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点击复制Ode to Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry
Written by：Bobbie Gentry
It was the third of june another sleepy dusty delta
那是六月三日 又是昏昏沉沉
Day
布满阴霾的一天
I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin'
我在外边摘棉花
Hay
哥哥在打包干草
And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to
到了晚饭时间 我们停下手里的活
The house to eat
走回家吃饭
And mama hollered out the back door y'all remember to
妈妈在后门大声喊叫
Wipe your feet
记得擦净你们的双脚
And then she said I got some news this mornin'
然后她说 今天早上我听到一些新闻
From choctaw ridge
从乔克托山脉传来
Today billy joe macallister jumped off the tallahatchie bridge
今天比利乔麦卡利斯特 从塔拉哈奇桥上跳了下来
And papa said to mama as he passed around the
爸爸告诉妈妈
Blackeyed peas
当他四处分发豇豆的时候
Well billy joe never had a lick of sense pass
比利乔从未有任何反应
The biscuits please
给我一些饼干 谢谢
There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got
在我40岁的时候
To plow
我还有五英亩的土地需要开垦
And mama said it was a shame about billy joe anyhow
妈妈说 无论如何 这对比利乔来说是个耻辱
Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on
似乎在乔克托山上
Choctaw ridge
永远不会有好事发生
And now billy joe macallister's jumped off the tallahatchie bridge
现在 比利乔麦卡利斯特从塔拉哈奇桥上跳了下来
And brother said he recollected when he and Tom and
哥哥说 他想起了跟汤姆 还有比利乔
Billie joe
的回忆
Put a frog down my back at the carroll County
在卡洛尔县的画展上
Picture show
他在我背上放了一只青蛙
And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last sunday
我是不是在教堂后面跟他说过话
Night
就在上个周末夜晚
I'll have another piece a apple pie you know it
我要再来一份苹果派 你知道
Don't seem right
一切似乎不太对
I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on choctaw ridge
昨天 我还在乔克托山上的锯木厂看见了他
And now ya tell me Billie joe's jumped off the
现在 你告诉我 比利乔
Tallahatchie bridge
从塔拉哈奇桥上跳了下来
And mama said to me child what's happened to your
妈妈问我 孩子
Appetite
今天怎么胃口不好
I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't touched a
我忙活了一个早上
Single bite
但你还没有尝一口
That nice young preacher brother taylor dropped by today
今天 那个帅气年轻的牧师弟弟泰勒顺便过来拜访
Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on sunday oh
他说 他很乐意在周末留下吃晚餐
By the way
顺便提一下
He said he saw a girl that looked a lot
他说 他在乔克托山上
Like you up on choctaw ridge
遇见了一个很像你的女孩
And she and Billy joe was throwing somethin' off the
她和比利乔一起
Tallahatchie bridge
将一些东西扔到了塔拉哈奇桥下
A year has come and gone since we heard the
自从我们听说比利乔的消息
News 'bout billy joe
已经过去一年之久
And brother married becky thompson they bought a store in
哥哥娶了贝基汤姆森
Tupelo
他们在图珀洛买了一个店铺
There was a virus going 'round papa caught it and
爸爸感染了一种病毒
He died last spring
去年春天离开人世
And now mama doesn't seem to want to do much
如今 妈妈似乎不想
Of anything
做太多事情
And me I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers
很多时间
Up on choctaw ridge
我都在乔克托山上采摘花儿
And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie
然后把它们扔到
Bridge
塔拉哈奇桥下的泥水里