Ode to Billie Joe

[ti:Ode to Billie Joe] [ar:The Hit Crew] [al:Ultimate Men of Pop, Vol. 39] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.53]Ode to Billie Joe - The Hit Crew (热歌组合) [00:02.06] [00:13.02]It was the third of June [00:14.81]Another sleepy dusty delta day [00:17.31] [00:21.28]I was out choppin' cotton [00:23.05]And my brother was balin' hay [00:25.75] [00:29.44]And at dinner time we stopped [00:31.16]And walked back to the house to eat [00:33.77] [00:37.32]And Mama hollered out the back door [00:39.42]"Y'all remember to wipe your feet" [00:41.99] [00:45.35]Then she said [00:46.32]"I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge [00:50.30] [00:53.58]Today Billie Joe McAllister [00:55.69]Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge" [00:58.21] [01:02.42]Papa said to Mama as he passed [01:04.88]Around the black-eyed peas [01:06.30] [01:10.04]"Well Billie Joe never had a lick o' sense [01:12.60]Pass the biscuits please [01:14.49] [01:18.52]There's five more acres in the lower forty [01:21.57]I've got to plow" [01:25.94]And Mama said it was a shame [01:28.32]About Billie Joe anyhow [01:30.43] [01:34.79]Seems like nothin' ever comes [01:36.23]To no good up on Choctaw Ridge [01:38.82] [01:42.48]And now Billie Joe McAllister's [01:44.71]Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge [01:47.18] [01:51.21]Brother said he recollected [01:52.92]When he and Tom and Billie Joe [01:55.26] [01:58.82]Put a frog down my back [02:00.60]At the Carroll County picture show [02:03.15] [02:06.96]And wasn't I talkin' to him [02:08.82]After church last Sunday night [02:11.98] [02:15.18]I'll have another piece of apple pie [02:17.53]You know it don't seem right [02:20.05] [02:23.70]I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge [02:27.87] [02:31.35]And now you tell me Billie Joe's [02:33.29]Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge [02:35.93] [02:40.13]Mama said to me [02:41.18]"Child what's happened to your appetite [02:44.35] [02:47.64]I been cookin' all mornin' [02:49.15] [02:49.83]And you haven't touched single bite [02:52.06] [02:56.15]That nice young preacher [02:57.83]Brother Taylor dropped by today [02:59.84] [03:03.90]Said he'd be pleased to have dinner [03:05.90]On Sunday oh by the way [03:08.59] [03:12.59]He said he saw a girl that looked [03:14.25]A lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge [03:16.89] [03:19.92]And she and Billie Joe was throwin' [03:22.20]Somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge" [03:24.94] [03:28.92]A year has come and gone since [03:30.64]I heard the news 'bout Billie Joe [03:32.83] [03:36.92]Brother married Becky Thompson [03:38.87]They bought a store in Tupelo [03:40.43] [03:44.54]There was a virus goin' round [03:46.38]Papa caught it and he died last spring [03:50.35] [03:52.88]And now Mama doesn't seem [03:54.70]To want to do much of anything [03:56.84] [04:01.37]And me I spend a lot of time picking [04:03.62]Flowers up on Choctaw Ridge [04:09.01]And drop them into the muddy water [04:11.57]Off the Tallahatchie Bridge