Exactly WHAT did Billy Joe throw off the Tallahachee Bridge?

[bertha katzenengel]

A ring?

A baby?

What?!

[Guava Jelly]

1. i think flowers

I spend a lot of time picking flowers up on Chocktow Ridge
And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahachee Bridge

[undeterred]

2. The flowers were to memorialize

the dead kitten which had to be thrown in the water after she told the Brazilian joke for the brazilianth time.

[bertha katzenengel]

4. Uh-oh. I done been told.

:blush: I am ashamed. Please spread the word. :blush:

:yoiks:

But in my defense - that was the first and only time I have ever told the brazilian joke.

[undeterred]

7. All are punished...

I only told it once too. :shrug:

[NNadir]

3. A thermonuclear weapon.

It didn't detonate. Therefore Billy Joe had to jump off the bridge to kill himself. He had planned to take the whole state of Mississippi with him.

[Lex]

5. Himself.

nt

[NNadir]

6. I used to play that song in an open Gm tuning at a lot of clubs.

It was a very esoteric version.

People used to come up to me and say "You know, I always hated that song." I took that a complement.

Later, whenever I played it, I'd announce it that way, and say, "People always tell me that they always hated this song."

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. Bobbie Lee's old rag doll

That nice young preacher Brother Taylor stopped 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

In the movie, Bobbie Lee and Billy Joe were fighting over the doll and it fell into the river.

And y'all gotta learn how to spell Suthuhn. :7

[Greyhound]

9. I can't believe you suckered me into this, but Billy Jo McAllister

Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge, so he threw himself off. Ok, what's the pay-off? Some really bad pun? You think that's punny?

[bertha katzenengel]

10. no suckering intended

i just always wondered what Billy Joe threw off. :shrug: