Ode to Billie Joe (In the Style of Bobbie Gentry) (Instrumental Only) 歌詞
Ode to Billie Joe (Instrumental Only|In the Style of Bobbie Gentry|純音樂) - ProSource Karaoke
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 Billy Joe
MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"
'N' Papa said to Mama as
He passed around the blackeyed peas
"Well Billy 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"
'N' Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe anyhow
Seems like nothin' ever
Comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge
And now Billy Joe MacAllister's
Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
'N' 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"
'N' 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 Billy Joe was throwing
Somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge"
A year has come 'n' gone since
We heard the news 'bout Billy Joe
'N' 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
Wanna 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