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That it was an actual event but it wasn't based on a true story though.

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Bobbie Gentry, who seemed to have penchant for morbid songs.

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It is a morbid song about death. everybody in the song except the narrator dies- the father or grandfather from a virus, the title character, a suicide. sick stuff.

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Ode to Billy Joe was a song released in 1967 and was sung by Bobbi Gentry. It became a number one hit in the United States and has gone on to be in the top 500 greatest songs of all time.

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Ode to Billy Joe was written by the woman who made the hit record, Bobbie Gentry. She won two GRAMMY Awards in 1968, for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

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Ode to Billy Joe - 1976 is rated/received certificates of: USA:PG


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