this has always been one of my mom's favorite songs so i've heard it
for years. i've actually been using this song in my English class
to teac theme because it's never explicitly spelled out what the
song's about and it makes the students have to analyze.

but, on to the point, my mom said that she saw bobbie gentry on a
talk show once several years ago and she said that she preferred the
lyrics of the song to be a mystery and had no plans to ever really
tell what the song's meaning really is or if it was an actual event.

--- In bobbiegentry@yahoogroups.com, tuzahu973@a... wrote:
> How nice to hear from other Bobbie fans. I was in her official
fan club in
> the early 1970's. Somewhere in storage I've all the original
press releases
> she used to send out. On your birthday she'd handwrite a note to
every
> member...it was a swell club. As what was tossed off the bridge I
remember
> she being on a talk show and asked that question and she wouldn't
aswer. She
> just said, 'What do YOU think they threw off the bridge?'
>
> I've not many of her CD and would love to have ALL her music on CD.
>
> What's Bobbie doing now days?