They was throwing out the bathwater. The baby was safe at home. Dirty, but safe.
20 minutes of tape. But just once.
Hopefully it was all the copies of the song ever recorded.
Just what the hell did Billie Joe McAllister throw off the Tallahatchie Bridge in the song Ode to Billie Joe by Bobby Gentry? Thanks for any answer.
John
Marcellus Washington’s soul.
In the movie it was Bobby Lee’s ( Billy Joe’s girlfriend) rag doll. In the song we aren’t meant to know.
Wallace
D’oh! That’ll teach me to post while watching to Shogun.
What WOOKINPAUB said. Also:
In the song, Billie Joe throws something off the bridge the day before he jumps. Many people speculated that it was a baby, which led to his suicide. In the movie, it he throws over a rag doll and jumps because he thinks he might be gay.
Gentry: “The message of the song revolves around the nonchalant way the family talks about the suicide. The song is a study in unconscious cruelty.”
A metaphor.
Watching to Shogun?
Put on a pair of clean white tabi; you’ll feel better.
Today is not my day for multi-tasking. I started to say “listening” to Shogun, then changed it to “watching” without editing. <sigh> My students are enjoying the movie, so I guess that counts as a plus. Maybe Toranaga knows what was tossed off the bridge. He seems to know everything else!
I think it was the guy who was so vain Carly Simon bet he’d think the song was about him.
Hitler’s brain.
I’m sorry, but Bobbi Gentry was absolutely IT for deep-fried white southern soul.
Yeah, that song ROCKS. I love the guitar, and the downward string flourish at the end. Like as if a flower were dropped off the bridge, flutters down, and then sets on the surface of the river.
Clinton’s dick.
I don’t know, but it fell all the way down to the bottom of the Marianas Trench, where it was found, in 1960-something, for…ah, forget it
Jimmy Hoffa’s plastic-wrapped, duct-taped corpse.
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It was just, y’know, … that thing. You know, the thing? Yeah, *that * thing. (Ahhhh, it all becomes clear now, doesn’t it? Just nod knowingly and walk away.)
When the song came out, I worked at a small-town radio station, and we got a call from an irate local fundie who was convinced that what was thrown off the bridge was the narrator’s aborted fetus. She “reasoned” that it couldn’t have been an illegitimate child (which, I assume, would have been OK with her) because, well, no one can hide pregnancy that long, and it was clearly the result of their illicit love affair, so it had to be an aborted fetus. Makes no sense whatsoever, but there it was.
There’s a very, very funny take on the song here.