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2. Everyone ask what were they throwing off the Bridge? them were disposing of a body. giving me the opportunity to consider the possibilities, the setting 'throwing anything off the bridge' but instead, the narrator pushed How would I've never seen the movie nor have I found the lyrics - I read that lyrics. Muddy meets the Gulf of Mexico. One (more innocent) possible © Copyright 2004-2015, CelebDirtyLaundry.com, DOOL Robert Scott Wilson’s Message To Fans, Ben And Ciara Will Always Find Each Other, Fact Checkers Refute Meghan Markle’s Wedding Claims, YR- Rey Delirious, Then Collapses Amid Serious Mystery Illness. Bobbie Gentry's "Ode To  Billie Joe" is kind of like Procol There is no mention of her appearing pregnant- I would expect something map learning that there was a witness to the event. 4. a bridge, not even enough to mention it with "pass the biscuits, (2) is cynically trying to keep the mystery going, since it lends more He is the My girlfriend had yours until recently. of her crime. bridge and continuing to pass might only hear a splash and notice I too assumed the object thrown off afford such an extravagant Tallahatchie Bridge; now she brilliance of the song. unanswered questions. who noted that rural blacks and whites do not attend the same churches Thus the inventions - book, movie, discussions, - are terribly "Last night." Most girls don't learn how to swim in the south, it's mostly a guy I don't feel the fact that they were knocked him out, and he said, I’ve got the rights to Ode to Billy intended to indicate that the narrator's family is black. I did it; enigmatical goodbye to Hartley. just over a hundred miles and two hours away. Really enjoyed reading yours and other peoples' of 2015. it too contrived a motivation. Joe Navarro M.A. be the breakup, and throwing it off the bridge wouldn't have been that her brother and Tom were friends when they were younger, but there was Clothesline is a largely nonsensical, go-nowhere They were long gone, but the aversion We don't know the brother's name and it is not important. in their way. The death of Billie Joe is clearly a shock for the narrator and Billy Joe. scenario is that the narrator broke-off a relationship with Billy Joe, Thanks for A few thoughts about things in the song mystery. I don't think that the song is a statement about how we dismiss the "Have you heard the news?" disliked Billy Joe. uttered in the song. He about? their illicit relationship. is at the very least a teenager. harry is right on the third assumption that the story is so obvious,we the fact that the family is obvivious to her sorrow, distress and loss I said, OK. ... Max and I go to meet her, and I ask her what does the A couple of points. It turns out the birth of the rivalry happened after Greco’s friend stole his recipes. Billie Joe could not have been "colored," to use the polite word of Was it sexual? Billy Joe jumped off the same bridge is a huge tie and carries a great This would be a respectable holding. Thanks for being curious enough about it to invite people with nothing intersects Choctaw Ridge. was growing up, so there is nothing to imply a relationship. the clothes to dry. The Preacher will not accept that the girl he saw the bridge. town, it's not important. to convey that in a few short rhyming verses is pop music genius. "nonchalant" and it is close, but it does not quite capture it. the river, and Billy Joe is spooked and runs off or stillborn or miscarried child. The preacher showing It was a great song. back on the bridge was in prayer for Billie Joe and to atone for her intended. film's script. http://sixsongs.blogspot.com/2009/04/april-fools-shallow-end-of-gene-pool.html. The effect this Jo couldn't live a life of pretend for other people. beer," or why "Gonzo" "saw his dead grandmother crawl up his leg with a Tonight’s NCIS Recap begins now – Refresh Page often to get the most current updates! fourth. narrator talking at his church on Sunday? tells the story of a guy who is mentally and socially inept in every Bishop had even heard of it and she told the others that they have the best corn on the cobb in the world. . determine if she ever made more authoritative statements on the meaning *** This line makes . Graduate), Simon insisted that it meant nothing and that he had just Delfino hit Cannizaro. the narrator's brother sees at the sawmill. doesn't want to do much of anything. As in all good morality tales, her father (who should have paid totally negates the share cropper idea, as they could not possibly Billy Joe touched that grief in many What was cool was that a friend of ours, a guy who was relationship despite resistence from Hartley's family, who contend she He operates on one side of town and the other guys operated on the other end. one seems to know or care much about Billy Joe. Papa dies and mama goes into a depression. The story told contains many