MISSISSIPPI DELTA
(Bobbie Gentry)

Recorded by : Bobbie Gentry; Ted Roddy; Shocking Blue.


M I double S I double S I double P I.
M I double S I double S I double P I.
Right in the middle of the cotton belt,
Down in the Mississippi Delta,
Wearin' last years possum belt,
Smack dab in the Mississippi Delta.

Have me a little that Johnny cake,
A little bit of that apple pan dowdy.
Picking them scuppernon's off that vine.
Chigger bite, it's goin' to beat howdy.

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.

One-ree-o-ree-ee-reeanni.
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      M I double S I double S I double P I.
      M I double S I double S I double P I.
      Right in the middle of the cotton belt,
      Down in the Mississippi Delta,
      Wearin' last years possum belt,
      Smack dab in the Mississippi Delta.

Sittin and scratchin' mosquito bites.
Old fox done give him the slip.
Watchin' the mornin' glories grow,
In Biloxi on an overnight trip.

I bet five dollars to win two bits,
Eat a peppermint stick on Sunday.
Ain't no use in'a hurrying up,
Can't leave till a week from Monday.

One-ree-o-ree-ee-reeanni.
Fidderliss-farce-nickory-john-queery-quan.

In the Mississippi Delta,
Miss-iss-siss-ippi Delta.