The Story Behind Bobby Gentry's "Ode to Billy Joe" - performingsongwriter.com
Excerpt from this article:
"As Gentry told Fred Bronson, 'The song is sort of a study in
unconscious cruelty. But everybody seems more concerned with what was
thrown off the bridge than they are with the thoughtlessness of the
people expressed in the song. What was thrown off the bridge really
isn’t that important....the real message of the song, if there must be a
message, revolves around the nonchalant way the family talks about the
suicide. They sit there eating their peas and apple pie and talking,
without even realizing that Billie Joe’s girlfriend is sitting at the
table, a member of the family.'”
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How to Seek and Find the Lord, Part 1, by James Hamilton, The Street Preacher
How to Seek and Find the Lord, Part 2, by James Hamilton, The Street Preacher
(The text for these sermons is Acts 10:1-8)
