Remember the song "Ode to Billy Joe" ? Just what the heck were they th!
Question: Remember the song "Ode to Billy Joe" !? Just what the heck were they throwin' off the Tallahatchee Bridge !?
Somebody!.!.!.!.!.!.!.I've been puzzling over this little mystery for about 35 years !Www@Enter-QA@Com
Answers:
It is never stated what they threw off the bridge (it wasn't a doll, that was the movie, not the song)
Bobbie Gentry said that the point of the song was the callous way the suicide was discussed around the dinner table, not the suicide itself, or the events leading up to it, including whatever was thrown off the bridge!. Although there are many theories including a baby, a doll, etc!. Bobbie consistently refused to explain the song further (she has been living in seclusion not far from me in Southern California for years)!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Bobbie Gentry said that the point of the song was the callous way the suicide was discussed around the dinner table, not the suicide itself, or the events leading up to it, including whatever was thrown off the bridge!. Although there are many theories including a baby, a doll, etc!. Bobbie consistently refused to explain the song further (she has been living in seclusion not far from me in Southern California for years)!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Billy Joe committed suicide by jumping off (no reason given in song)!. The song ends with:
"And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge"
So, flowers were dropped to commemorate him!. Full lyrics in my source below!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
"And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge"
So, flowers were dropped to commemorate him!. Full lyrics in my source below!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
It was a doll!. It was a foreshadowing of Billy Joe's suicide!. Her doll was part of the innocence of youth and they were fooling around struggling when it fell into the water!. Billy Joe lost his innocence and struggled with that until he jumped into the water and killed himself!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Billy Joe Mcalister JUMPED off the Tallahatchee bridgeWww@Enter-QA@Com
Billie Joe jumped to his death!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
In the movie it was a doll they were kind of struggling with and it fell!.!.!.!.I think its been a long time since I seen it!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
I always thought they tossed a baby!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Flower petals!. You know, "She loves me, she loves me not"!.Www@Enter-QA@Com