Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra – Riders In The Sky (A Cowboy Legend) 1949
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Bobbie Gentry – Ode To Billie Joe
It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day
I was out choppin' cotton, and my brother was balin' hay
And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
And mama hollered out the back door, y'all, remember to wipe your feet
And then she said, I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge
Today, Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie BridgeAnd papa said to mama, as he passed around the blackeyed peas
Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense; pass the biscuits, please
There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow
And mama said it was shame about Billy Joe, anyhow
Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge
And now Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
This song, the third most popular song of 1967, fitting for it's lyrics about June 3rd, is considered an anti-war songΒ that discusses the cruelty of war and the general apathy of the public towards it.
As Gentry told Fred Bronson, βThe song is sort of a study in unconscious cruelty. But everybody seems more concerned with what was thrown off the bridge than they are with the thoughtlessness of the people expressed in the song. What was thrown off the bridge really isnβt that important.
Steam Powered Drag Line
Steam Powered Drag Line. It wasn't all that long ago that most of our public highways were built with machines like this -- well up until World War II, and in probably some rural communities, long after.