Seems like nothing ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge.

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Never understood what that song was about.

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Originally posted by kramden:
Never understood what that song was about.

It's basically about her perspective regarding tragedy and her family's nonchalance, as I recall.

Billy Joe died, blah blah, pass the biscuits please, etc.

I prefer this video and performance of it

quote:

Originally posted by kramden:
Never understood what that song was about.

I interpreted it as Billy Joe was friends with the brother of the singer, and closely involved with the singer, who

a) had been seen by the preacher with Billy Joe throwing 'something' off the bridge that he later jumped off of, and

b) didn't eat anything at dinner after hearing the news, and

c) spent the year after his jump picking flowers and throwing them off the bridge, too.

NOW I understand......it's just another stupid song. Got it. Thanks.

Per the lyrics, the young preacher Brother Taylor saw someone who looked just like the narrator with Billie Joe, tossing something off the bridge.

One theory is it was a stillborn baby, and Billie Joe's guilt over that death leads him to make his fatal dive.