《Ode To Billie Joe》歌词

[00:05:04] Ode To Billie Joe - Leslie Satcher

[00:05:04] It was the third of June another sleepy dusty Delta day

[00:05:04] I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was a bailin' hay

[00:05:04] And at dinner time we stopped and walked out to the house to eat

[00:05:04] And mama hollered of the back door, "Y'all remember to wipe your feet"

[00:05:04] Then she said, "I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge

[00:05:04] Today Billie Joe Macallister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

[00:05:04] Papa said to Mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas

[00:05:04] "Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits, please

[00:05:04] There's five more acres in the lower forty that I've got to plow"

[00:05:04] And Mama said, "It was shame about Billy Joe, anyhow

[00:05:04] Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge

[00:05:04] And now Billy Joe Mac Allister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

[00:05:04] Mama said to me, "Child, what's happened to your appetite?

[00:05:04] I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't touched a single bite

[00:05:04] That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today"

[00:05:04] Said, he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way

[00:05:04] He said, he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge

[00:05:04] And she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge

[00:05:04] A year has come and gone since we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe

[00:05:04] Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo

[00:05:04] There was a virus going 'round, Papa caught it and he died last spring

[00:05:04] Now Mama doesn't seem to wanna do much of anything

[00:05:04] And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge

[00:05:04] And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge