Sure is hot out here. Is it dinner time yet?
Pass the biscuits, please.
Now as you know, I’m an Aussie (of middling years) but I do remember a movie from my youth when Billie Joe jumped off the Tallahatchie (sp?) bridge.
Was this then based on a true story? My memory from back then is a bit jaded…can someone fill me in? Thanks ever so much!
Well, Billie Joe never had a lick of sense.
Recently a prisoner being transported for mental health evaluation escaped from the ambulance and jumped off a local bridge, falling 50 feet into 3 feet of water. My gf was stuck in the traffic created by the event, and returned home to relate what she’d heard.
I told her it was Billie Joe McAllister. She then told several neighbors about what happened and the dude’s name, saying I apparently knew him. Eventually someone told her that was the guy’s name in that song. She slapped me.
Is the original seven minute, eleven verse version available anywhere?
I had a brief Google, but couldn’t find those lyrics.
Also Wikipedia says there’s a song by Roger White ‘The Mystery of Tallahatchie Bridge’, which explains more - but I couldn’t find that either. :smack:
It’s a great song, with a strong message about failing to care when others suffer - but I want to find out more!
Baling hay all day, dusty weather–but them that works hard eats hearty! Black-eyed peas, biscuits, pork hocks…
Once upon a time, Dan Rather said that if he heard Nixon use the phrase “lift of a driving dream” in a speech one more time, he would “jump off the Tallahatchie Bridge”. Someone relayed the message to Nixon, who gleefully added it to at least a couple of extra speeches.
You deserved it. 
It’s only at times like this do I think SDMB should have a like button.
I suspect Brother Taylor. “Nice young preacher”, my ass - he’s up to something, you mark my words.
I was heading out the field to chop some cotton this morning. And then I remembered I live in New York, I don’t have a field, and I’m not a farmer. So I picked up my mail and went back inside.
You miss out on the finer things in life, such as placing a frog down the back of a girl’s dress at the Carroll County picture show.
But it does get him out of plowing the lower forty.
“Plowing the lower forty” can be fun, ya know…;);):D:cool:
You’re a baaad baaad boy!
In the immortal words of Nigel Tufnel:
Working up a hot sweat
Crouching in your pea patch
Plowing through your bean field
Planting my seed
Sex farm woman, I’m gonna mow you down
Sex farm woman, I’ll rake and hoe you down
Yeah, I knew you were a Yankee city slicker by the eighth word there.