Bobbie Gentry

Baby, it's only your imagination That keeps you away from me Baby, it's only your imagination That won't let you be what you want to be Well, it seems that you're always thinking You've got a busy, busy mind But that wasn't me you saw last night Your imaginati...

Two men sittin' in straight back chairs Feet propped up on the railin' Sittin' in front of the country store Discussin' how the crops were failin' About that time a car drove by With an Ace Insurance bumper sticker Well that must be the man been courtin' Abel...

Dream, dream, dream, dream Dream, dream, dream, dream When I want you in my arms When I want you and all your charms Whenever I want you All I have to do is dream Dream, dream, dream When I feel blue in the night And I need you to hold me tight Whenever I wa...

Another place, another time Another song, another rhyme Is it so wrong to wish it so? The seasons come, the seasons go Another year, another day So long ago, and far away.... There was a time when we could do anything With a brown paper bag and piece of strin...

Rain on my Sunday shoes Pick up the daily news Looks like tomorrows blues But it's better than none Call on the telephone Knowin' that he's not home I'll put on the Rollin' Stones And I can have me some fun Start up a flight of stairs Stand up and comb your...

When I first met Belinda It was down in Corpus Christi Back in August I believe, back in '53 She was workin' as a dancer And her life-size tinted photo Beckoned tantalizingly from the marquee The red neon was flashing Music poured out on the street And the clu...

Benjamin rode out of Montana On a Palomino pony He told me he was all alone He lost his family in forty-nine Benjamin took me to San Diego Guess we caused quite a commotion Selling Pacific ocean water And callin' it seaweed wine (Chorus) Oh, I never had as g...

Beverly packs her lunch pail silently In the light of the dawn's gray gloom In her lonely room Beverly works all day at the factory On her feet from five to nine On the assembly line Beverly drifts away into a reverie Dreaming of the girl she used to be When...

Big boss man Can you hear me when I call? Big boss man Can you hear me when I call? Oh, you ain't so big You're just tall, that's all You got me working, boss man Working 'round the clock I want me a drink of water You won't let me stop You big boss man Can...

Billy the kid I understand you It really ain't your fault that the west is so wild Billy the kid cain't reprimand you You must have been deprived when you was a child Whoopee ti yi yipee yipee, shoot 'em in the belly Billy Ti yi yipee yipee, shoot 'em in the...

Got a pollywog in your water Tadpole in the moonshine vat An' granddaddy-long-leg climbing on the screen You better watch, you're gonna squash him flat Boll weevils in your cotton And dirt-dauber busy building a nest The red wasp's gonna swoop down and get ya...

Won't you look down on me, Lord? You know you've always been my friend I wonder can you see it clear To show the way 'Cause sometime I get to feelin' Like I want to be headin' home And hide my troubled mind and soul In yesterday Sometimes I get to prayin' For...

Here are some samples of the fabric, Miss Morgan I know how painful it must be But I guess it's your responsibility I understand he was your fiancee What a tragedy Everybody wants to go to heaven, Miss Morgan But nobody wants to die Have you often wondered wh...

Just outside of delta country Where the bitter weeds growin wild Born seven miles outside of Woodland Was a Chicasaw County child An Poppa done brung us some peppermint candy Momma fixed a custard pie Bought her a store-bought doll from Jackson She's 'a apple...

Mommy, mommy, come and look See what I have found A little way away from here While digging in the ground Come away, Melinda Come in and close the door It's nothing but a picture book They had before the war Mommy, mommy, come and see Oh, mommy come and look T...

Said he'd build me a courtyard He promised he would And spend time in my courtyard Whenever he could In the corner, a tall tree So shady and cool And a white marble fountain In a clear sparkling pool A lovely stone courtyard With a lacy iron gate And a bountif...

If I could ease your pain, if I could lighten your load If I could make it just a little bit better for you If I could just help you find that secret place in your mind Where the light of understanding love outshines the sun You know that sweet moonshine is no...

Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice In the church where a weddin' has been Lives in a dream Waits at the window, wearin' the face That she keeps in a jar by the door Who is it for? All the lonely people Where do they all come from All the lonely people Where do th...

"Well, I remember it all very well lookin' back It was the summer that I turned eighteen. We lived in a one-room, run down shack On the outskirts of New Orleans. We didn't have money for food or rent To say the least we was hard-pressed When Momma spent every...

People, let me tell you all about my father He was known as the meanest, baddest love maker in town The man had a reputation for shuckin' and jivin' all the women Breaking their hearts, lord, and leavin' them cryin' He told me: "Hon, let me give you some advic...

