Tallahatchie Bridge
 
 
SOME DAYS THEY JUST CHANGE YOUR LIFE.  FOREVER THERE WAS THEN,  AND WE CAN ONLY LIVE IN THE AFTER.  I HAVE LIVED MY LIFE WITH A SORROW THAT CAME TO ME THE THIRD OF JUNE YESTERYEAR .  I HAD BEEN AWAY AT SCHOOL AND GOT INTO TOWN JUST IN TIME FOR DINNER.  I WAS SITTIN WIT MY FOLKES HAVING SUMMERS FIXINS, WHEN I REMEMBER PA ALMOST LAUGHING AS MA SAID IT.   BILLIE JOE MACALLISTER DONE DID MURDER ON HERSELF TODAY.  AND SO MY WORLD ENDED WHERE I THOUGHT IT HAD BEGAN.
 
 
THAT SUMMER BEFORE I WAS WALKING HOME, LAST DAY OF SCHOOL AND ALL.  CROSSING THE TALLI LIKE IVE DONE  A FEW THOUSAND TIMES BEFORE.  ITS A BRIDGE THAT SERVES ITS PURPOSE BUT NOBODY PUT NO LOVE IN HER MAKING.    BUT EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE GOD SEES FIT TO SHINE A LITTLE EXTRA LIGHT DOWN ON HER.  LIKE THE DAY I FIRST MET BILLIE JOE.
SHE WAS THROWING ROSE PETALS TO THE WATERS FAT FROM THE LAST OF THE SPRING RAINS.
 
THEY SAY THIS BRIDGE IS CURSED, SHE SAID TO ME.... NOBODY KNOWS WHY, JUST A THANG THAT IS.  YOU CAN FEEL IT CANT YOU.