Ode to Billy Joe

Текст песни TMC Country Stars - Ode to Billy Joe

It was the third of June another sleepy dusty Delta day
I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was bailin' hay
And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
And mama hollered at the backdoor "Y'all remember to wipe your feet"
Then she said "I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge

Today Billie Joe Macallister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

And papa said to mama as he passed around the black eyed peas
"Billie 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"
Mama said it was shame about Billie Joe anyhow
Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge

And now Billie 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 Caroll County picture show
Wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night
"I'll have another piece of apple pie you know it don't seem right
I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge

And now you tell me Billie Joe has jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

And mama said to me "Child what's happened to your appetite
Why I've been cookin' all mornin'
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 Billie Joe was throwin'

Somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

A year has come and gone since we heard the news 'bout Billie Joe
And brother married Becky Thompson they bought a store in Tupelo
There was a virus goin' 'round papa caught it and he died last spring
And now mama doesn't seem to wanna do much of anything
And me I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge

And droppin' them in to the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge