Everything about The Tallahatchie River totally explained
The
Tallahatchie River flows from
Tippah County, Mississippi to
Leflore County, Mississippi, where it joins the
Yalobusha River to form the
Yazoo River.
Tallahatchie is a
Choctaw name meaning "rock of waters".
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Though best known from the song "
Ode to Billie Joe" and movie (spelled differently)
Ode to Billy Joe, which has the refrain
Billy Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie bridge, the river has historical significance due to the murder of
Emmett Till, an
African-American youth who was brutally beaten, shot, and sunk in the river by a cotton gin fan tied around his neck by barbed wire. This event is mentioned in another song, "Freedom Highway," by the
Staple Singers, in the lines, "Found dead people in the forests, Tallahatchie River and lakes/Whole world is wondering, what's wrong with the United States?"
A third song that mentions the Tallahatchie river is "Tallahatchie River Blues," recorded by Mattie Delaney in 1930. This
blues song records the devastation caused in the local African-American community by a flood on the normally shallow river.
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