The Real Ode To Billy Joe
https://audiomack.com/nashvillecalif/song/the-real-ode-to-billy-joe
If you know the Bobby Gentry story , you'll get this
A man passed in Louisiana about a week a go today
Detectives found a trunk full of old dusty letters
About a crime committed in about nineteen fifty eight
According to him Bobby Gentry was brutally raped
She was a young girl but tuff Billy made a fatal mistake
He’s side of the story she got a glimpse of him
On that rusty trestle between a slowing moving train
She Screamed I told the Sheriff you’ll be punished by the law
I hope you go straight to hell one way you’re going pay
He just leaped suddenly broke his neck in the fall
Nothing ever comes to no good on choctaw ridge
And Becky Thompson and that man knew and saw it all
Now you know the real reason why Billie Joe Mcallister
Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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It’s still a mystery why Miss Gentry just disappeared
Just them story’s about that desert Las Vegas
Burned pages of lyrics that was the end of her career
Carbine copy’s on his typewriter but they weren’t to clear
Something about how he visited her just smoke and mirrors
Becky Thompson well she just vanished like Bobby in thin air
Maybe this song of his account somehow wouldc flush her out
Damn right she’d be angry say it’s lies you’re talking about
Something was strange in her Southern tale left us on edge
He took to his grave the real reason why Billy Joe Mcallister
Jumped off the Tallahatchie bridge
Star Magazines on dirt at check out stands who do believe
Bobby or the unknown man
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@ElvisNash - history lesson in a song, very cool :).. never really knew the story behind the song.
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Nashville wondered for years , why Billy jumped off the bridge . Bobby vanished , never to return to music
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@ElvisNash - something happened. that was so traumatic that a person jumped and another vanished from sight
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Another clever interpretation of a classic song. The concept is genius. Maybe the next one off the rank: Checkout at the Hotel California!
Loved it, shame whatever made Booby Gentry go into hiding for so long though, anyone find out the reason why.
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No idea , She had a great music deal going then she vanished never talking to anyone in the music business again
Some say she has a condo next to the bridge
Thanks Sid
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I should be worth 500k by now on songs I've written and produced , Damn music business
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