「歌曲」Bobbie Gentry - Ode To Billie Joe

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
And then she said I got some news this mornin'
From choctaw ridge
Today billy joe macallister jumped off the tallahatchie bridge
And papa said to mama as he passed around the
Blackeyed peas
Well billy joe never had a lick of 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 billy joe anyhow
Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on
Choctaw ridge
And now billy joe macallister's jumped off the tallahatchie bridge
And 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 a apple pie you know it
Don't seem right
I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on choctaw ridge
And now ya tell me billie joe's jumped off the
Tallahatchie bridge
And mama said to me child what's happened to your
Appetite
I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't touched a
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 Billy joe was throwing somethin' off the
Tallahatchie bridge
A year has come and gone since we heard the
News 'bout billy joe
And brother married becky thompson they bought a store in
Tupelo
There was a virus going '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 pickin' flowers
Up on choctaw ridge
And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie
Bridge