| Song | Ode to Billie Joe (live) |
| Artist | Buddy Rich |
| Album | Mercy, Mercy [live] |
| 作词 : Gentry | |
| It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day | |
| I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hay | |
| And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat | |
| And Mama hollered out the back door "y'all remember to wipe your feet" | |
| And then she said "I got some news this mornin' 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 I've got to plow" | |
| And Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe, anyhow | |
| Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge | |
| And now Billy 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 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 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 cookin' all morning 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 Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge" | |
| A year has come 'n' gone since we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe | |
| And Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo | |
| There was a virus going '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 drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge |
| zuò cí : Gentry | |
| It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day | |
| I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hay | |
| And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat | |
| And Mama hollered out the back door " y' all remember to wipe your feet" | |
| And then she said " I got some news this mornin' 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 I' ve got to plow" | |
| And Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe, anyhow | |
| Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge | |
| And now Billy 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 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 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 cookin' all morning 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 Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge" | |
| A year has come ' n' gone since we heard the news ' bout Billy Joe | |
| And Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo | |
| There was a virus going ' 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 drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge |