It was the third of June another sleepy dusty Delta day 这是六月的第三个又困了尘土飞扬的日子三角洲

I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was bailin' hay 我在外面做爱棉花和我的兄弟被柏林干草

And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat 而在吃饭的时候，我们停了下来，走回屋里吃

And mama hollered at the backdoor y'all remember to wipe your feet 和妈妈在后门喊了一声你们要记得擦脚

And then she said I got the news this mornin' from Choctaw Wridge 然后她说，我得到这个消息这个早上，从乔克托Wridge

Today Billie Joe Macallister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge 今天比利乔Macallister的跳下Tallahatchie桥

Papa said to mama as he passed around the black eyed peas 爸爸给妈妈说，当他通过各地的黑眼豆豆

Well Billie Joe never had a lick of sense pass the biscuits please 嗯比利乔从未有过的感觉舔传递饼干请

There's five more acres in the lower forty I got to plow 还有5亩多在较低的40练到犁

And mama said it was a shame about Billie Joe anyhow 和妈妈说，这是一个关于比利乔的耻辱，无论如何

Seems like nothing ever comes to no good upon Choctaw Wridge 好像从来都没有谈到在乔克托Wridge没有好

And now Billie Joe Macallister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge 现在比利乔Macallister的跳下Tallahatchie桥

Brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Billie Joe 哥哥说，他回忆，当他和汤姆和比利乔

Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show 把一个青蛙了我的背在卡罗尔县图片展示

And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night 并我不能说他教会上周日晚上之后

I'll have another piece of apple pie you know it don't seem right 我有另一块苹果派，你似乎知道它的权利不

I saw him at the sawmill yesterday upon Choctaw Wridge 我昨天看到他在锯木厂在乔克托Wridge

And now you tell me Billie Joe has jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge 现在你告诉我，比利乔已经跳下Tallahatchie桥

Mama said to me child what's happened to your apetite 妈妈对我说：孩子发生了什么事到你的apetite

Well I've been cookin' all mornin' and you haven't touched a single bite 嗯，我一直在乱打“的所有清晨，你都没有碰过一个咬

That nice young preacher brother Tailor dropped by today 那个漂亮的年轻传道人的兄弟裁缝下降了今天

Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday oh by the way 说他会很高兴，周日晚餐哦对了

He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you upon Choctaw Wridge 他说，他看到一个女孩在乔克托Wridge看起来很像你

She and Billie Joe was throwin' somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge 她和比利乔被肆意事端关闭Tallahatchie桥

One year has come and gone since we heard the news about Billie Joe 一年来了又走了，因为我们听到这个消息的有关比利乔

Brother married Becky Thompson and they bought a store in Tupelo 哥哥结婚贝基·汤普森，他们买了一个店面图珀洛

There was virus goin' round papa caught it and he died last spring 有病毒布莱恩轮爸爸捉住了它，他死了，去年春天

And now mama doesn't seem to want to do much of anything 现在妈妈似乎并不想做太多的事情

And me I spent a lot of time pickin' flowers upon Chotaw Wridge 而我，我花了很多时间在Chotaw Wridge接下去花

And dropped 'em into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge 而下降时间落水关Tallahatchie桥