Bobbie Gentry - Mississippi Delta Lyrics

Baritone sax ❤️

Smart lady, good business head, her net worth today is an astounding $100,000,000.

Nikad prevazidjena.

Man, she is the coolest thing I've heard in a long time.

Listening to this song over and over makes me understand how passionate she would have been one on one.

I'm not sure they call crawfish crawdads in the mississippi delta but they might....doubt it....she moved to california at age 13 so she had plenty of time to culturalize to the other "california region." She was damn sexy and beautiful and curvy.....but I believe by 20 she would have been a californian.......so I believe she completely capitalized on being from mississippi....a place she might have had folks looking at her sideways in the Goldenstate. I am recently obsessed with the late 60s goddess. Her talent and creativity were larger than understood at the time time ! Maybe she ran out of creative ideas and gave up on the music industry.

We called them crawdads in Alabama where I grew up, so I imagine the word was in use in Mississippi also.

Holy moly, this rocks

As LaStrada said, they missed this one. As GL said, it RAWKED!!!

Dam , Bobbie Gentry was beautiful and underrated! This women had soul! I don't know really what the song is about.. but l dance my ass off when l play it! Bobbie come back, there's no good music no more!

Come back to us, Bobbie!

Love this song, grew up on Bobbie Gentry.

OOOOWWW my gawd......Wow!

tony joe white in woman

Bio sam vojnik i obožavao sam ovu pjesmu i Boobie!

she f'ng jams. got that southern electric blues

Makes wanna howl .

Ride, Sally, ride...

Das ist Musik in meinen Ohren, absolut Top. Habe ich damals, 1969, oft gehört und war begeistert. Alte Erinnerung
an eine schöne, sehr schöne Zeit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4GkjYifl6Q Shocking Blue has a cover of it too.

na wojnie bylem wtedy,,,

Kosciuszko jest,,, tam sie urodzila,,,

I like!

I would have loved to have seen her perform this with CCR on TV. This thing RAWKED! And yes this started out as the A side of "Billie Joe". I actually prefer "M Delta".

there is no voice more beautiful to me than Bobbie Gentry.

I see what you mean, but Dusty takes it for me

c etait res top a l epoque sympa a reentendre

But was recorded in LA

this is the muscle shoals sound from alabama.

1967：We danced while singing MISSISSIPPI DELTA in Redshoes Yokohama.

"Ate me a bucket of Muscadine
Sit on the riverbank after dark
Drop my line down a crawdad hole
Do him in with a scaly bark"

Hey Bobbie ! As w/ Tyler they don't seem 2 have your music at the surrounding stations where I live. R u interested in any information?

i love this song but i would call this Psychedelic southern country rock if that makes any sense....he,he,he :p

+wayevy4Jesus6302 I can dig it.

Yup Yup Yup." Sock it to me" _southern style_

The girl sure makes ya proud to be Southern, 

Hexx Bombastus I hope you're in a better place by now, I live in Texas and I enjoy Secular Talk and (sometimes) TYT, I am gay as well and was kicked out of my mother and fathers house because of it. I'm still proud to be southern though, being from country lands is something to be proud of. Not because of people and heritage, but for land and beauty of it. I live in San Antonio now with a liberal more accepting group of people, the southern culture of gay hating and exorcisms is dying out in most parts finally

Hexx Bombastus I grew up in a Pentecostal family, I was made to wear absolutely no jewelry no necklace no bracelet to tattoos no piercings and no shorts and no longish hair. We always made of you baptists because of how loose their rules were lmao I have no religion now, I don't believe anything

Tennessee checking in. Great voice and a Babe-Ola to boot!

Makes me WISH I was southern!!!

SoLas you fine...

The B side to Ode to Billie Joe!  

No "Ode to Billie Joe" was the B Side of Mississippi Delta

Amen. I live in Alabama and I know that for a fact.

I love Bobbie Gentry I remember Ode to Billie Joe real well as a kid.

I wish people would bring it back 

The Allman Brothers, the Grateful Dead, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Blackfoot & ZZ Top missed this one. They could have covered this brilliant song and rocked their audiences even further. Bobbie Gentry is probably the only female singer who could have cut it with any of those bands on their own turf and she was doing this stuff before they all did. 

Not only could she hold her own with any of them (and more,) she wrote most of her own material.

maybe even a singer of the time! Janis Joplin?

Eric Moore and the godz covered this one 🤘😃✌️

what is a delta? 
kirk..in canada
PS...GREAT SONG :-)

Brilliant so much raw emotion in her voice, I always feel I been to the Mississippi Delta when I hear her sing...

cool white (its allowed?)

I am ready to cancel my channel

Awesome video!!

shw was so fine

Happy Birthday Bobbie!!!

Good song.

I am a huge Bobbie Genrty fan I have been ever since I was 11 years old

I believe you are correct- this was the A side. A great rocker, but D-jays picked up on the powerful song on the B side and began playing it.

I think this was the 'A' side to 'Ode to Billie Joe'.

It was supposed to be until the producers put those strings under Ode and Ode became the A side

one of the best b sides ever

There is an episode of DESIGNING WOMEN where all the women sing this.

Love to hear this song again; what a swampy rocker

@bethanycat I believe it has roots in an old southern voodoo hex.

@c7i6abc no,,,Ode to Billie Joe was the "B" side of THIS song.....

When I was 16, this was one of my favourite songs. I always played both sides of my 45's and found a few great song that way.
This is the "B" side of Ode to Billie Joe. The "B" side of Indian Giver is Pow Wow, and if you spin the record backwards, you will it singing normally, singing Howdy Doody Time!

My sister and I used to sing this she was 6 I was 9! That's how we learned to Mississippi!

B-side of ODE TO BILLIE JOE, a monster track of its own kind. Should have been a A-side !!!!!!!!!!

It was the A side.

Researched the lyrics (could never understand all of them). Does anyone know the origins of this? "One-ree-o-ree-ee-reeanni
Fidderliss-farce-nickory-john-queery-quan"

this takes me back to the days of long hot summers and my mums record box, thank god she had good taste and i can still listen to these tunes with such joy

I own this album. Bobbies music is amazing!

Love The Bass Line

This song probably once had a place on the R&B charts. It's loaded with soul.

Fuck,this is goooood!

who ever arranged her music needs to take some credit.......

She produced it. I know this goes against the good ol' boy testosterone packed sausage fest in country music.

There`s a hard rock version by "The Godz" from Ohio also. They call this
song just "Mississippi".

I have never heard this before. What a great song. What an amazing artist!

killer song, bobbie belts it out

One of the greatest rock and rolls records ever.

I love Bobbie Gentry!

I hear you Nick!!! Miss her so much... I grew up in her hometown, and am looking forward to the day she comes back into the public eye....

This was the opening song for her show- REAL HOT! I was about 14! Anyone got a Time Machine?