So there! I always felt this song's nuvo-existential
lyrics in a somewhat Dali-esque fashion
showed a certain vapidity on the part of the song's
lyricist. This proves it beyond a doubt.
Thanks Rick.
Shall I start a 3rd group now?
Mark
--- Rick Blechta <
rick@rickblechta.com> wrote:
> --- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, "Bernie"
> <kornowicz@...> wrote:
> >
> > It was Billie Joe what did the jumpin'. They was
> throwin' flowers
> > off the Tallahachie Bridge together. They was
> datin', but her folks
> > didn't know it. Maybe sump'n happened twixt 'em
> and he couldn't
> > handle it.
>
> From Wikipedia: "In 1975, [Bobbie] Gentry told
> author Herman Raucher that she hadn't come
> up with a reason for Billie Joe's suicide when she
> wrote the song. She has stated in numerous
> interviews over the years that the focus of the song
> was not the suicide itself, but rather the
> matter-of-fact way that the narrator's family was
> discussing the tragedy over dinner,
> unaware that Billie Joe had been her boyfriend."
>
> So there! I always felt this song's nuvo-existential
> lyrics in a somewhat Dali-esque fashion
> showed a certain vapidity on the part of the song's
> lyricist. This proves it beyond a doubt.
>
> Rick
>
>
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