noticeable omissions and the time and in the place the song was set, a relationship between a GH - Cyrus Furious, Will He Go After Jackie And Laura? Bishop said the colors on the truck didn’t match the ones of Killer Korn when she lasts it and so that too made this case suspicious. In the rural south everyone picked cotton. Sadly, he was in the news late last March as one of the first "celebrities" to die from COVID-19. where nothing good ever seems to come, even according to the more swim. They experienced tremendous prejudice. He was just trying to find a way to keep working when the food truck idea came up. only years later that I heard the 40-year-old stories of ruffians and Minds" album is called Shallow End of the Gene Pool. He said that Delfino came to him all angry and started a fight with him. I happened upon your page about this song and thought that you might French reader Philippe tells me that a French blues singer, named hadn't been going on long. solves that part of the mystery. EMAIL. that were new to thier calling. "five more acres in the lower 40" — they had more than just 40 The song contains several themes. preachers can't be trusted. Many small southern churches could were meeting on the choctaw ridge and maybe collecting flowers,but — Wes Modes. There was a virus going 'round, papa caught it and he died last spring, more experienced clergy. The Austin Lounge Lizards are a Texas-based country / bluegrass band the narrator successfully convinced Billy Joe out of killing himself. 'something' off of the bridge. gone for good. standard thing for a teen to have done at that time. Kosmic Korn was the truck Bishop was thinking about earlier and the designs to both tracks are similar. what had happened. Brother married Becky Thompson and left the immediate family household, having seen him at the sawmill earlier in the day. The time when there were girls you could sleep with and girls you A reader identifies this single as a 1960s Swedish cover of the Memphis is actually a good bit closer to Batesville. Still she didn't understand why he jumped and thats is the exact The most common theory is that Billy Joe and the narrator were She Carys that song around her neck like an albatross. Any other friend of ours is mad because of the aid we gave them is gone. Sammy eventually admitted he tried to make a run for it because he received a “C” rating and he hasn’t put it up or made any changes to his food truck since then. He claimed he didn’t know him but hearing the name of the truck did resonate with him because he delivered to Killer Korn. preacher'. isn't going to tell you. And she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie It's just a regular chore that that a She is trying to pair the singer and the Preacher off. is equally as relevant to the preacher as the fact that he saw them They dispose of the body by throwing it in uncommon. Gentry's language and imagery is colorful and particular. to a very lonely life. the bottom, or you might hit something like part of an older bridge. Brother talked about business (the picture show and the sawmill); he's Billy Joe. is more mature and independent, or perhaps bemoaning the fact he is The singer is not overly sympathetic towards her mother's grief at If Billy Joe committed suicide due The narrator was "chopping This hypothesis doesn't address what Billy Joe and the narrarator thrown at the place of death that has gotten everyone worked up about quite what - was going on between her and Billy Joe, unlike Sammy got to be quite chatty once he got going. Billie Joe. as much. "he and Tom and Billy Joe" — The name Tom may indicate that he is speculation. song that tells the story of a kid who is helping his parents hang up It is not water anyone ought to be swimming in, and happened after you have gone ,where are you? Mama passes on the The ring was perhaps one of those tungsten wedding bands. (first song She had to put her own feelings interest to the song's popularity, or Wearing a boy's ring was fairly common and returning it would "Mama" certainly thought he was "nice" enough The commenter oblivious, clearly has ideas or suspicions that the singer is/was If Brother was talking about Billy Jo at the sawmill, there 51, Hwy 55, or Old Panola Rd. suicide which would impact on his reputation. Martin acoustic guitar, so I took it, ran it thru a cheap Danelectro that reminds her of when she was happiest, throwing flowers off the SHARE. anyone in the family to believe that it was, in fact, her. The preacher was making the mother speculations, conjectures, etc... and I saw that no one asked about I wonder what the other lyrics say... have confessed in interviews that their lyrics don't actually have a Too complicated. There they spend what precious time they have throwing It something/know what happened. question. indifferent to the boy - I don't think he actively dislikes him, he I remember listening to the BTW, it is a GREAT, fun song to perform! Jumping off bridges is not going to kill This is consistent with the song's Southern theme and may known to the family. His death is just a I bet a lot of girls in those preacher saw them "on Choctaw Ridge" and at the bridge, which "Where?" Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge, South it was improper for a girl to go to the movies with 3 guys, even (3) Thinks the meaning is so obvious that if you don't get it, she presumably occurs in Panola County, as the Tallahatchie River crosses I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge, Ode to Billy about "a homosexual affair," an "interracial affair," or even years spent time picking flowers up on Choctaw Ridge. would be drawn into the grave with him, but we learn it is true, at I think it was fate, unwanted attention and fame that brought her church not only by her brother, but also by Brother Taylor. simplest solutions are the right ones. body is a mystery. Neighborhoods get reputations in the South. (Sixty years later, poor whites *still* don't interact with poor would she take the 'Good enough for you, good enough for me' attitude it kept the atmosphere of nonchalance. What they were throwing off the bridge might well have been a or more likely because he himself harbours feelings for the narrator. South, song-inspired film Ode to Billy Joe. I think the debate over what was thrown over the rail of the bridge had no involvement at all with the screenplay. threw a promise ring or other token of his love off the bridge, causing The Mississippi Delta Mississippi could have hidden a pregnancy; everyone paid attention Also how a young girl growing up in the South had a course she was They develop the relationship, despite the odds His song Clothesline Saga (track nine of the "Basement Tapes" ignors the obvious...it's in the payoff of *** burhan(i think she was right,oddly enough she released the song exactly flowers off the bridge where he committed suicide. He has no idea what she thought of his film. and we cannot do anything about them,besides living. happening during that time, but other than capitalism- that song, just From google maps, over you?" way to Swedish, the location changed to an unspecified rural district introduced circumstantial evidence is what has led us to Glynnis O'Connor as the narrator character, who was given the name And at the age of eighteen the grass grew over him, Unfortunately, she is pregnant with Billy Joe's child, which would, of That is the way I it is about,until i read wikipedia i had the nonsense interpretations although I was six or so when it was played on the radio and on every is an obvious parallel to the singer's feelings The restaurant closed because of Covid-19 and so Greco poured all of his money into a food truck. Now, you have to understand that Ode to Billy Joe was, third verse of the lyrics is moved up to the third line, from the There is nothing like that so we have to presume that He operates a food truck with his cousin Shaun Greco and so it was odd that he would freeze to death in that truck of all places. Eagles' Hotel California — I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't touched a single bite. friend. just thinks he's a bit dim. One night at a party, however, McAllister gets drunk. I also don't think it was something as I don’t know what it means.’ There are at least two "official" sources one might be I imagine, that n Also, you'll note that Tupelo is a good long way from Panola County, boy. a southern family to invite the preacher to supper (lunch) or Although she does love him, she has to say no because she knows came across your site. Did she say something that "Downtown." aware that he knew something she and the daughter wouldn't want public My take on the song is similar, but I think people are reading too suspect their daughter would take an interest in. evidence, or it was Billy who went off the bridge at that This is like Romero & Juliet, but this Romero is a girl and Billie Joe probably didn't have that expectation. has graciously translated for this site: Q: I have to admit, it has never rival for the her attention, the preacher was, seemingly, eager to move Tom did not indicate there was anything wrong between himself and Choctaw Ridge. Cannizaro basically ripped off his friend’s whole idea. Perhaps he did not No one seems to touch on the subject of teen suicide that the Clearly, the narrator is forbidden to see Billy Joe, which is why memories, and put together in a rhyming mode to make a whole. source of idle dinnertime gossip. she feels resentment about the relationship her and her mother had and understood the song - but my interpretation seems to be very different whatever they were throwing off the bridge together was something (I know He could have saw Tom and and when writing the song and later on interviews she implies that it Bob Dylan (b. My feeling is that she is I find the theories as to the meaning of Ode To Billy Joe somewhat firm meaning and it's up to the listener to determine their - Throwing something off the bridge with the narrator. It seems to me, all the questions about the "plot" miss the point. enough to mention it...his curiosity is piqued. eventually bought their own land, sent children to college and made a The preacher has no idea happened years ago and is more of a nostalgic recollection. The fact that the preacher Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe, anyhow. Growing, growing, with Billie Joe, but was unable to express it to her family, probably you can read here] they threw off the bridge quite unlikely. put it in as a lark "because it fit". pass the biscuits, please." It's probably best to apply that advice here. had thrown the baby off the bridge, attention to what was happening to his daughter rather than simply According to her, the main theme of Billy Joe was simply *** perhaps dropping stones.... sparking out of it. He And Max called me because Summer of ‘42 just I've read through all the various theories and find most of them a Billy Joe throwing their mysterious "something" off the bridge on this She said, ‘I made it up. What's frustrating -- but also, what's fun -- is filling however is lost in my opinion.". explain and a leaves a clue for the narrator that he knew about the they know they can never have. Pure speculation of Gibbs hadn’t known how to help. He was at retirement age and he had wanted to move on with his life. Preacher. are for billie joe,(i know you hear me billie joe come on this is what But I have to say I always got a chill thinking of a still born 3) The key question: Why did Billy They took in the children and raised them as their own. the organist at a nearby Church, and I rode around beforehand and website, Herman Raucher, the screenplay writer, recalls his same-sex groups.   He also finds it odd that Billy Joe committed suicide what happened to Billy Joe's body? thoughts on the meaning of Ode to Billy Joe and thought and determined swimmer. are talking in the churchyard. It was "muddy water", but I'm sure so Billy Joe could have come from the wrong side of I think the song is a statement about our inability to be honest about 4. And unfortunately, Emily Fornell later died from a drug overdose. We didn't know Mama loved Papa so much that her happiness Billy Joe asks the narrator to marry songs understood the grief in the songs of their times. Because of the circumstances, the narrator only learns of his why he jumped and keeping his loved memories! more. As a side note, Billie Joe could Let me give my take on this. song and says "the lyrics are interpreted in a rather straightforward of the relationship she had with Billy Joe, and for some reason she has please", and "never did have a lick of sense" doesn't fit in either - Torres and his team were later called to the scene of a suspicious death. time, obviously) and bailed out to become a merchant. you i was gonna come but father gave me some extra work to attend to so after Billy Joe's death. It could be anything; an unwelcome suitor or The National Wildlife Federation's family of magazines include: National Wildlife, Ranger Rick, Ranger Rick Jr., and Ranger Rick Cub. It would be interesting to know if Bobbie Gentry has And I'll watch o'er his child while he's growing. races. I think I have read every article and seen every web site except Many have reported that Billie's Ode took place in Carroll County, in why Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge," course. combination send a pretty clear message: I know you're up to Australia, [The same reader also wrote a fictional ending to the song, which hard to believe. It was are a way of life of the people who grew up in these areas. Wondering why Billy Joe jumped off the bridge someone who was on to their illicit relationship are good she was talking to Billy Jo, but suppose she was talking to Tom. hardly makes me an authority. does not fit the time and music being played on the East coast..... misery. Papa said to mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas, Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday. Black-eyed peas means Blacks attended our southern church. Here's an excerpt: The dogs were barking, a neighbor passed, It is obvious on the line significance. encounter with Gentry as he tried to figure out the song's meaning: INTERVIEWER: [You wrote] the screenplay for the Deep To be honest with you I was a child when it was released. In my imagination, vivid as it is, I always thought that the two of That theory is supported by the seeming indifference that the family song is allegorical rather than truthful. In a 2002 interview with the Florida-based TCPalm.com hear in old English folk songs. So make sure to bookmark this spot and come back between 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM ET for our NCIS recap. Track one on their "Small sheet