Happy 81st Birthday to Mysterious Bobbie Gentry

SInger/composer of one of the greatest - albeit one of the darkest - pop songs ever written, she disappeared from the public eye in the early 1980s and hasn't been heard from since.
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eli1601 · 70-79, M

“It was the 3rd of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day.”

Gusman · 61-69, M

@eli1601 "I was out choppin' cotton, and my brother was balin' hay"

graphite · 61-69, M

@Gusman "Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense; pass the biscuits, please" Great storytelling. This song scared the hell out of me when I was 6-7 years old, and it was played on the radio all day long.

Gusman · 61-69, M

@graphite Personally I never took a lot of notice of song lyrics when I was young. At least not the meanings of the song. I liked the tunes, some songs had easy lyrics, so I ended up liking the song.
That said, the Skyhooks song, Horror Movie scared me so much I ended up sleeping under the blankets, lest a monster would eat my exposed flesh. 😄

eli1601 · 70-79, M

@Gusman I guess the song lyrics that affect me the most are the lyrics to "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"