《Ode To Billie Joe》歌词

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It was the third of June another sleepy dusty Delta day[00:00:09]

I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hay[00:00:17]

And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat[00:00:26]

And Mama hollered out the back door "y'all remember to wipe your feet[00:00:34]

And then she said "I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge[00:00:43]

"Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge[00:00:51]

And Papa said to Mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas[00:01:00]

"Well Billy Joe never had a lick of sense pass the biscuits please[00:01:08]

"There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow[00:01:17]

And Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe anyhow[00:01:25]

Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge[00:01:33]

And now Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge[00:01:42]

And Brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Billie Joe[00:01:51]

Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show[00:01:59]

And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night[00:02:07]

"I'll have another piece of apple pie you know it don't seem right[00:02:16]

"I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge[00:02:24]

"And now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge[00:02:32]

And Mama said to me "Child what's happened to your appetite[00:02:42]

"I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't touched a single bite[00:02:49]

"That nice young preacher Brother Taylor dropped by today[00:02:58]

"Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday oh by the way[00:03:06]

"He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge[00:03:14]

"And she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge[00:03:22]

A year has come 'n' gone since we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe[00:03:31]

And Brother married Becky Thompson they bought a store in Tupelo[00:03:40]

There was a virus going 'round Papa caught it and he died last Spring[00:03:47]

And now Mama doesn't seem to wanna do much of anything[00:03:56]

And me I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge[00:04:04]

And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge[00:04:12]

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