what's this song???

[crisgal]

i have a part of a song going 'round me head and it's driving me mental!
It's a bit like Harper valley PTA, in that it tells a story of something - I think - two young people ..er...at a prom,and is from around the same time.
Any way, they throw something off the _________bridge possible something like, hellatatchi? I think it's the ballad of someone - Billy jo? Billy rae?
It's very annoying as I really only have the tune and the odd word!
help me pleeeeeeease!

[Bobbisox]

ode to Billy-Jo?

[Milvus]

ode to billy joe. Bobby Gentry

[Francis Asis]

I know the one. Billy Joe Mcallister jumped off the tallahatchi bridge.

[ubasses]

http://www.cowboylyri...illie-joe-13490.html. Yes you can get all the lyrics from this website

[Davethedog]

Ode to Billy-jo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZt5Q-u4crc

[merciasounds]

Is it this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZt5Q-u4crc

[Bobbisox]

here you are cris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZt5Q-u4crc

[Bobbisox]

Od Dear...pmsl

[crisgal]

thanks everyone - i feel very special! I didn't think anyone would get it from my lame description!
What's it all about then?

[Bobbisox]

tittle-tattle in a li'l old hick town in the southern staes I think

[douglas9401]

It's about young love and the consequences of unprotected sex in the deep south in the sixties I believe.

[tamborine]

what did they throw off the bridge ?

[merciasounds]

well I always thought - the girl had a baby - what the priest saw them throwing off the bridge - Billy joe couldn't live with the guilt and threw himself off too...

[Davethedog]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ode_to_Billie_Joe

HaHa lets see how many do this :-D

[crisgal]

they threw a BABY off the bridge?? Blimey, what a jolly song!

[douglas9401]

merciasounds, yup.

[Bobbisox]

he's must have very depressed, Billy Jo, after listening to those lyrics ;-(

[tamborine]

a baby would float and the culprits would be prosecuted = not a baby.

[crisgal]

have read the wiki thing with interest. it seems listeners of the song have read meanings into the lyrics that weren't really there.
i don't particularly care for the song - it just repeats and repeats a rather dull melody IMO. I'm glad I found out about it though. ♥