What did Billy Joe throw off the bridge...?
Wonder what ever happened to Bobbie Gentry ?
Beautiful woman.
Wonder what ever happened to Bobbie Gentry ?
Beautiful woman.
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29aholic
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Bobbie is often asked: "what was thrown off the bridge?"
She has never divulged the secret but usually answers: "suppose it was a wedding ring?"
She has never divulged the secret but usually answers: "suppose it was a wedding ring?"
THE PILGRIM
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It was in Memphis.
I was with my Bro and were returning to his apartment.
Just about the time he turned into his parking lot, the new to us song started.
He turned into his parking place and we sat there and listened to the rest of the song.
Then we looked at each other and said,
Something was thrown from a bridge?
I was with my Bro and were returning to his apartment.
Just about the time he turned into his parking lot, the new to us song started.
He turned into his parking place and we sat there and listened to the rest of the song.
Then we looked at each other and said,
Something was thrown from a bridge?
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Maybe it was a body. Watch, Forensic Files on YouTube and you may learn who it was, how they died, and how finding some obscure clue led to the murderer. 
If it was a wedding ring, I hope it wasn't worth what the one that baseball player Tim Tebow paid for for his fiancee, Demi-Leigh Nel- Peters, former Miss South Africa and Miss Universe 2017.
Experts have estimated its value between $600,000-$800,000.
But from what I've seen of the lady on YouTube and talk shows, she's probably worth that...if you have that much to spend on a ring!
Crystal Hefner also got a pretty good sized diamond, but I don't think it was that large, a reported 7.25 carats. Tebow said the diamond, like his lady, is flawless.
It'd be a pity to throw a ring like that off a bridge!
If it was a wedding ring, I hope it wasn't worth what the one that baseball player Tim Tebow paid for for his fiancee, Demi-Leigh Nel- Peters, former Miss South Africa and Miss Universe 2017.
Experts have estimated its value between $600,000-$800,000.
But from what I've seen of the lady on YouTube and talk shows, she's probably worth that...if you have that much to spend on a ring!
Crystal Hefner also got a pretty good sized diamond, but I don't think it was that large, a reported 7.25 carats. Tebow said the diamond, like his lady, is flawless.
It'd be a pity to throw a ring like that off a bridge!
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Ask the girl narrating the song. She was with him. Perhaps they were a bunch of flowers she and Billy Joe had picked together on Choctaw Ridge.
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I always thought it was a body
From one of Bobbie's interviews:
As Gentry told Fred Bronson, “The song is sort of a study in unconscious cruelty. But everybody seems more concerned with what was thrown off the bridge than they are with the thoughtlessness of the people expressed in the song. What was thrown off the bridge really isn’t that important.
“Everybody has a different guess about what was thrown off the bridge—flowers, a ring, even a baby. Anyone who hears the song can think what they want, but the real message of the song, if there must be a message, revolves around the nonchalant way the family talks about the suicide. They sit there eating their peas and apple pie and talking, without even realizing that Billie Joe’s girlfriend is sitting at the table, a member of the family.”
As Gentry told Fred Bronson, “The song is sort of a study in unconscious cruelty. But everybody seems more concerned with what was thrown off the bridge than they are with the thoughtlessness of the people expressed in the song. What was thrown off the bridge really isn’t that important.
“Everybody has a different guess about what was thrown off the bridge—flowers, a ring, even a baby. Anyone who hears the song can think what they want, but the real message of the song, if there must be a message, revolves around the nonchalant way the family talks about the suicide. They sit there eating their peas and apple pie and talking, without even realizing that Billie Joe’s girlfriend is sitting at the table, a member of the family.”
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Better yet..
Why did "Billy-Joe" jump ?
Was he pushed ?
I always thought that "nice young preacher Brother Taylor".
Was shady ..
Why did "Billy-Joe" jump ?
Was he pushed ?
I always thought that "nice young preacher Brother Taylor".
Was shady ..
Ivan the Butcher
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Driving back home from visiting Southern family last year, as we approached Memphis from the South we drove by the bridge. IF you are going to jump, that's a good one to do it from.
By the Olympic diving scores, Billy Joe was penalized by the Russian judge, a whole point and a half; too much splash!
Ivan
By the Olympic diving scores, Billy Joe was penalized by the Russian judge, a whole point and a half; too much splash!
Ivan
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gman51
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What was thrown off the bridge was the final end to it all. Water does not pass under the same bridge twice.
ParadiseRoad
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..."The original Tallahatchie Bridge of Ode to Billie Joe collapsed, but this is the replacement."...
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The city dump was closed, and they knew if they dropped the garbage down the fifteen foot cliff off the side road off another side road, they'd end up on the bench with mother rapers and father rapers.
So rather than pick whatever it up, was they decided to throw theirs down.
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Pass the biscuits, please.
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Seems to me
You could always watch the movie and pay close attention, and still not know!
You could always watch the movie and pay close attention, and still not know!
A hi-point perhaps
