Ode to Billie Joe – Bobbie Gentry：歌詞及意思
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Ode to Billie Joe (1967) – Bobbie Gentry
And papa said to mama, as he passed around the blackeyed peas
Ode to Billie Joe (1967) – Bobbie Gentry
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
歌曲Ode to Billie Joe，由美國歌手Bobbie Gentry在1967年唱出。歌曲長達，類型屬於，填詞作曲都是由Bobbie Gentry負責，歌曲被收錄於同名專輯《Ode to Billie Joe》。在當時，歌曲成功擠進美國流行歌曲排行榜Billboard Hot 100及R&B和Country鄉村分類排行榜，歌曲亦被(Grammy Awards)格莢美獎提名了８次，最終嬴得3個獎項。期後，被《滾石》雜誌列入500首最佳歌曲之一，更被著名音樂媒體Pitchfork列入60年代200首最佳歌曲之一。歌曲以第一人稱形式，描述一個郊區Mississippi密西西比州家庭對Billie Joe McAllister自殺的感受。
歌詞方面
填詞作曲由Bobbie 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-a apple pie; you know, it don’t seem right
I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge
And now ya 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 and 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 want to 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
