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DC:
I've been doing some research and ya know, nowhere in the song does it say that Billy Joe died when he jumped off the Tallahachie Bridge. It was only 20' high.

What? Me bored? ;D ;D

Pat B:
Yeah, but what did they throw off the Tallahachee bridge?

JEB:
Only your imagination knows Pat

willie:
according to hollywood


--- Quote ---When screenwriter Herman Raucher met with Bobbie Gentry to find out why Billie Joe committed suicide, she admitted she didn’t know at all. So the movie recast Billy Joe as a gay teenager in 1960 Mississippi.
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Hawkdancer:

--- Quote from: DC on April 19, 2020, 07:51:43 pm ---I've been doing some research and ya know, nowhere in the song does it say that Billy Joe died when he jumped off the Tallahachie Bridge. It was only 20' high.

What? Me bored? ;D ;D

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The bridge or the river? >:D (lol)
Hawkdancer

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