It's knowing that your door is always open And your path is free to walk That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag Rolled up and stashed behind your couch And it's knowing I'm not shackled by forgotten words and bonds And the ink stains that have dried upon...

I want to tell you all the story 'bout the Harper Valley widow wife Who had a teenage daughter who attended Harper Valley Junior High Well, her daughter came home one afternoon and didn't even stop to play She said, "Mama I got a note here from the Harper Vall...

I was born on a levy A little bit south of Montgomery Mama worked in the big house And daddy he worked for the County I never had no learnin' until I turned 16 When Joe Henry come up the river, yonder Lord, made a woman out of me Lord, he made a woman...

How foolish can you be to be ruled by jealousy Would you throw away what we've planned Why don't you ask your heart, ask it if we should part You'll find like mine it just won't understand Let's have a heart to talk Let's have an arm in arm walk My darling, le...

To lead a better life, I need my love to be here. Here, making each day of the year Changing my life with a wave of his hand Nobody can deny that there's something there There, running my hands through his hair Each of us thinking how good it can be Someone i...

Hurry Tuesday child Its time to be a goin' Your good news day, child Has come at last Hold your chance in your dusty hand One way ticket to a promised land I understand No more blues day child Hard time is far behind you Hurry Tuesday child Your fortune's gonn...

A gentle breeze from Hushabye Mountain Softly blows o’er Lullaby Bay It fills the sails of boats that are waiting Waiting to sail your worries away It isn’t far to Hushabye Mountain And your boat waits down by the quay The winds of night so softly are sighing...

You You Came into my life It was sunshine everywhere You were outta sight Just standing, shining there Shining there Shining there All my days were bright You took me to the sky You showed me the light You taught me how to fly to the clouds Straight up to heav...

What Do You Get When You Fall in Love? A Guy With a Pin to Burst Your Bubble. That's What You Get For All Your Trouble. I'll Never Fall in Love Again. I'll Never Fall in Love Again. What Do You Get When You Kiss a Guy? You Get Enough Germs to Catch Pneu...

If you gotta make a fool of somebody If you gotta make a fool of someone Do you really have to hurt me? I'm the one that'll worry about you If you gotta make a fool of somebody If you gotta to make a fool of someone Do you really have to hurt me? I'm the one t...

As the snow flies On a cold and gray Chicago mornin' A poor little baby child is born In the ghetto And his mama cries 'Cause if there's one thing that she don't need It's another hungry mouth to feed In the ghetto People, don't you understand A child needs a...

Jeremiah, maybe I have seen eternity Right out loud the distant clouds have talked to me Jeremiah tell me how you came to prophesy Can you seen the second coming in the sky 'Cause I've been here and you've been there and glory's all around Have you heard the s...

Pray tell, Jessye' Lisabeth Tell me why you're weeping Pray tell, Jessye' Lisabeth When you should be sleeping What secret are you keeping Jessye' Lisabeth, pray tell What could cause such bitter tears What lesson has life taught you Hear me sweet and preciou...

Get up, lazy Willie, there's work to be done Out of seventeen kids, you're the laziest one Pigs in the kitchen and the roosters in the pig stye Weeds in the garden busy growin' up knee high Lazy Willie, look at you, ain't you a sight Tuh tuh twee tuh twee dee...

Let me be a little kinder Let me be a little blinder To the faults of those about me Let me praise a little more Let me be when I am weary Just a little bit more cheery Think a little more of others And a little less of me Let me be a little braver When tempta...

Well, I wake up in the morning With my hair down in my eyes And she says hi and I hurry to the breakfast table While the kids are going off to school, goodbye And she reaches out and takes my hand And squeezes it and says "How you feelin' hon?" And I look acro...

Can't seem to settle down Maybe I'll just hang around But every time you pick me up I guess I take you down But here I am again You'll take me back and then It won't be long till I'll be gone Upon my way again So I spend my days thinkin' up new ways To do the...

At first Mom and Poppa called the little girl a lady They raised her on the banks of a river bed A house boat tied to a big tall tree A home for my poppa and my momma and me The clock strikes three Poppa jumps to his fee Already Moma's cookin' Poppa som...

Marigolds and tangerines And lots of rusty window screens Funny Paper, fountain pen And patchwork things to cover in Puppy dogs and potpourri Oh won't you come and live with me Tambourine and tape machine And clippings from a magazine No commitments, no deman...

