《Ode to Billie Joe》歌词

[00:00:00] Ode To Billy Joe - Graham Blvd.

[00:00:08] It was the 3rd of June, another

[00:00:10] Sleepy dusty Delta day.

[00:00:16] I was out choppin' cotton and my

[00:00:19] Brother was bailin' hay.

[00:00:24] And at dinner time we stopped and

[00:00:27] Walked back to the house to eat.

[00:00:33] And mama hollered out the backdoor,

[00:00:35] "Y'all remember to wipe your feet."

[00:00:41] And then she said, "I got some news

[00:00:42] This mornin' from Choctaw Ridge.

[00:00:49] Today Billy Joe Macallister's jumped

[00:00:51] Off the Tallahatchee Bridge. "

[00:00:58] Papa said to mama as he passed

[00:01:00] Around the blackeyed peas,

[00:01:06] "Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense;

[00:01:09] Pass the biscuits please.

[00:01:14] There's 5 more acres in the lower

[00:01:16] 40 I got to plow. "

[00:01:22] And mama said it was a shame about

[00:01:24] Billy Joe anyhow.

[00:01:30] Seems like nothin' ever comes to no

[00:01:32] Good up on Choctaw Ridge,

[00:01:38] And now Billy Joe Macallister's

[00:01:40] Jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge.

[00:01:46] And brother said he recollected

[00:01:48] When he and Tom and Billy Joe

[00:01:54] Put a frog down my back at the

[00:01:57] Carroll County picture show.

[00:02:03] And wasn't I talkin' to him after

[00:02:05] Church last Sunday night?

[00:02:11] "I'll have another piece of apple pie;

[00:02:14] You know it don't seem right.

[00:02:19] I saw him at the sawmill yesterday

[00:02:22] On Choctaw Ridge

[00:02:27] And now you tell me Billy Joe's

[00:02:29] Jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge. "

[00:02:36] And mama said to me,

[00:02:37] "Child what's happened to your appetite?

[00:02:43] I been cookin' all morning and

[00:02:46] You haven't touched a single bite.

[00:02:52] That nice young preacher brother

[00:02:54] Taylor dropped by today,

[00:03:00] Said he'd be pleased to have dinner

[00:03:01] On Sunday; oh by the way,

[00:03:08] He said he saw a girl that looked a

[00:03:10] Lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge,

[00:03:16] And she and Billy Joe was throwin'

[00:03:18] Something off the Tallahatchee Bridge. "

[00:03:25] A year's come and gone since we

[00:03:27] Heard the news 'bout Billy Joe.

[00:03:33] 'N brother married Becky Thompson

[00:03:35] 'N' they bought a store in Tupelo.

[00:03:41] There was a virus goin' round, papa

[00:03:43] Caught it and he died last spring,

[00:03:49] And now mama doesn't seem to wanna

[00:03:51] Do much of anything.

[00:03:57] And me, I spend a lotta time pickin'

[00:04:00] Flowers up on Choctaw Ridge,

[00:04:05] And drop 'em into the muddy water

[00:04:08] Off the Tallahatchee bridge