Bobbie Gentry - Bugs [HD]

Bobbie Gentry sings 'Bugs' from her hit 1967 Capitol album 'Ode to Billie Joe'. The lyrics are below with comments about the album and singer.

Note: The video shows images of some of the bugs mentioned in the song and other scary looking ones.

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Bugs (Singer: Bobbie Gentry)

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
Dirt-dauber busy building a nest
The red wasp's gonna swoop down and get your child
Won't give you a minutes rest

(She's talkin 'bout) Bugs!

Everywhere you look there's another kind of bug
Makes you want to get a club and clout 'em
Yes everybody's talking 'bout the worrisome bug
But ain't nobody doing nothing about 'em

Shooing the flies away from the table
Hiding under the quilting bed
The chiggers running wild in the blackberry bush
An' yellow jackets swarmin' round your head

They're coming to get your watermelon
Black ants marching in a long line
They're lurking in the leaves of the strawberry patch
And climbing up the tomato vine

(She gonna tell you 'bout) Bugs!

Everywhere you look there's another kind of bug
But if ya live in the delta ya got 'em
Here's a sure-fire way to pass the time of day
Fold you up a newspaper and swat 'em

Hey look at me with the DDT
Umm hmm hmm, umm hmm
Ain't they a mess, them worrisome pests
Umm hmm hmm, umm hmm

Songwriter: Bobbie Gentry
[Lyrics from LyricFind]

Wikipedia states:

Ode to Billie Joe is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Bobbie Gentry. It was released on August 21, 1967, by Capitol Records.

Despite performing regularly with her mother in the mid-60s, Gentry’s sole ambition originally was to write songs to sell to other artists, telling the Washington Post that she only sang on the recording of "Ode to Billie Joe" that she took to Capitol because it was cheaper than hiring someone to sing it. Gentry also brought "Mississippi Delta" to Capitol on the same demo tape and it was this recording, rather than "Ode to Billie Joe", that initially got her signed.

In the issue dated September 2, 1967, Billboard's review said, "This album, based on the phenomenal single, "Ode to Billie Joe", has got to be one of the top albums of the year. Bobbie proves to be much more than a flash in the pan. Each of her emotional ballads are standouts — especially the haunting "Hurry Tuesday Child". And Miss Gentry's uptempo jazz waltz, "Papa, Won't You Take Me to Town with You", could step out as a single."

Bobbie Gentry (born Roberta Lee Streeter; July 27, 1942) is a retired American singer-songwriter, who was one of the first female artists in America to compose and produce her own material.

Gentry rose to international fame in 1967 with her Southern Gothic narrative "Ode to Billie Joe". The track spent four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was third in the Billboard year-end chart of 1967, earning Gentry Grammy awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1968.