re: What did Billie Joe and the narrator throw off the Tallahatchee Bridge?

Goddamn. Yall are some dark motherfrickers. How about this instead?

They were young and in love but can't be together because her father would never approve. He needs to get the frick out of Choctaw Ridge but his clan don't allow family to leave their people and go to the City. It's all he has ever dreamed of. So they decide to take their suicides and run away together. The Preacher sees them and the girl knows he will tell the father and the father will hunt them down. So she sacrifices herself, sends him to the city and she returns to her mundane life on the farm. But dreams of life in the city with him every night.

Meanwhile... he makes it to the City. Becomes famous as an underground bare knuckle prize fighter because he has no other skills. Drinks and whores his way through the city before becoming addicted to heroin and dies in an alley late one evening.

Had to go dark at the end.