Ode To Billie Joe

Name: Ode To Billie Joe
Uploaded: 1967-01-01
Description: Written by Bobbie Gentry, this song takes the form of a first-person narrative performed in a half-spoken style over sparse acoustic guitar, telling of a rural Mississippi family's reaction to a local boy's suicide.

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1967 60s ballad

Written by Bobbie Gentry, this song takes the form of a first-person narrative performed in a half-spoken style over sparse acoustic guitar, telling of a rural Mississippi family's reaction to a local boy's suicide.