歌曲名 Ode To Billie Joe (Album Version)

歌手名 Molly Johnson

作词：Bobby Gentry

作曲：Bobby Gentry

It was the third of June

Another sleepy dusty Delta day

I was out chopping cotton

And my brother was baling hay

At dinner time we stopped

And walked back to the house to eat

And Mama hollered out the back door

you all remember to wipe your feet

And then she said

I got some news this morning 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

Got to plow

And Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe anyhow

Seems like nothing ever comes to no good

Up on Choctaw Ridge

And now Billy Joe MacAllister

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 talking 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's

Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

And Mama said to me

Child what's happened to your appetite

I've been cooking all morning

You haven't touched a single bite

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 were throwing something

Off the Tallahatchie Bridge

A year has come and gone since

We heard the news about Billy Joe

And Brother married Becky Thompson

Bought a store in Tupelo

There was a virus going around

Papa caught it died last Spring

And now Mama doesn't seem to

Wanna do much of anything

And me I spend a lot of time picking flowers

Up on Choctaw Ridge

And drop them in the muddy water

Off the Tallahatchie Bridge Yeah

Ooh the Tallahatchie Bridge

Oh Muddy Muddy Muddy Water

Off the Tallahatchie Bridge

Sleepy Dusty Delta Day

Tallahatchie Bridge