What was Billy Joe McCalister throwing off of the Tallahatchee Bridge ?!
Question: From the song "Ode to Billy Joe"- Jennie C Riley
Answers: From the song "Ode to Billy Joe"- Jennie C Riley
The song doesn't say. A popular speculation at the time, though, was that Billy Joe and the narrator were having a secret affair, and the "something" they were throwing off of the bridge was their baby (either stillborn or aborted). Billy Joe then committed suicide out of guilt.
I thought he jumped off the bridge.
Himself - ''the day Billy Joe Macallister jumped off the Tallahassie Bridge'' no?
As a girl I thought it was a doll. But now that I'm grown, I think it must have been their baby. Or it was the symbol of the baby they aborted.
Himself.