[ar:Bobbie Gentry]
[ti:Ode To Billie Joe]
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[00:00.73]Ode to Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry (芭比·珍翠)
[00:02.30]Written by：Bobbie Gentry
[00:08.36]It was the third of june another sleepy dusty delta
[00:12.64]Day
[00:16.69]I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin'
[00:21.00]Hay
[00:24.96]And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to
[00:27.79]The house to eat
[00:32.61]And mama hollered out the back door y'all remember to
[00:36.41]Wipe your feet
[00:40.59]And then she said I got some news this mornin'
[00:43.95]From choctaw ridge
[00:48.74]Today billy joe macallister jumped off the tallahatchie bridge
[00:57.64]And papa said to mama as he passed around the
[01:00.70]Blackeyed peas
[01:04.94]Well billy joe never had a lick of sense pass
[01:08.59]The biscuits please
[01:12.96]There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got
[01:16.47]To plow
[01:20.53]And mama said it was a shame about billy joe anyhow
[01:28.70]Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on
[01:31.83]Choctaw ridge
[01:36.35]And now billy joe macallister's jumped off the tallahatchie bridge
[01:44.97]And brother said he recollected when he and Tom and
[01:47.74]Billie joe
[01:52.26]Put a frog down my back at the carroll County
[01:55.57]Picture show
[01:59.88]And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last sunday
[02:04.11]Night
[02:07.67]I'll have another piece a apple pie you know it
[02:11.07]Don't seem right
[02:15.92]I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on choctaw ridge
[02:23.46]And now ya tell me Billie joe's jumped off the
[02:26.43]Tallahatchie bridge
[02:31.71]And mama said to me child what's happened to your
[02:34.82]Appetite
[02:39.16]I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't touched a
[02:42.77]Single bite
[02:47.67]That nice young preacher brother taylor dropped by today
[02:55.11]Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on sunday oh
[02:58.71]By the way
[03:03.37]He said he saw a girl that looked a lot
[03:05.55]Like you up on choctaw ridge
[03:10.66]And she and Billy joe was throwing somethin' off the
[03:13.87]Tallahatchie bridge
[03:19.20]A year has come and gone since we heard the
[03:21.68]News 'bout billy joe
[03:27.00]And brother married becky thompson they bought a store in
[03:30.14]Tupelo
[03:34.40]There was a virus going 'round papa caught it and
[03:37.35]He died last spring
[03:42.14]And now mama doesn't seem to want to do much
[03:45.22]Of anything
[03:50.38]And me I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers
[03:52.84]Up on choctaw ridge
[03:57.78]And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie
[04:01.99]Bridge