# It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [June 3, 2022, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-third-of-june-another-sleepy-dusty-delta-day/965634 "2022-06-03T17:00:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-third-of-june-another-sleepy-dusty-delta-day/965634/21 "2022-06-04T05:38:47Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > I wonder what they threw off the bridge. Beau of the Fifth Column says that’s not important at all: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/EFd9QZG0L7c/maxresdefault.jpg "Let's talk about why Billy Joe jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge....") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFd9QZG0L7c) Youtube recommended that to me after I watched @DavidNRockies link above. I hadn’t seen this one since I didn’t start watching him until after Jan 6th 2021. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-third-of-june-another-sleepy-dusty-delta-day/965634/22 "2022-06-04T14:55:10Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I’ve always thought that was obvious. Am I the only one? In seriousness, ARE YOU KIDDING? No one knows. It’s been the subject of debate lo these 55 years. They even made a movie “explaining” it, which was crap. The only one that knows isn’t saying. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-third-of-june-another-sleepy-dusty-delta-day/965634/23 "2022-06-04T15:07:45Z")
They threw her appetite off the bridge. Thus, Mama: “Child, what’s happened to your appetite?” Very meta. But Mama knew more than she was letting on. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-third-of-june-another-sleepy-dusty-delta-day/965634/24 "2022-06-04T19:15:04Z")
In the 70s it was speculated that they threw a miscarriaged baby off the bridge. Further speculation was that Billie Joe was the cause of the miscarriage and that’s why he killed himself off of the same bridge they disposed of the baby. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-third-of-june-another-sleepy-dusty-delta-day/965634/25 "2022-06-04T19:18:28Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > And me, I spend a lot of time taking those hard biscuits up to Choctaw Ridge. And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge. No wonder the catfish don’t seem to want to do much of anything. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2022, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-third-of-june-another-sleepy-dusty-delta-day/965634/26 "2022-06-05T00:49:00Z")
i found this in FB memories, I wrote it 3 years ago: ’ It’s been fifty years or so since we heard about Billie Joe But most things haven’t changed all that much, don’t ya know. Mama’s gone been twenty years come mid July Brother lost Becky and the store and now don’t even try And me I’m pushing 75 but I still go up to Chocktaw Ridge But I’ve forgotten why it was Billie Joe jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-third-of-june-another-sleepy-dusty-delta-day/965634.md?page=1)