The clue is right in here, 2 times:
[’n’ Mama said to me “Child, what’s happened to your appetite?”
“I’ve been cookin’ all morning and you haven’t touched a single bite”
“That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today”
“Said he’d be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way”
“He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge”]
and here
[And me, I spend a lot of time pickin’ flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge]
Last June 3rd there was another Ode to Billy Joe thread and someone posted an explanation of the song supposedly from Bobbie Gentry, although given many years later. The song, she said, was not about whatever was thrown from the bridge, or even about Billy Joe. The song was about the flow of life and death, and the casual way in which Billy Joe’s death was discussed over dinner along with other minutia and the general lack of interest it provoked.
The clue is right in here, 2 times?
I seriously cannot figure the clue. She is a girl going to Choctaw Ridge, how is that indicative of a homosexual encounter?
Sorry to be I guess, dense, but I can’t figure it out, no how.