Ode To Billie Joe — текст песни (Tammy Wynette)

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
And then she said I got the news this mornin` from Choctaw Wridge
Today Billie Joe Macallister`s jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Papa said to mama as he passed around the black eyed peas
Well Billie Joe never had a lick of sense pass the biscuits please
There`s five more acres in the lower forty I got to plow
And mama said it was a shame about Billie Joe anyhow
Seems like nothing ever comes to no good upon Choctaw Wridge
And now Billie Joe Macallister`s jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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 of apple pie you know it don`t seem right
I saw him at the sawmill yesterday upon Choctaw Wridge
And now you tell me Billie Joe has jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Mama said to me child what`s happened to your apetite
Well I`ve been cookin` all mornin` and you haven`t touched a single bite
That nice young preacher brother Tailor 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 upon Choctaw Wridge
She and Billie Joe was throwin` somethin` off the Tallahatchie Bridge
One year has come and gone since we heard the news about Billie Joe
Brother married Becky Thompson and they bought a store in Tupelo
There was virus goin` 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 spent a lot of time pickin` flowers upon Chotaw Wridge
And dropped `em into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge