And there you have it. Frank's put paid to that account, so can we get
on to something important like an in depth analysis of Mrs. Brown You've
Got A Lovely Daughter?
john b
sf5275@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 11/20/2007 2:54:37 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> markpringnz@yahoo.com writes:
>
> And what was Billy Joe and the singer throwing off the
> bridge
>
> There is a narrator.
>
> Billie Joe was a guy who knocked up his girlfriend Who is the narrator
> . No one approved of him. He got the her pregnant and they were both
> outcasts. Her parent's wanted her to marry the preacher, but they were
> in love. She most probably either miscarried or the baby was born and
> they destroyed it to save her reputation. Billie Joe couldn't handle
> it and killed himself. He was from up on Choctaw Ridge (the bad side
> of town) and her father disapproved.
>
>
>
> ∗It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day
> I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hay
> And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
> And Mama hollered out the back door "Y'all remember to wipe your feet"
> And then she said "I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge"
> "Today Billie Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"
>
> And Papa said to Mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas
> "Well, Billie Joe never had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits, please"
> "There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow"
> And Mama said it was shame about Billie Joe, anyhow
> Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge
> And now Billie Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
>
> And Brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Billie Joe
> Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show
> And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night?
> "I'll have another piece of apple pie, you know it don't seem right"
> "I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge"
> "And now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"
>
> And Mama said to me "Child, what's happened to your appetite?"
> "I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't touched a single bite"
> "That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today"
> "Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way"
> "He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge"
> "And she and Billie Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie
> Bridge"
>
> A year has come 'n' gone since we heard the news 'bout Billie Joe
> And Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo
> There was a virus going 'round, Papa caught it and he died last Spring
> And now Mama doesn't seem to wanna do much of anything
> 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∗
>
>
>
>
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