Ode To Billy Joe 歌詞
Ode To Billy Joe - Jill Johnson/Frida Hyvonen
Composed by：The Residents
It was the third of June another sleepy dusty Delta day
I was out choppin' cotton
And my brother was balin' hay
And at dinner time we stopped
And walked back to the house to eat
And mama hollered out the back door
Y'all remember to wipe your feet
And then she said
I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge
Today Billie Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
And papa said to mama
As he passed around the blackeyed peas
Well Billie Joe never had a lick of sense
Pass the biscuits please
There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow
And mama said it was shame about Billie Joe anyhow
Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge
And now Billie Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
And brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Billie Joe
Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show
And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night
I'll have another piece-a apple pie you know
It don't seem right
I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge
And now ya tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
And mama said to me child
What's happened to your appetite
I've been cookin' all morning
And you haven't touched a single bite
That nice young preacher
Brother Taylor dropped by today
Said he'd be pleased to have dinner
On Sunday oh by the way
He said he saw a girl
That looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge
And she and Billie Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge
A year has come and gone since
We heard the news 'bout Billie Joe
And brother married Becky Thompson
They bought a store in Tupelo
There was a virus going 'round
Papa caught it and he died last spring
And now mama doesn't seem to want to do much of anything
And me I spend a lot of time
Pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Tallahatchie Bridge
Tallahatchie Bridge