“A year has come ‘n’ gone since we heard the news ’bout Billie Joe By Rich Lindbloom Passing through the back roads of Mississippi last week, I noticed an old abandoned grocery store.
Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo
There was a virus going ’round, Papa caught it and died last Spring
And now Mama doesn’t seem to wanna do much of anything
And me, I spend a lot of time pickin’ flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge.” – Bobbie Gentry
Lindbloom’s View: Fanfare for the Common Man
