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And just a little bit off topic, does anybody know
exactly what is going on in the song, I've never been
quite sure

 

 

I'm pretty sure she jumped off a bridge.

But why?
And what was Billy Joe and the singer throwing off the
bridge

Mark
PS I think this thread is starting to fragment between
the 2 lists, any chance of us all getting back on one
list?
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> In a message dated 11/20/2007 4:01:57 A.M. Eastern
> Standard Time,
> markpringnz@yahoo.com writes:
>
> And just a little bit off topic, does anybody know
> exactly what is going on in the song, I've never
> been
> quite sure
>
>
>
>
>
> I'm pretty sure she jumped off a bridge.
>
>
>
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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.

Bernie

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Mark Pring
<markpringnz@...> wrote:

>
> But why?
> And what was Billy Joe and the singer throwing off the
> bridge
>
> Mark
> PS I think this thread is starting to fragment between
> the 2 lists, any chance of us all getting back on one
> list?
> --- lsf5275@... wrote:
>
> > In a message dated 11/20/2007 4:01:57 A.M. Eastern
> > Standard Time,
> > markpringnz@... writes:
> >
> > And just a little bit off topic, does anybody know
> > exactly what is going on in the song, I've never
> > been
> > quite sure
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm pretty sure she jumped off a bridge.
> >
> >
> >
> > ************************************** See what's
> > new at http://www.aol.com
> >
>
>
>
>

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--- 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

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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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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