Ode To Billie Joe-Ike/Tina Turner

[ti:Ode To Billie Joe] [ar:Ike] [al:Something] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ode To Billie Joe - Ike/Tina Turner (蒂娜·特纳) [00:08.18]It was the third of June [00:10.11]Another sleepy dusty Delta day [00:13.40] [00:16.04]I was out chopping cotton [00:18.05]And my brother was baling hay [00:21.18] [00:23.80]And at dinner time we stopped [00:26.07]And walked back to the house to eat [00:28.71] [00:31.04]And Mama hollered out the back door y'all [00:33.80]Remember to wipe your feet [00:36.59] [00:39.09]And then she said [00:40.18]I got some news this morning from Choctaw Ridge [00:43.83] [00:46.51]Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge [00:51.33] [00:54.54]N Papa said to Mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas [00:58.97] [01:01.94]Well Billy Joe never had a lick of sense [01:04.35] [01:05.24]Pass the biscuits please [01:06.74] [01:10.19]There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow [01:15.08] [01:17.73]Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe anyhow [01:22.71] [01:25.47]Seems like nothing ever comes to no good [01:27.86] [01:28.48]Up on Choctaw Ridge and now [01:34.03]Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge [01:37.95] [01:41.25]Brother said he recollected [01:43.07]When he and Tom and Billie Joe [01:45.26] [01:48.61]Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show [01:52.92] [01:56.47]And wasn't I talking to me after church last Sunday night [02:02.08] [02:04.42]I'll have another piece-a apple pie [02:06.31] [02:07.26]You know it don't seem right [02:08.83] [02:12.35]I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge [02:17.48] [02:19.64]And now ya tell me Billie Joe's jumped [02:22.38]Off the Tallahatchie Bridge [02:24.73] [02:27.46]N Mama said to me child [02:29.02] [02:29.70]What's happened to your appetite [02:31.69] [02:34.86]I've been cooking all morning [02:36.87]And you haven't touched a single bite [02:40.05] [02:43.03]That nice young preacher Brother Taylor [02:45.72]Dropped by today said [02:47.85] [02:50.58]He'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday [02:53.06] [02:53.96]Oh by the way [02:55.14] [02:58.19]And he said he saw a girl that looked [03:00.82]A lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge [03:03.83] [03:05.66]And she and Billy Joe was throwing something [03:08.48]Off the Tallahatchie Bridge [03:10.99] [03:13.98]A year has come gone now [03:15.39] [03:15.97]Since we heard the news about Billy Joe [03:18.47] [03:21.71]Non Brother married Becky Thompson [03:23.65]They bought a store in Tupelo [03:25.64] [03:29.12]There was a virus going round [03:31.26]Papa caught it and he died last Spring [03:34.33] [03:36.85]And Mama doesn't seem to wanna [03:39.10]Do much of anything [03:41.60] [03:44.55]And me I spend a lot of time [03:46.81]Picking flowers up on Choctaw Ridge [03:50.19] [03:51.66]And drop them into the muddy water [03:54.23]Off the Tallahatchie Bridge