Name: Brother Taylor
Duration: P00H03M28S
Description: Taking issue with 'that nice preacher Brother Taylor' from Bobbie Gentry's Ode To Billie Joe. I don't trust the guy.

Brother Taylor

by Brett Every

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Taking issue with 'that nice preacher Brother Taylor' from Bobbie Gentry's Ode To Billie Joe. I don't trust the guy.

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BROTHER TAYLOR

Brother Taylor, what did you say
To mama when you came callin that day
Cause nobody need plant seeds in her head
Billie Joe is... dead

Brother Taylor, what did you mean
By what you had said bout what you had seen
Someone who looked like me, you said?
Billie Joe is...
Billie Joe is... dead

Brother Taylor, what did you spy
And why were you following Billie and I
Ain't you got better to do instead
Billie Joe is...
Billie Joe is...
Billie Joe is... dead

And nothing ever need be known
About nothing that was never thrown
Off no bridge, up on no ridge
Billie Joe, no

Brother Taylor, what will it take
For whatever’s hid to be kept that way
We were so in love, we were good as wed
But now Billie Joe is

Brother Taylor, how will we know
If downward he’s due, or upwards he’ll go
Oh and one more thing, Brother Taylor tell:
Where were you when Billie Joe fell?

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released July 13, 2012
Brett Every: guitars, vocal, acoustic bass
Belinda Crawford: vocals
Robin Dixon: cello-banjo
Stu West: harmonica
Lauren Allison: drums

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