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You can argue both ways. the entire tone of the song is mournful. all of the action takes place in an unnamed backwater ( hence the Tallahatchee Bridge) as it is pronounced- southern town. the town seems to be culturally backward but does have a ( Picture show) a dialect term for a movie house. the character, while crucial to the song, is not positively identified as either male or female. I can"t help but think it was a Girl, as a Girl- Bobby Gentry sings the song. The title character commited suicide- but not details are given. Choctaw Ridge and the Tallahatchee bridge are, in effect, crime scenes. It is a sad, morbid song that doesn"t even seem to have any redeeming qualities. the grandfather character dies of a virus- which just adds to the graveyard atmosphere.

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