To: chasio649
Ode to Billy Joe, Bobby Gentry’s song of bleak rural povertyThat's news to me. The song refers to hard work (choppin' cotton, balin' hay and plowing) and lots of food (black-eyed peas, biscuits, apple pie--"I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't touched a single bite") but never to "bleak rural poverty."
23 posted on
09/02/2007 7:26:31 PM PDT by
catpuppy
To: catpuppy
lower 40,,,good bottom land
26 posted on
09/02/2007 7:31:47 PM PDT by
silentreignofheroes
(When the Last Two Prophets are taken, there will be no Tommorrow!)
To: catpuppy
I agree. Ode to Billie Joe never evoked images of poverty to me, either. Maybe it’s part of today’s tendency to look down on work.
28 posted on
09/02/2007 7:45:39 PM PDT by
gcruse
(...now I have to feed the dog as if nothing has happened.)
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