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

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