Luyện nghe bài hát Ode to Billie Joe

It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty day
I was out cotton, and my brother was balin' hay
And at time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
And mama hollered out the back door, "y'all, remember to your feet!"
And then she said, "I got some news this from Choctaw Ridge
Today, Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

And papa said to mama, as he passed around the peas
"Well, Joe never had a lick of sense; pass the biscuits, please
There's five more acres in the forty I've got to plow"
And mama said it was shame Billy Joe, anyhow
Seems like nothin' ever comes to no up on Choctaw Ridge
And now Billy Joe MacAllister's off the Tallahatchie Bridge

And brother said he recollected he, and Tom, and Billie Joe
Put a frog down my back at the County picture show
And wasn't I to him after church last Sunday night?
"I'll have another piece-a apple pie; you know, it don't right
I saw him at the sawmill on Choctaw Ridge
And now ya tell me Billie jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

And mama said to me, "Child, what's happened to your
been cookin' all morning, and you haven't touched a single bite
That nice preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today
Said he'd be pleased to have on Sunday, oh, by the way
He said he saw a girl that a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge
And she and Billy Joe was throwing off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

A year has come and since we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe
And brother married Becky Thompson; bought a store in Tupelo
There was a virus going 'round; papa caught it, and he died spring
And now mama doesn't seem to to do much of anything
And me - I spend a lot of time pickin' up on Choctaw Ridge
And them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge