[00:00.000] 作词 : Bobbie Gentry
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Bobbie Gentry
[00:11.073]Was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day
[00:23.558]I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hay
[00:34.722]And at dinnertime we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
[00:46.409]And Mama hollered out the back door y'all remember to wipe your feet
[00:57.824]And then she said I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge
[01:09.251]Today Billie Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
[01:21.202]And Papa said to Mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas
[01:31.297]Well, Billie Joe never had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits please
[01:43.517]There's five more acres in the lower forty I got to plow
[01:54.410]And Mama said it was shame about Billie Joe, anyhow
[02:05.562]Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge
[02:16.977]And now Billie Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
[02:29.202]Mama said to me, Child, what's happened to your appetite?
[02:39.297]I've been cookin' all mornin' and you haven't touched a single bite
[02:50.984]That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today
[03:01.612]Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way
[03:12.765]He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge
[03:24.191]And she and Billie Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge
[04:09.338]A year has come and gone since we heard the news 'bout Billie Joe
[04:20.503]And brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo
[04:30.594]There was a virus goin' 'round, Papa caught it and he died last spring
[04:41.487]And now mama doesn't seem to wanna do much of anything
[04:52.902]And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
[05:04.067]And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge