It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day 这是6月的第三，另一个困了，尘土飞扬达一天

I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hay 我在外面做爱棉花和我哥哥是巴林石干草

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

And mama hollered at the back door "y'all remember to wipe your feet" 和妈妈在后门喊道“你们都记得擦脚”

And then she said she got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge 然后她说，她得到了一些新闻这清晨从乔克托岭

Today Billie Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge 今天比利乔MacAllister跳下Tallahatchie桥

   

Papa said to mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas 爸爸给妈妈说，当他通过各地blackeyed豌豆

"Well, Billie Joe never had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits, please" “嗯，比利乔从未有过的感觉一舔，通过饼干，请”

"There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow" “有5亩多，在较低的40我得犁”

Mama said it was shame about Billie Joe, anyhow 妈妈说，这是羞耻比利乔，总之

Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge 好像没什么曾经谈到没有好起来乔克托岭

And now Billie Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge 现在比利乔MacAllister跳下Tallahatchie桥

   

And brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Billie Joe 和哥哥说，他想起当年他和汤姆和比利乔

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? 并我不能说他教会后，上周日晚上？

"I'll have another piece of apple pie, you know it just don't seem right" “我得另一块苹果派，你知道它似乎不正确”

"I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge" “我昨天看到他在锯木厂在乔克托岭”

"And now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge" “现在你告诉我，比利乔的跳下Tallahatchie桥”

   

Mama said to me "Child, what's happened to your appetite?" 妈妈对我说： “孩子，有什么事到你的胃口？ ”

"I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't touched a single bite" “我一直在乱打”整个早上，你都没有碰过一个咬“

"That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today" “那个漂亮的年轻传道人，兄弟泰勒，今天跌”

"Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way" “说他很高兴，周日晚餐，哦，对了”

"He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge" “他说，他看见一个女孩，看起来很像您在乔克托岭”

"And she and Billie Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge" “她和比利乔被扔事端关闭Tallahatchie桥”

   

A year has come 'n' gone since we heard the news 'bout Billie Joe 一年已经到来N走了，因为我们听到这个消息的回合比利乔

Brother married Becky Thompson, 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 a virus going 'round, papa caught it and he died last Spring 有一个病毒去轮，爸爸抓住它，他就死了，去年春天

And now mama doesn't seem to wanna do much of anything 现在妈妈似乎并没有想要做更多的事情

And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge 而我，我花了很多时间捡“花了上乔克托岭

   

And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge 拖放到浑浊的水关桥Tallahatchie