What did Billy Joe throw, off the Talahachi Bridge?

Himself, I believe. If I remember the song correctly.

shmoopy

Shakey (the Original) true but before he did that he was caught throwing something off the bridge first.

Hmm, this is a PC Desktop customization website not a music website.


( to those who think I'm being rude.... this a statement made by jarget on a different thread)

he threw.....................something.

Some people say a rag-doll (as in the movie)...
Some people say an aborted baby....

Bobbie Gentry said she'd never tell...ever..

Ode To Billie Joe
Written by - Bobbie Gentry
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 Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge'

And Papa said to Mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas
'Well Billy 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 Billy Joe, anyhow
Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge
And now Billy 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 o' apple pie, you know it don't seem right
I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge
And now ya 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 Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge'

A year has come and gone since we heard the news 'bout Billy 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


Peff was right...it was somethin'

Koasati good one, you got me.
I was just bored that's why I posted that reply.

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 Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge'

For some reason this part of the song creeps me out.

Ive never heard this song before

it was his draft-card...

One of those little yellow Peeps. (You know, those candies? They're supposed to be marshmellow but they don't taste like marshmellow to me. They are rather creepy, really. I think the Peeps did away with Billy Joe, too. They are very sneaky.)

Koasati and feline.

He threw all his Playboy magazines because Billie Joe was gay.

Janice Joplins keys to her Mercedes Benz and after that she was never able to make amends. Wasn't that the night that the lights went out in Gerogia?


Even Janice did get arrested here in Tampa once

but why would he throw his Playboy away because he was happy?


*attempting to look innocent and child like*

*attempting to look innocent and child like*

One of my "Oldie but Goodie" favorites, how could anyone not have heard the song?

/me looks at Don Rivani and then realizes that it was a long time ago and he is getting old.

i think i already had arthritis way back when Billie Joe got the dropsies.

He threw this thread off the bridge because it was driving him crazy! Where is the Mr. Pukie Face icon when you really need him to make a point.

Chuckf1

Billy threw the Puke - ick-con off the bridge !!

You might say....he threw.........up

Peff !!

they trew pebbels not? or was it just SOMETHING