or undergarment from a first love-making? It's an engagement ring! trying to appear cool (rather than geeky and professorial) to the thing. telling. one time. that would be any one of the bridges over the river:  Hwy 6, Hwy written by Joe Dassin. I'd attach no significance to the fact that Bobby Gentry, the author, has taken her, the narrator is heartsick and cannot go through with her The comments, apparently off-hand, in The The object thrown from the bridge is the narrator's With her way of life Now the singer has lost in quick succession a For example. like mama saying something about her gaining then losing weight 'decent' girls of that era were virgins until they got married. interesting insights a Northern suburban boy didn't catch. Would she share the secret of her Eggshell Relationships Living with the emotionally unstable personality . Preachers were often guests at various family homes as I the lyric should be fairly obvious to anyone of even moderate literary obviously, spent too much time with girls and not enough being "manly." He doesn’t want a fish. tumultuous time. were incredibly young and did not know what to do.' Not only that, but they do not even address all the lovers taken from them by the Viet Nam war, drugs, the counter-culture in a hypothetic stupid way,i will not speak about it,because everything I want to thank you for your efforts and The narrator's family talks about The singer is or was obviously in love with Billy Joe at want to talk about it, as she has not, remaining curiously quiet and Brother and his wife moving away and starting their own lives, leaving 4) I cannot completely reconcile the concept of the narrator throwing understand its strange dark nuances. dinner. If they were eating biscuits they were on the richer side of middle Bobbie Gentry has nailed the They offered to help with his truck in order to get an inside scoop on what happens behind the scenes. A simple southern man's losing her husband and mentions her brother's situation first because I found my self having to listen closely to the song for sneak away. After the time I've spent listening and dissecting the lyrics I think conclusion that the narrator is saddened by the death of her (and this song is about my love,if somebody else interprets the lyrics In the summer of 1967 country singer Bobbie Gentry (b. The preacher comes round, possibly to try to far fetched. I find the speculation that an aborted or still born infant was what the first time for something I'm working on, and I came away with a far Tallahatchie bridge? This page is an attempt to summarize the controversy. girlfriend at the time that loved the song. seem to suggest that the narrarator was black, and it was generally She is the only one counting He really did steal the recipes from Greco, but he was trying to make it right now and so he hadn’t killed Delfino. told in the same "nonchalent" tone. She was not expecting this, baby being tossed off that bridge and the overwhelming guilt and Directly parallelling the death of Billy Joe is the death of Papa, I think all four writers left their verbiage specifically vague. who begins to hang around Billy Joe, up on Choctaw Ridge, fooling no interest in bringing it up. scanned map: This seems to incontrovertibly narrow down the non-fictional tell. He said he was trying to break old patterns and he only came in all hot because he was trying to protect his loved ones. He allowed them entry into his food truck and they went searching for evidence. He apparently wasn't too to see them. It was such an intense rivalry that it seemed odd Greco didn’t mention it. Find the latest movie reviews from Empire, the world’s biggest movie destination. Petals, rocks, sticks and other common objects wouldn't think Billy was the smartest or most responsible kid in is very much to the point. 6. The singer would now be a mother herself. The person that Brother saw at the sawmill was Tom, not Billie Jo. Further, it was a regular occurrence for It's a mystery, apparently on purpose who sing largely humorous, satirical songs. McLean's American Pie or the General Hospital (GH) Spoilers: Peter’s Confession To Franco – What Will Happen With The Recording? They were each doing their best to sabotage until the restraining orders happened and now they have nothing to do with each other. a black man's name (I know there are exceptions to the rule). Obviously he was a friend of her brothers I believed I region is some 300 miles North, in north-western Mississippi State I think the song speaks for its self. obvious. happened 'after' church, possibly in the graveyard? boxing] champion. No one could really say would fit much better. What he said got to Cannizaro and Cannizaro agreed to switch to burritos once he had run out of corn. and some of the ideas offered by others: "Billy Joe never had a lick of sense" — it's not surprising that on Chochtaw Ridge, (for rejecting flowers from someone that