《Ode to Billie Joe》歌词

[00:00:00] Ode to Billie Joe - Stella Parton

[00:00:01] Written by：Bobbie Gentry

[00:00:07] It was the third of June another sleepy dusty Delta day

[00:00:15] I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hay

[00:00:23] And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat

[00:00:32] And mama hollered out the back door y'all remember to wipe your feet

[00:00:40] And then she said I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge

[00:00:48] Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

[00:00:56] And papa said to mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas

[00:01:04] Well Billie Joe never had a lick of sense pass the biscuits please

[00:01:12] There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow

[00:01:21] And mama said it was shame about Billie Joe anyhow

[00:01:29] Seems like nothin' ever comes to

[00:01:31] No good up on Choctaw Ridge

[00:01:37] And now Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

[00:01:45] And brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Billie Joe

[00:01:53] Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show

[00:02:01] And wasn't I talking to him after church last Sunday night

[00:02:09] I'll have another piece-a apple pie you know it don't seem right

[00:02:18] I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge

[00:02:26] And now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

[00:02:34] And mama said to me Child what's happened to your appetite

[00:02:42] I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't touched a single bite

[00:02:51] That nice young preacher Brother Taylor he stop by today

[00:02:58] Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday oh by the way

[00:03:06] He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge

[00:03:14] And she and Billie Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge

[00:03:23] A year has come and gone since we heard the news 'bout Billie Joe

[00:03:31] And brother married Becky Thompson they bought a store in Tupelo

[00:03:39] There was a virus going 'round papa caught it and he died last spring

[00:03:47] And now mama doesn't seem to want to do much of anything

[00:03:55] And me I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge

[00:04:03] And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge