 Genius Lyrics
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Bobbie Gentry – Ode to Billie Joe
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Bobbie Gentry – Fancy
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[Verse 1] / I remember it all very well lookin' back / It was the summer that I turned 18 / We lived in a one-room, run down shack / On the outskirts of New Orleans / [Verse 2
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Bobbie Gentry – Nikki Hokey / Barefootin’ (Live)
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[Nikki Hokey] / [Intro] / Down in Louisiana / Down in Cajun land / Folks got somethin' goin' / Goes somethin' like / [Verse 1] / Folks, come and gitcha tootsie / I wants to t'tie
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Bobbie Gentry – Mississippi Delta
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[Chorus] / M, I, double S, I, double S, I, double P, I / M, I, double S, I, double S, I, double P, I / Right in the middle of the Cotton Belt / Down in the Mississippi Delta
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Bobbie Gentry – Courtyard
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[Verse 1] / Said he'd build me a courtyard / He promised he would / And spend time in my courtyard / Whenever he could / [Verse 2] / In the corner, a tall tree / So shady and cool
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Bobbie Gentry – Mornin' Glory
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[Verse 1] / Good mornin', mornin' glory / Good mornin', what's your story? / Good mornin', where'd you spend the night? / Where did your night dreams take you? / Sorry, but I had
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Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell – Gentle on My Mind
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[Verse 1] / It's knowin' that your door is always open / And your path is free to walk / That makes me tend to leave my sleepin' bag / Rolled up and stashed behind your couch / And
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Bobbie Gentry – He Made a Woman Out of Me
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[Verse 1] / I was born on a levee / A little bit south of Montgom'ry / Mama worked in the big house / And Daddy he worked for the county / I never had no learnin' / Until I turned
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Bobbie Gentry – Benjamin
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[Verse 1] / Benjamin rode out of Montana / On a Palomino pony / Told me he was all alone / He lost his family in '49 / [Verse 2] / Benjamin took me to San Diego / Guess we caused
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Bobbie Gentry – I'll Never Fall in Love Again
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[Verse 1] / What do you get when you fall in love? / A guy with a pin to burst your bubble / That's what you get for all your trouble / I'll never fall in love again / I'll never
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Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell – My Elusive Dreams
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[Verse 1] / I followed you to Texas / I followed you to Utah / We didn't find it there so we moved on / I went with you to Alabam' / Things looked good in Birmingham / We didn't
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Bobbie Gentry – Reunion
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[Verse 1] / Mama, can I? Huh? Mama, can I? Huh, huh? / Can I, Mama? Won't you please let me, Mama? Can I? Huh? / [Verse 2] / That's the sweetest little dress, Sally, where'd you
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Bobbie Gentry – Penduli Pendulum
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[Verse 1] / Penduli, pendulum / Swing around, beat the drum / In July I'll deny / The illusion / [Verse 2] / I'll be gone, beat the drum / There I go, here I come / And goodbye
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Bobbie Gentry – Niki Hoeky
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[Intro] / Down in Louisiana / Down in Cajun land / Folks got somethin' goin' / Goes somethin' like / [Verse 1] / Folks, come and gitcha tootsie / I wants to t'tie ya puppe'tame
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Bobbie Gentry – Touch 'Em with Love
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[Verse 1] / Hey, my good man, won'tcha come here and see about me? / I can hear the angels singin', I believe I'm about to be free / Billy called the doctor, he said, "I'm sorry
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Bobbie Gentry – Bugs
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[Verse 1] / Got a pollywog in your water / A tadpole in the moonshine vat / An' granddaddy-long-leg climbin' on the screen / You better watch, you're gonna squash him flat / [Verse
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Bobbie Gentry – Sweet Peony
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[Verse 1] / I want you to meet me at my houseboat / Be sure and wear your little black rubber raincoat / Write you a letter on thin lined note paper / Hide it in the tree where the
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Bobbie Gentry – I Saw an Angel Die
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[Verse 1] / You / You / Came into my life / It was sunshine everywhere / You were outta sight / Just standin', shinin' there / Shinin' there / Shinin' there / [Verse 2] / All my
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Bobbie Gentry – Refractions
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[Verse 1] / I had a most distressing dream last night / I dreamed I was a crystal bird / Caught in perpetual flight / I'd ascend and glide and descend and ride / On the wind and
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Bobbie Gentry – Find ’Em, Fool ’Em and Forget ’Em
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[Verse 1] / People, let me tell y'all about my father / He was known as the meanest, baddest lovemaker in town / The man had a reputation shuckin' and jivin' all the women / And
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Bobbie Gentry – Natural to Be Gone
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[Verse 1] / You don't know me where I live / My tracks may soon go everywhere / Because there ain't no other place for them to go / Where I dwell outside of now / For me that's
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Bobbie Gentry – Somebody Like Me
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[Verse 1] / Why? How could you fall this time / Fall for that same old line / A line I know you've heard from me / At least a hundred times? / But here I am again / You'll take me
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Bobbie Gentry – The Girl From Cincinnati
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[Verse 1] / Took the Continental Trailways / 'Cause I didn't have the fare / To get from Cincinnati / To Los Angeles by air / [Verse 2] / The guy who said he'd meet me / In a shiny
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Bobbie Gentry – Louisiana Man
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[Verse 1] / At first Mom an' Poppa called their little girl, Lady / They raised her on the banks of a riverbed / A houseboat tied to a big, tall tree / A home for my Poppa an' my
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Bobbie Gentry – Beverly
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[Verse 1] / Beverly packs her lunch pail silently / In the light of the dawn's gray gloom / In her lonely room / [Verse 2] / Beverly works all day at the factory / On her feet from
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Bobbie Gentry – Peaceful
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[Intro] / Dum diddle dee dum / Diddle dee dum, diddle dee dum / Diddle dee dum, diddle dee dum / [Verse 1] / In the mornin' sun / No one will be drinkin' any more wine / And I wake
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Bobbie Gentry – Belinda
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[Verse 1] / When I first met Belinda / It was down in Corpus Christi / Back in August I believe in '53 / She was workin' as a dancer / And her life-size tinted photo / Beckoned
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Bobbie Gentry – Delta Man
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[Verse 1] / Gentle country man, now that I found you / Waitin' in your rich and fertile delta / I will whisper songs to satisfy your longin' / For the warm and tender shelter of my
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Bobbie Gentry – Okolona River Bottom Band
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[Chorus] / La-la-la, la-la / Oh, hey-hey-hey / La-la-la, la-la / [Verse 1] / Every year 'bout this time the local gentry / Have a meetin' in Chickasaw land / They all come to judge
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Bobbie Gentry – Sunday Best
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[Verse] / When I'm walkin' hand in hand with you / I've got my yellow parasol, rivets colored blue / Shiny patent leather shoes, bran' new / Nothin' but my Sunday best for you / [
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Bobbie Gentry – Jeremiah
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[Verse 1] / Jeremiah, maybe I have seen eternity / Right out loud the distant clouds have talked to me / Jeremiah, tell me how you came to prophesize / Can you seen the second
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Jill Sobule – Where Is Bobbie Gentry?
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Out in the desert where the sun slowly cures deep brown / She's got a little shack, a pickup truck / Parked out on the edge of town / It's just what I imagined, no one knows where
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Bobbie Gentry – La Siepe
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E non mi capirai / Mamma, oh mamma / So già che non mi capirai / Ma il mondo non finisce / Là sulla siepe che circonda la nostra casa / E non mi capirai / Mamma, oh mamma / So già
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Bobbie Gentry – Come Away Melinda
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[Verse 1] / Mummy, Mummy, come and look / See what I have found / A little way away from here / While diggin' in the ground / Come away, Melinda / Come in and close the door / It's
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Bobbie Gentry – Seasons Come, Seasons Go
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[Verse 1] / Dogwood blossoms float against / The ice-encrusted creek bank / A tender blade of new green grass / Is bravely pushing upward through the melting snow / The spring
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Bobbie Gentry – Chickasaw County Child
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[Verse 1] / Just outside of Delta country / Where the bitter weeds growin' wild / Born seven miles outside o' Woodland / Was a Chicasaw County child / [Verse 2] / An' Poppa done
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Bobbie Gentry – Billy the Kid
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[Intro] / *Whistling* / [Verse 1] / Billy the Kid, I understand you / It really ain't your fault that the west is so wild / Billy the Kid, can't reprimand you / You must have been
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Bobbie Gentry – But I Can't Get Back
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[Verse 1] / Won't You look down on me, Lord? You know You've always been my friend / I wonder can You see it clear to show the way? / 'Cause sometime I get to feelin' like I want
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Bobbie Gentry – Hurry, Tuesday Child
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[Verse 1] / Hurry, Tuesday child / It's time to be a-goin' / Your good news day child / Has come at last / Hold your chance in your dusty hand / One-way ticket to a promised land
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Bobbie Gentry – Feelin' Good (Demo)
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[Intro] / One, two / One, two, three, four / [Verse 1] / Birds flying high, you know how I feel / Sun in the sky, you know how I feel / Breeze driftin' by, you know how I feel / [
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Bobbie Gentry – Seventh Son (Band Version)
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[Verse 1] / People wonder 'bout the one-ree-o-ree / They ask about the ee-ree-ann / What does it mean, nickory-john / So I'll explain it the best I can / [Verse 2] / Down in the
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Bobbie Gentry – Rainmaker
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[Verse 1] / First day in August / Last rain was in May / When the rainmaker come to Kansas / In the middle of a dusty day / Said the rainmaker to the people / "Donate what you are
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Bobbie Gentry & Jody Reynolds – Requiem for Love
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[Verse 1] / You know I'm gonna love you / Have no fear / Just hold me, dear / I place no one above you / 'Neath the sun / My only one / [Bridge 1] / When the chilly hand of
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Bobbie Gentry – Jessye' Lisabeth
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[Verse 1] / Pray tell, Jessye' Lisabeth / Tell me why you're weeping? / Pray tell, Jessye' Lisabeth / When you should be sleeping? / What secret are you keeping / Jessye' Lisabeth
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Bobbie Gentry – Lookin' In
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[Verse 1] / Can't seem to settle down / Maybe I'll just hang around / But every time you pick me up / I guess I take you down / [Verse 2] / But here I am again / You'll take me
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