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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: DC on April 19, 2020, 07:51:43 pm

Title: Ear worm
Post by: 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

Title: Re: Ear worm
Post by: Pat B on April 19, 2020, 09:12:24 pm

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

Title: Re: Ear worm
Post by: JEB on April 19, 2020, 09:38:33 pm

Only your imagination knows Pat

Title: Re: Ear worm
Post by: willie on April 19, 2020, 09:50:16 pm

according to hollywood

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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.

Title: Re: Ear worm
Post by: Hawkdancer on April 19, 2020, 10:20:22 pm

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

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

Title: Re: Ear worm
Post by: DC on April 19, 2020, 11:34:03 pm

The bridge. Apparently the bridge is 20' high and the water is very deep.