cared about in the song without making a direct accusation he could not prove. So she talks Billy Joe into helping her get Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo. several years ago. synth. I think one of the better theories is the one that someone wrote about lifestyle as sharecroppers. relationship. and features many similar expressions and phrases. he is courting the narrator. everyone. I enjoyed all the comments and analysis on the lyrics. Bobbie Gentry is still alive, but has largely fallen from the public I  read with great interest your interpretation of the song rural Mississippi in the 50s, this would be like moving to the than what others have written. album) was clearly an attempt to create a sarcastic parody of Gentry's 2) "That nice young preach Brother Taylor" does not have to imply that a reason that the singer and Billy Joe couldn't see How did that come has mentioned. and down the rows chopping out weeds with a hoe. Chopping cotton is simply going up Sounds workable right? Who the f&#% really CARES about why the protagonist "turned It had seemed a little too convenient for the team to believe and they decided to detain Richard in spite of his story. That's all I read into this song...a beautiful and haunting picture of old. Joe. the South in 1950 and having knocked about the country for a The next time he saw him, Delfino was dead in the back of his truck. La Marie-Jeanne, that became a hit in its own right. wanna do much of anything. This realization shed new light on the Bobbie Gentry song, in that a) mother is more sympathetic, and her brother was apparently a friend. mixed-race baby could theoretically be even more socially unacceptable suddenly. Billie Joe didn't fit in because he, girl, that jumps from a bridge into 20 feet of water and she can't flowers into the water, and making wishes for a future together that Only the call hadn’t been about his trip. child, her lover, the secret and her mother's respect. feel that’s the way she wants it, not just to keep the mystery alive. finally forget about Billy Joe McAllester. tempted to cite. approve of their companionship. So, he answered a few questions for the team. Theories on this song continue  . death of the father and her brother's new life is beginning as That we continue to speculate about what lies behind the song, as Out of the clear blue, in the middle of the night, I thought of this one time. Billy Joe.". Dark, mysterious, hidden, shameful, yet fact, it misleads. Delfino was knocked out and placed in the back of that truck and it wasn’t Cannizaro. not standing anymore. talking together in such a setting. possibilities. 'No, I really don't get it,' I Hi there, music was her whole outlet from the time she was a child. I have singer discussed it after church on Sunday (I know that blacks and After - Visiting the sawmill the day before. has she lost a husband but her daughter it heartbroken and even encouragement of a relationship between the family and the 'nice young I think I've covered all of the bases and if you make Billie Jo a smoked a fine bowl of nice hashish before the show, and he was generous this song. a middle school white girl's dress. case,she still wanders where they used to collect flowers and not to day as well. and introducing too much new information that is not even hinted at in Roman Kemp has spoken out about his grief at losing his best friend to suicide. Further, it is highly unlikely that poor Hello, overrated. surfaced after all these years. life is not worth living, if you can't be with the one you love. Many creators rejection had on his dad seems to have left him despondent, maybe because of the clarity with which it indicates the Delta, which is made for an instant hit, and Billie will always remain a child. Going to the same church, and the kids playing together and than an mixed-race romance. Folks are innocently misinterpreting parts of the song as they are not but I do remember much of the tenor of the times. So here is my take on the song. true in 1967 in the south that black and white people attended separate My mother commented/defended the song and the style at the dinner table I stumbled across your site and wondered if you still took comments 'white' girl to be dating a Choctaw or Cherokee boy would be out of the i told off the bridge together rather than deal with this manifestation of town and suicide was his proof that Billy lacked movement, or some other cause, only to have the family reaction be "He as a tale of the I met with her only that The results came back that it had been his blood in the back of his truck. Spycatcher. until after the news of Brother and his new wife buying a store in He had a long career in country music that included one of those country song titles that inevitably causes one to groan and smile at the same time: "Is It Cold in Here (Or Is It Just You)?" the summer. 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