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55 years on from Bobbie Gentry’s mystic masterpiece 'Ode to Billy Joe' and its prescient message
Far Out Magazine ^ | FRI 26TH AUG 2022 | Tom Taylor

Posted on 08/26/2022 4:15:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: 11th_VA; BenLurkin
Author seems to not know what prescient means.

Yeah, there were never any viruses "going 'round" prior to 2020! / sarcasm

A song mentioning a virus is not "prescient."

Regards,

61 posted on 08/27/2022 12:32:12 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: A_perfect_lady

She would have had to have been a hell of a woman to incite suicide over a breakup after a fling. But who knows. As I recall Bobby was pretty hot back in the day when she wrote the song. Maybe it was an exaggeration of something in her own life. Maybe she broke up with some guy and he really went into a funk, and she just added the suicide to spice up the song.

She’s never revealed the meaning of the song or the story it’s supposed to be telling.


62 posted on 08/27/2022 4:58:18 AM PDT by redangus
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To: redangus

Well, if they were both teenagers, she wouldn’t have had to be that special. Teenagers can have a hard time handling things.


63 posted on 08/27/2022 5:26:09 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: Bonemaker

From way back, back when I rode those ol’ motorscooters, the term “hardbellies” is returning to my memory. Back before Easyriders magazine went woke and started featuring chicks with their own bikes.

Yeahhhh... she one snappy tomato.


64 posted on 08/27/2022 8:02:52 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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