Bobbie Gentry
Mississippi Delta
Ode To Billie Joe (1967)

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Right in the middle of the cotton belt
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Down in the Mississippi Delta
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Wearin' last years possum belt
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Smack dab in the Mississippi Delta

E7♯9                                            w/ harmonica
Have me a little that Johnny cake
A little bit of that apple pan dowdy
Pickin them scuppernon's off that vine
Chigger bite, it's goin' to beat howdy

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  Ate me a bucket of Muscadine
  Sit on the riverbank after dark
  Drop my line down a crawdad hole
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  Do him in with a scaly bark
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  One-ree-o-ree-ee-reeanni
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  Fidderliss-farce-nickory-john-queery-quan

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Couplet 1

Sittin and scratchin' mosquito bites
Old fox done give him the slip
Watchin' the mornin' glories grow
In Biloxi on an overnight trip

  I bet five dollars to win two bits
  Eat a peppermint stick on Sunday
  Ain't no use in a hurrying up
  Can't leave till a week from Monday
  One-ree-o-ree-ee-reeanni
  Fidderliss-farce-nickory-john-queery-quaaaan

E7♯9m  x 14  w/ In the Mississippi Delta, Miss iss siss ippi Delta

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