[parsifal]

In case some of the younger freepers never heard the song, Ode to Billy Joe, here it is:

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

parsy, who loved it

[PGalt]

Great tune, parsy. Thanks for the link. Too bad Orly couldn’t cause Barry to jump.

[browardchad]

parsy, who loved it

You weren't alone in that.

And 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 she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

...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.

(Orly wouldn't understand it though -- it's a cultural thing. She'd probably figure that a government conspiracy pushed Billy Joe.)