Oh stepmama, what do make you so mean? Mmm stepmama, what do make you so mean? Why, you're the meanest spiteful woman This baby girl has ever seen? Mmm mmm stepmama, interceptin' U.S. mail Caught you stepmama, interceptin' U.S. mail And all the time you're roc...

Last Friday I received your letter It said your book was overdue And you'd be by to pay your five cent fine Within a day or two Since that day the time drags by Things just aren't the same For I don't want your five cent fine I just want to know your name, you...

M I double S I double S I double P I M I double S I double S I double P I Right in the middle of the cotton belt Down in the Mississippi Delta Wearin' last years possum belt Smack dab in the Mississippi Delta Have me a little that Johnny cake A little bit of...

With Glen Campbell Good mornin' mornin' glory Good mornin' what's your story Good mornin' where'd you spend the night Where did your night dreams take you Sorry but I had to wake you Oh I just had to make you Shed your precious mornin' light on me Oh good mo...

Down in Louisiana Down in Cajun land Folks got something goin' Goes something like Folks come an git'cha tootsie I wants to t'tie ya puppe'tame me Gonna dig ya on a scoobydoo Gonna gitcha on'a scubadie Ooh boog-a-boo you You ooh boog-a-boo you, little boy Get...

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...

La la la la la Ooh hey hey hey La la la la la Every year about this time the local gentry Have a meeting in Chickasaw land They all come to judge each and every entry That wants to try out for the Okolona band All the way from the Kosciusko Up from Biloxi Sh...

It doesn't seem so long ago when papa had his medicine show All the family had a part, I still know them all by heart Everywhere we traveled we sang that little song Just sold enough linament to barely get along One bottle, two bottle, three bottle, four Mama...

Papa won't you let me go to town with you Papa I'm feeling so down and blue You just gotta come around, please do Papa won't you let me go to town with you There's a blue dress at Dindy's I'd give the world to see again I need some hand lotion and some powder...

My man's over there on Parchman Farm Sittin' there on Parchman farm My man's sittin' there on Parchman Farm He ain't never done nobody no harm Puttin' that cotton in eleven foot sack Puttin' that cotton in eleven foot sack Puttin' that cotton in eleven foot sa...

In the morning sun when no one Will be drinkin' any more wine And I wake up the sun up by givin' him A fresh air full of the wind cup And I won't be found in the shadows hangin' so low I can wait for fate to bring around to me Any part of my tomorrow, tomorrow...

Penduli pendulum Swing around, beat the drum In July, I'll deny The illusion I'll be gone, beat the drum There I go, here I come And goodbye means good try No conclusion Pendulum Like perfect rhyme Always in predicted time Penduli when will I learn Departure...

Raindrops keep fallin' on my head And just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed Nothin' seems to fit Those raindrops are fallin' on my head, they keep fallin' So I just did me some talkin' to the sun And told him I didn't like the way he got things...

First day in August Last rain was in May When the rainmaker come to Kansas In the middle of a dusty day Said the rainmaker to the people "Donate what you're all prepared to pay" Said the rainmaker to the people "And I'll conjure up a rain today" Ninety degrees...

She licks her finger and dampens her eye To make people think she is crying For all around her are tear-sorrowed faces But she is too young to know dying Outside the window tree branches sway down Long glassy fingers sweep snow-covered ground While inside a wo...

I had a most distressing dream last night I dreamed I was a crystal bird Caught in perpetual flight I'd ascend and glide and descend and ride On the wind and never alight I had a most distressing dream last night Glass enclosed, exposed wherever I flew With...

Mama, can I huh, mama, can I huh, huh Can I mama, won't you please let me, mama can I, huh That's the sweetest little dress, Sally where'd you get the pattern? Made me one just like it out of yellow dotted swiss Yes, I guess we got the earliest garden in...

Are you going to Scarborough fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme Remember me to one who lives there Who once was a true love of mine Tell her to make me a cambric shirt Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme Without no seams or needlework Then she'll be a true...

Let me set the mood, set the situation Imagine that your sittin' in a congregation Hey, he's talking 'bout judgment day If you listen real close, hear what he say You may run on for a long time Run on for a long time May run on for a long time But let me tell...

You know you got me where you want me And you can treat me any old way I know you treat me mean just to taunt me But I'll do anything you say I'll do anything just to be around you, baby Even though you treat me cruel You tell all your friends I'm such a fool...

When you just give love And never get love You'd better let love depart I know it's so, and yet I know I can't get you out of my heart You made me leave my happy home You took my love and now you've gone Since I fell for you Love brings such misery and pain...

