The father might have had a military pension from WWII and/ or Korea, and the women may have tenanted out the farm fields. Best guess I can figure for the time.
"It was the third of June...."
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The father might have had a military pension from WWII and/ or Korea, and the women may have tenanted out the farm fields. Best guess I can figure for the time.
Alpo
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After I made my post I thought about it some more. Military pension did not occur to me, but I did think about sharecropping.
Tex1001
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Summer of '67 I graduated high school.
For previous 5 months my best bud was dating a dead ringer
for Bobbie Gentry. Made him look goood.
R.I.P. Toni Lontos. You were a true beauty!
For previous 5 months my best bud was dating a dead ringer
for Bobbie Gentry. Made him look goood.
R.I.P. Toni Lontos. You were a true beauty!
The farmer could be considered self employed. He could have kicked into SS. Don't know if he'd have had to also do the employers contribution. If so, they could claim if he'd contributed long enough.
Post 12- my favorite line involved "____ long haired friends of Jesus in a chartruse micro bus."
Post 12- my favorite line involved "____ long haired friends of Jesus in a chartruse micro bus."
We saw her in Vegas opening for Dean Martin. She was as beautiful in person as she was on television.
Bobbie Gentry was hot stuff, I was sixteen or so when that came out. I only spent a little time around a Southern Belle. Son, that butter smooth drawl does it for me big time. I met a gal in Dallas that had me at "Honey, where ya'll from?"
Oh heck... I walked in a bar one night when I was about19...the bar maid said to me in a good ol Georgia peach drawl...what can I do for YOU darlin? Stick a fork in me I said what time do you get off work? She said Midnight...I said I'll be here! she said I'll be waiting...She was too! This song was a truly haunting tune
Suicide
A pastor friend went hunting with his son and when he got back to the truck found his boy dead by the driver-side door, having gotten out the preacher's revolver behind the seat and shot himself in the head with it. He and his wife were devastated. They never knew why. There were no "signs" and all the self-appointed expert analyzers proved they didn't know why either. It took the comforting grace of God Himself for them to stop blaming themselves. He was 14 years old...
The incident caused me to devote the next few years of study to the subject of teen suicide, and I learned a lot. Bobby Gentry's song really says what you need to know. No matter how close she was to him at church, or at the Carroll County picture show, or wheresoever, no matter how many times she goes back to the bridge to drop flowers and think about him she will NEVER understand why. Billy Joe McCallister died with his secrets...Would you pass the biscuits please?
A pastor friend went hunting with his son and when he got back to the truck found his boy dead by the driver-side door, having gotten out the preacher's revolver behind the seat and shot himself in the head with it. He and his wife were devastated. They never knew why. There were no "signs" and all the self-appointed expert analyzers proved they didn't know why either. It took the comforting grace of God Himself for them to stop blaming themselves. He was 14 years old...
The incident caused me to devote the next few years of study to the subject of teen suicide, and I learned a lot. Bobby Gentry's song really says what you need to know. No matter how close she was to him at church, or at the Carroll County picture show, or wheresoever, no matter how many times she goes back to the bridge to drop flowers and think about him she will NEVER understand why. Billy Joe McCallister died with his secrets...Would you pass the biscuits please?
My girlfriend at the time and I sat and listened to Ms. Gentry's tune and figured out that the girl in question had been in a relationship with ole Billy Joe that went a little further than as suspected as we hoped our secrets were being kept. We thought it was possible that the girl became pregnant and together they went to the local herbal medicine practitioner who gave her a potion that created a miscarriage and it was the tiny still born child they dropped into the river from the bridge. We had a great imagination and thought about making a movie about the song long before it came out or was even being thought about in 1968-69.
