If you checked the links you probably saw my( and possibly others’) explanation that as was stated, in the song you;re not meant to know for sure. If you go by the movie, it was the girl’s doll,“Benjamin”. Don’t judge me because I know that 
flowers, flowers she picked up on Choctaw Ridge. That’s all. She told him she was pg, he took it badly, killed himself rather than face the shame. She miscarried, her Daddy died, her Mama got depression, and the whole family sort of fell apart.
Not much fun to write a story about that, I suppose, but, hey, if you can write about an ore boat sinking, I guess a suicide is fair game, too.
yeah, I recently went on Youtube and listened to a lot of Bobbie Gentry’s stuff. DAMN! She was a freaking genius of Southern gothic! Casket Vignette,So Peaceful,I Saw An Angel Die, Sweet Peony, everything she did just had this incredible emotional intensity and power, even when its topic was seemingly minor. I had no idea how good she was when I first encountered her music.
The letters of transit.
when I was a kid, about the time the song was current, it was widely believed to have been their aborted fetus, shortly followed by BJM, but that was just us.
The songs are pretty good, but that is some seriously cheesy 60s-era production. :smack:
My favorite part of it is the string track, written by Jimmy Haskell. I recommend studying what he wrote as a lesson on the art of sweetening – not too much, not too soon, not too overpowering, but tasty and just right.
And knowing Jimmie Haskell’s workflow, he probably wrote it in a couple of hours after midnight on the morning of the sweetening session that started at 9AM.
…aaaaand now the song is ruined.
I’ll give you that. On some of the recordings on Youtube, you can barely hear her for the lush violins and so forth. Simplicity was not well understood by whoever produced her music.
Mary Jo Kopechne.
And for the win…
~VOW
Let’s go down to the Tallahatchie Bridge and throw stuff off.
Yeah, yeah. People always want to solve the mystery of The Tallahatchie Bridge. But nobody ever asks what the hell Buddy Holly was referring to in I’m Changin’ All Those Changes. He spends the whole song talking about shit he’s changing and shit he should reconsider, but gives no details.
Of course, music tends to help songs get away with weaknesses in lyrics, and songs with very little content can get away with dwelling on the emotion without getting into objective correlatives, but it’s still a weakness in Holly’s work. Or is it?
It’s definitely a persistent pattern with Holly. “If you knew Peggy Sue, then you’d know why I feel blue…” – that’s all the info you’re going to get, because he sure as hell isn’t going to describe her in any way other than to repeat that she’s pretty. Who is this great enigma of Rock ‘n’ Roll, and why does Holly spend half the follow-up song Peggy Sue Got Married denying firsthand knowledge before even he gives the girls name and mentions that she’s gotten married. Look, I know that “Uncertainty with Regards to the Marital Status of Peggy Sue” would have been an awkward title, but that is what the song is actually about. But why? Was Holly self-consciously mocking his own penchant for vagary?
How about It Doesn’t Matter Anymore? What doesn’t matter anymore? One reference to hugging, and everything else is a collection of oblique references to emotion-related circumstances.
What exactly are True Love Ways, and if we’re supposed to just accept the ambiguity and move on, why does Holly hint that we should Think it Over? People screwing around trying to figure out what was dropped off some bridge while the older, deeper mystery goes unanswered: What have we been a-missin’?
Good Og – reading that page, I see there are cactual competitions, with champions. One kid was 18.
If you’re a Poohstick champion at 18, you should be ashamed of yourself for depriving a younger kid of the honor. Unless you suffer from a disability yourself.
Some guy named Wilhelm. I heard him scream as they pushed him.