ฟังเพลงOde To Billy Joe

Ode To Billy Joe - The Sheltons

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"

Then she said

"I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge

Today Billie Joe McAllister

Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

Papa said to Mama as he passed

Around the black-eyed peas

"Well Billie Joe never had a lick o' sense

Pass the biscuits please

There's five more acres

In the lower forty I've got to plow"

And Mama said it was a shame

About Billie Joe anyhow

Seems like nothin' ever comes to

No good up on Choctaw Ridge

And now Billie Joe McAllister's

Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

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 of apple pie

You know it don't seem right

I saw him at the sawmill

Yesterday on Choctaw Ridge

And now you tell me Billie Joe's

Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

Mama said to me

"Child what's happened to your appetite

I been cookin' all mornin'

And you haven't touched 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 throwin'

Somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

A year has come and gone

Since I heard the news 'bout Billie Joe

Brother married Becky Thompson

They bought a store in Tupelo

There was a virus goin' 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

Picking flowers up on Choctaw Ridge

And drop them into the muddy water

Off the Tallahatchie Bridge