An contrarily upbeat song about man's inhumanity to man, Rancid's song is about the Ivory Coast in West Africa.

Laleh stays close to the beach in Bjuroklubb, a song that takes place in Västerbotten County, northern Sweden.

Bobbie Gentry has written one of the most talked about songs of the century. The mystery endures: what DID Billie Joe throw off the Tallahatchie Bridge?

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• Charlotte Walker from Littleton, CoThe book was fiction and so was the movie they made from the book. My English teacher used this song as an example of subtext. Her family was just having a normal dinner, while the girl in the song is silently grieving for her love. The subtext is that everyone was ignoring her feelings because that's just something that Southerners don't talk about. "Mama said to me, 'Child, what's happened to your appetite? I've been cooking all morning and you haven't touched a single bite...'"

Bobbie Gentry has written one of the most talked about songs of the century. The mystery endures: what DID Billie Joe throw off the Tallahatchie Bridge?

The perfect background music for that sun-drenched trip to the Florida Keys.