《Ode To Billy Joe》歌词

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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