《Ode to Billie Joe - A Tribute to Bobby Gentry》歌词

[00:00:00] Ode To Billy Joe - The Sheltons

[00:00:09] It was the third of June

[00:00:11] Another sleepy dusty delta day

[00:00:17] I was out choppin' cotton

[00:00:19] And my brother was balin' hay

[00:00:25] And at dinner time we stopped

[00:00:26] And walked back to the house to eat

[00:00:32] And Mama hollered out the back door

[00:00:34] "Y'all remember to wipe your feet"

[00:00:40] Then she said

[00:00:41] "I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge

[00:00:48] Today Billie Joe McAllister

[00:00:50] Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

[00:00:56] Papa said to Mama as he passed

[00:00:59] Around the black-eyed peas

[00:01:04] "Well Billie Joe never had a lick o' sense

[00:01:07] Pass the biscuits please

[00:01:12] There's five more acres

[00:01:13] In the lower forty I've got to plow"

[00:01:19] And Mama said it was a shame

[00:01:21] About Billie Joe anyhow

[00:01:27] Seems like nothin' ever comes to

[00:01:29] No good up on Choctaw Ridge

[00:01:35] And now Billie Joe McAllister's

[00:01:37] Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

[00:01:43] Brother said he recollected

[00:01:44] When he and Tom and Billie Joe

[00:01:51] Put a frog down my back

[00:01:52] At the Carroll County picture show

[00:01:59] And wasn't I talkin' to him

[00:02:00] After church last Sunday night

[00:02:06] I'll have another piece of apple pie

[00:02:09] You know it don't seem right

[00:02:14] I saw him at the sawmill

[00:02:16] Yesterday on Choctaw Ridge

[00:02:21] And now you tell me Billie Joe's

[00:02:23] Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

[00:02:30] Mama said to me

[00:02:31] "Child what's happened to your appetite

[00:02:37] I been cookin' all mornin'

[00:02:40] And you haven't touched single bite

[00:02:46] That nice young preacher

[00:02:47] Brother Taylor dropped by today

[00:02:53] Said he'd be pleased to have dinner

[00:02:55] On Sunday oh by the way

[00:03:01] He said he saw a girl

[00:03:03] That looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge

[00:03:09] And she and Billie Joe was throwin'

[00:03:11] Somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

[00:03:17] A year has come and gone

[00:03:18] Since I heard the news 'bout Billie Joe

[00:03:25] Brother married Becky Thompson

[00:03:26] They bought a store in Tupelo

[00:03:32] There was a virus goin' round

[00:03:34] Papa caught it and he died last spring

[00:03:40] And now Mama doesn't seem

[00:03:42] To want to do much of anything

[00:03:48] And me I spend a lot of time

[00:03:50] Picking flowers up on Choctaw Ridge

[00:03:56] And drop them into the muddy water

[00:03:58] Off the Tallahatchie Bridge