The Mellotron Group

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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