That bridge isn’t high enough to kill yourself. Wish we knew if he was carrying a rock or something. How did the ignoramus kill himself.
I remember the movie they made from the song
Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense...
What were they throwing off the bridge?
Author seems to not know what prescient means.
“Mystic masterpiece”? Give me a break.
Very interesting bio. At a different point in the music/tv market, she could have had a long career in performance and production. Instead, she chucked it all at age 39 and is presumably living nicely on her residuals and/or divorce settlements.
That’s why I preferred the Marty Robbins song, “BIG IRON”. Texas Red tried to take on the Arizona Ranger. “BOOM!” Texas Red bites the dust. Nothing there to have to ponder or feel guilty about. No secret or profound lyrics.
Re-listening to a lot of songs from my youth recently. Played this expecting to not much care for it. What I noticed was the arraignment musically subtly builds up as the song goes along and gives it that extra oomph beyond just the story telling.
And my brother’s birthday is the 3rd of June, so I always remember that when I hear this song.
I liked Fancy.
They threw their baby off the bridge. Billie Jo was overcome by guilt, and killed himself.
He dove in after an engagement ring she threw away.
“Everybody seems more concerned with what was thrown off the bridge than they are with the thoughtlessness of people expressed in the song”
It isn’t thoughtlessness. People who have lived with death and dying accept it happens, that we don’t always know why and that, at least in human eyes, there often IS no reason why.
That is also true with suicide. People who commit suicide often do it for reasons known only to them. Where other may see success, they see failure. I feel bad if I hear someone kills themself, but I feel worse when someone who has a lot to live for and wants to live, dies!
But either way, “Pass the biscuits, please!” Our lives go on. And sometimes, not for much longer: “Papa caught it, and he died last spring.”
I feel more for “Mama” than for Billy Joe.
“ Fortunately, Gentry offered a clue …”
Offered a clue? She said what is about.
Good song, remember when it came out. I still have trouble not calling it, “Ode to Billy Joel.”
IMDb lists at least two movie stuntmen named Billy Joe. He got sick of that lousy town and went to Hollywood. Bobbie and Billy got back together out there but she met someone else and . . . My ending is just as good and everyone lives ( except Papa)
Wasn’t there a movie made about song? All I remember is teenage boy getting raped by homosexuals, before he jumped off bridge.
This guy really, really wants you to know he is a Writer. And if you are a Writer, then you can never have too many adjectives and metaphors and similes and stuff.
He would be well-advised to find an Editor.