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

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