Top Songs By Bobbie Gentry
Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Bobbie Gentry
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
John Wilkin
Composer
Rick Hall
Co-Arranger
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Rain on my Sunday shoes
Pick up the daily news
Looks like tomorrow's blues, but it's better than none
And call on the telephone
Knowin' that he's not home
I'll put on the Rolling Stones, and I can have me some fun
[Verse 2]
Start up a flight of stairs
Stand up and comb your hair
Try not to change things more than you can withstand
Get into somethin' new
That's made for a year or two
Pick up the pieces where you think they might lay
[Bridge]
Every day goes, another day's gone
Hate to say so, but I'm gettin' older day by day
[Verse 3]
Take off all your clothes
Stand up and wipe your nose
Cry for your daddy you lost so long ago
Jump on another plane
Today, it's all the same
You can catch me in Boston 'cause that's how it goes
[Verse 4]
I'm here in Apartment 21
Stop by and have some fun
Say, "How you doin', you old son of a gun?"
Look at a photograph
Lord, don't it make you laugh?
All those changes, what have we done?
And I say—
[Outro]
Sit down and write a song
Wait till the days grow long
Wait for the autumn wind to blow me away
Written by: John Wilkin