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All my friends are wasted az lyric1/17/2024 I'm sure some people will think "poetic license" or that I'm being too literal about the song, but I think this kind of song should be grounded in plausible facts. Just a small detail but it surprised me to suddenly realize after knowing this song for decades that maybe Bobbie Gentry got a little careless in the interest of finding a good rhyme (spring, anything). died last spring." It's still spring! I suppose they could be early into summer of 1954, but then then it should probably be "this spring." Even then, a recent spring death might be arguably too recent to portray Momma as long-term inconsolably listless. If it's before June 21,1954 then it seems impossible that "Papa. So the narrator is telling her story about a year later in 1954. Papa caught it and he died LAST SPRING." I wonder, which spring is that? Billie Joe died in late spring (June 3) a little over a year ago ("a year has come and gone"). There was a virus going 'round papa caught it, and he died last springĪnd now mama doesn't seem to want to do much of anything." "A year has come and gone since we heard the news 'bout Billy JoeĪnd brother married Becky Thompson they bought a store in Tupelo
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