Mississippi Delta

Mississippi Delta

Mississippi Delta


From the 1974 album "Good Times"



Em7
M, I, double S, I,
Double S, I, double P, I.
A
M, I, double S, I,
                               Em7
Double S, I, double P, I.

A
Right in the middle of the cotton belt,
                                     Em7
Down in the Mississippi Delta,
A
Wearing last year possum belt,
                   Em7
Smack dab in the Mississippi Delta.


Em7      D      Em7 D . .
I had me a little red Johnny cake,
A little bit o' that apple pandowdy
Pickin' them scuppernongs off that vine
Chigger bite, it's goin' to beat howdy

A
Doing in the scaly bark
B
Anne-nick-and-john-feel-bay,
Em D Em D Em
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

instr.

Do him in with a scaly bark,
One-ree-yo-ree,
Anne-nick-and-john-feel-bay,
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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 year possum belt,
Smack dab in the Mississippi Delta.

I have me a little that Johnny cake,
A little bit of that apple pan dowdy,
Pickin' them scuppernon's drop that down,
Chigger bite of corn to beat howdy.

Do him in with a scaly bark,
One-ree-yo-ree,
Anne-nick-and-john-feel-bay.


 
 

By Bobbie Gentry

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