Golden Classics lyrics

Let It Be Me

Artists: The Everly Brothers (peak Billboard position # 7 in 1960)
Originally charted by Jill Corey at # 57 in 1957 and later by Betty Everett and Jerry
Butler (# 5 in 1964); The Sweet Inspirations (# 94 in 1967); Glen Campbell and
Bobbie Gentry (# 36 in 1969); and Willie Nelson (# 40 in 1982).

English Words by Mann Curtis and Music by Gilbert Becaud

I bless the day I found you

"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 last penny we had
to buy me a dancin' dress.

Well, Momma washed and combed and curled my hair,

Ode To Billie Joe

-Artist: Bobbie Gentry
-peak Billboard position # 1 for 4 weeks in 1967
-Words and Music by Bobbie Gentry

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

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 she said "I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge"
"Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"