I'm just sitting pretty watching the flowers grow Beneath my window Oh just feeling my oats and coasting mostly As they say Can you come out and play? I'm just feeling silly lovin' the feeling so In my big toe Oh, just watching the ceiling Reeling, stealing th...

Come run, jump, skip along, Sam A very happy good mornin' man I know you're well and you're doin' fine It kind of puts at rest my mind How's your brush and your lady fair? And not to mention your stain glass stair? Flower pot on the window sill On the top of H...

Slow cookin'... Let me add a little spice to your life, Serve it up and make it feel real nice Slow, fancy lookin'... There are things you can't learn from a book Come into the kitchen and I'll show you how I cook [Chorus:] When you want your love to last, co...

Why? How could you fall this time? Fall for that same old line? A line I know you've heard from me at least a hundred times But here I am again You'll take me back and then It won't be long till I'll be gone Upon my way again What's somebody like you Lovin' so...

There's something in the way he moves Looks my way and calls my name It seems to leave this troubled world behind If I'm feeling down and blue Troubled by some foolish game He always seems to make me change my mind And I feel fine anytime he's around me now He...

Billy-Ray was a preacher's son And when his daddy would visit he'd come along When they gathered round and started talkin' That's when Billy would take me walkin' A-through the back yard we'd go walkin' Then he'd look into my eyes Lord knows to my surprise Th...

Ooh, I gotta see you somehow Not tomorrow, but right now I know it's late, but, honey, I can't wait So come on steal away Please, steal away Now don't start thinking Trying to make up your mind Everybody's sleeping so let's not waste no time I know it's late b...

You were the sunshine, baby whenever you smiled But I call you stormy today All of a sudden that ol' rain's fallin' down And my world is cloudy and gray You've gone away Oh, stormy, stormy, bring back that sunny day Yesterday's love was like a warm summer bree...

Blackberry pickin' time Lord knows that I'm ready to go With sweet country Joe Like the berries on the vine Ripe and ready, I want to go With sweet country Joe His eyes are colored like the sky And his hair is colored like the hay Some folks think he's kind of...

I want you to meet me at my houseboat Be sure and wear your little black rubber rain coat Write you a letter on thin lined note paper Hide it in the tree where the houseboat float Pulled a pully bone and make a fat wish Crawdad in the skillet, gonna catch a ca...

You've got a way of making me blue You've got a way of hurtin' me too Oh, what a terrible tangled web we weave Don't we? Well, you've got a gentlemen on the side And you've got a friend that you're trying to hide Oh, what a terrible tangled web we weave Don't...

Day after day, alone on the hill The man with the foolish grin Is keeping perfectly still But nobody wants to know him The can see that he's just a fool And he never gives an answer But the fool on the hill Sees the sun going down And the eyes in his head See...

Took the Continental Trailways 'Cause I didn't have the fare To get from Cincinnati to Los Angeles by air The guy who said he'd meet me In a shiny limousine With a contract in his pocket Turned out to be a queen He could not see my body Or appreciate my good...

Thunder in the afternoon Lightnin' dancin' to the tune Let it rain Ooh, let it rain Lyin' warm beside me there Lovedrops glistnin' in your hair Ooh, let it rain, baby, let it rain Stormy lover, your wet lips shinin' Let your body move with mine And let it rain...

I was born in a bunk Mother died and my daddy got drunk Left me here to die or grow In the middle of Tobacco Road Grew up in a dusty shack And all I had was a'hangin' on my back Only you know how I loathe This place called Tobacco Road But it's home The only l...

I want you to tell me why you walked out on me I'm so lonesome every day I want you to know that since you walked out on me Nothing seems to be the same old way Oh, think about the love that burns within my heart for you The good times that we had before you w...

We all pull the load We all pull the load We gotta get up early in the morning 'Cause we all pull the load Well, you can find you a world full of bother And talking to your good neighbor 'Cause he ain't interested in favors No, in the road that he's gotta hold...

Bill, I love you so, I always will I look at you and see the passion eyes of May Oh, but am I ever gonna see my wedding day Oh, I was on your side Bill when you were losin' I'd never scheme or lie Bill, there'd been no foolin' But kisses and love won't carry m...

Not really often, you understand But now and then I get to thinkin' 'bout you and me Rememberin' how it used to be And sometimes, what I'd give For us to be in love again Isn't that a silly thing to say? But sometimes I really feel that way And it makes me fee...