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What Was Thrown Off the Tallahatchie Bridge?

Think back, think way back... it's 1967 and the voice on the AM starts:

It was the third of June,
another sleepy, dusty Delta day.
I was out choppin' cotton
and my brother was balin' hay.

Midway through the song the preacher says the other day he saw a girl with Billy Joe throwing something off the bridge. What was thrown? Anybody from Choctaw Ridge have an answer?

BTW, the real Tallahatchie Bridge collapsed in 1972.
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newbie13
242 posts
 
A baby. How exactly is someone going to see a ring being thrown off a bridge?
noexit
5 posts
 
Inquiring minds want to know just what exactly happened ‘The Night the Lights Went out in Georgia”. Was it similar to that fabled “Afternoon Delight”?
rfigster
45 posts
 
With their eyes is how exactly someone would see a ring or anything else thrown off a bridge. It's the throwing MOTION your arm makes that one see's. Who throws babies off of bridges anyway?
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