"Swamp Witch," Jim Stafford (1973)

A gothic Southern novella, in song form

Peak: #39 on the Hot 100
Streams: 900,000

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Jim Stafford built an entire pop career out of sweaty Southern stories. I don’t mean sweaty in the sexual sense, though sometimes his songs were awfully flirty. I mean that Stafford specialized in the kind of music you expect to hear…