Luyện nghe bài hát Ode to Billie Joe

It was the third of June, another sleepy, Delta day
I was out cotton, and my brother was balin' hay
And at dinner time we stopped and walked 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 this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge
Today, Billy Joe MacAllister off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

And papa to mama, as he passed around the blackeyed peas
"Well, Billy Joe had a lick of sense; pass the biscuits, please
There's more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow"
And mama said it was about 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 said he recollected when he, and Tom, and Billie Joe
Put a frog down my at the Carroll County picture show
And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last night?
"I'll have another piece-a pie; you know, it don't seem right
I saw him at the yesterday on Choctaw Ridge
And now ya tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Bridge"

And said to me, "Child, what's happened to your appetite?
I've been cookin' all morning, and you touched a single bite
That nice preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today
Said he'd be to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way
He said he saw a girl looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge
And she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the Bridge"

A year has come and since we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe
And brother married Becky Thompson; they a store in Tupelo
There was a virus going 'round; papa caught it, and he last spring
And now mama seem to want to do much of anything
And me - I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw
And them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge