Beau of the Fifth Column says that’s not important at all:
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.
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.
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.
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.
No wonder the catfish don’t seem to want to do much of anything.
i found this in FB memories, I wrote it 3 years ago:
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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.