paroles de chanson Ode to Billie Joe - Manu Lafer

It was the third of June
Another sleepy, dusty, Delta day
I was out chopping cotton
And my brother was baling hay
And at dinner time we stopped and walked back
To the house to eat
And mamma hollered out the back door
You all remember to wipe your feet
And then she said
I got some news this morning
From chocktaw ridge
Today Billie Joe MCallister
Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

Papa said to mamma
As he passed around the black-eyed peas
Oh, 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
And mamma said
It was a shame about Billie Joe anyhow
Seems like nothing ever comes to no good
Up on Choctaw ridge
And now Billie Joe Mcallister'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 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

Mamma said to me
Child, what's happened to your appetite?
Well, I been cooking 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 Billie Joe was throwing something
Off the Tallahatchie Bridge

A year has come and gone
Since we heard the news 'bout Billie Joe
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 mamma doesn't seem to want to do much
Of anything
And me, I spend a lot of time
Picking flowers up on Choctaw ridge
And drop them into
The muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge