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 1
Because I just did a bus stop dance to this, on the tube. 1
Country funk from 1967, no lie. A killer riff. This was the a-side to a hit b-side, "Ode to Billy Joe." 4
Where I'll be this weekend on my way to Oxford and Memphis.
This has been stuck in my head since someone mentioned influential books of your childhood elsewhere...