McAllister's jumped  the Tallahatchie Bridge".
 
 Brother said he recollected when he  Tom and Billie Joe
 Put a frog down my back at  Carroll County Picture Show.
 And wasn't I talkin' to him after  last Sunday night ?
 "I'll have another piece of apple  you know it don't seem right.
 I saw him at the  yesterday on Choctaw Ridge
 And now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the  Bridge".
 
 Mama said to me "Child,  happened to your appetite ?
 I've been cooking all morning and you haven't touched  single bite.
 That  young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today
 Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday. Oh,  the way
 He said he saw a girl that  a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge
 And she and Billie Joe were throwin' somethin'  the Tallatchie Bridge".
 
 A year has come and gone since we heard the news  Billie Joe.
 Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a  in Tupelo.
 There was a  goin' round, papa caught it and he died last spring
 And now, mama doesn't seem to wanna do  of anything.
 And me, I  a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
 And drop them into the muddy water of the  Bridge.