364
No.
No.
Uh I don't really
Same term.
No.
Uh.
Yeah.
If he if he's
Uh eighty years old still doing his farm work
I I would say he
{NS}
its its
something unusual.
I would say.
No, I.
Well I would use spry.
He's spry old man.
Bad.
Uh.
The children did what?
Yeah.
I'm worried I'm
I'm worried about 'em.
Well I have, yes.
I'm uneasy about it.
Afraid.
For what?
Fear.
Uh.
I would
Uh.
I can't think of an-
Uh.
I don't know of another word
{D: that'd fit in.}
Used to
{D: listen.}
{X}
Okay I I know there's gotta be a
{X}
Uh.
She's not afraid now.
But she used to
not be afraid.
Yeah.
{NW}
Careless.
I'd say he's careless.
Uh.
Silly.
Yeah.
{D: Whatever}
{D: you say that.}
{NW}
{D: Surely.}
Uh.
{D: Dunmore or.}
{NW}
Uh.
In arguing?
{NW}
Well in the Bible
uh
Paul said that
if you uh
you can't
reckon
uh.
Reason with
a person if
if he's not silent-minded.
{NW}
Yeah.
Well I
I may have.
Hard-headed.
Hard-headed.
{NW}
Well now
we use the term high-tempered.
Fractious.
{X}
Mad.
{NW}
Well.
My term
my my
term for that is uh
well to me he's crazy.
{NW}
I don't
I just
I I use the crazy term.
Just a fool.
{D: That he'd be.}
{NW}
Just be quiet.
Keep calm.
Quiet.
Tired.
{D: Year out.}
W-worn out.
{D: Sick or what?}
Failed.
Yeah.
A few days.
Soon.
Chilled?
Fell out?
{X}
{NW}
{D:Fade}
Well he had the
uh eyes and nose.
Yeah.
Hoarse.
Cold.
Uh
sore throat?
Uh
I don't know what I'd call it
I had it all the time.
Cough?
Cough.
Well that would be alright
I guess.
A cough that
now I
I don't like that word but
uh but
{NW}
{X}
I'll
a-accept it.
{NW}
Tired.
Or worn out uh.
Sleepy yeah.
{X}
Waking.
Yeah yeah I I wake at six oh clock.
{NW}
Wake him.
Taken your medicine.
Deaf.
Sweating.
A wart.
Uh
on your arm?
Uh that has a
{NW}
I wouldn't say it's a rise, I'd say
uh maybe a
{D: cancer}.
A boil.
A rising.
I'm gonna call it
stuff like that.
What's this open?
We we uh usually call it
well
the old
{D: chasm's}
collection.
{NW}
{D: Swole.}
Yeah swollen.
The liquid?
Yeah I know.
I know it
I know but I
I didn't know
I just didn't
Uh
stick
Uh my name for peeling is
w-w
wore out.
{NW}
{NW}
And soon it dries out.
He got a what?
Wound.
Now I don't know that
uh word.
Uh would it be sterilized or?
Uh.
You'd call it terrorsome.
Yeah.
Its not fully described
unless
proud flesh
is uh
is a wound
that doesn't ever heal.
And uh
uh it it stays raw
irritated all the time.
Until you
you burn out
and burn it out.
{NW}
We usually put
to avoid infection?
Well we old-timers use
turpentine
That's what we used to use.
Yeah.
That would be
uh I don't know what it
what
you would now
call that
old stuff, I don't.
Uh.
I don't know what they use now.
No, it wouldn't be mercurochrome.
Yeah, iodine I know.
Uh
{X}
{D: Certainly make it next}
I don't like the new stuff.
He he just putting turpentine on it.
{NW}
A tonic?
I don't know
nothing but whiskey.
Yeah.
Uh.
Who thought of quinine?
Was it
old
folks, old doctors
used to use for malaria?
I'm not sure.
But
uh
that's what the old
doctors
{D: parts them early}
doctors used to use.
Rhubarb and quinine.
And uh and
rhubarb and
what chamomile, chamomile.
Now that
that was
all doctor has so don't care if you stump your
foot yeah.
You need that
I don't know.
I don't know.
But that uh
that's right with the old doctors
not the new.
Treating fever.
Malaria
{C: pronunciation}
and fever and stuff.
Rhubarb and quinine.
Yeah.
I'd call it a graveyard or a cemetery.
{X}
It'd be the coffin.
{D: Equi Service.}
Uh.
Funeral.
Mourning.
Fine.
Don't worry.
Rheumatism or
arthritis.
I know about that.
That's uh
diphtheria.
Yellow jaundice.
Oh that's
appendicitis.
I had
{X}
{D: no appendix.}
Vomit.
Threw up.
Or puke.
Uh.
{D: Yeah I don't see that much}
uh
{D: if its getting busy out.}
{X}
{D: or something}
like that.
If he was
{D: where?}
Sick to stomach.
{D: What'd you say?}
I I don't get that.
Oh.
I'm gonna
to him.
Okay.
If he doesn't come?
{NS}
Uh I'll be disappointed.
We'll
you are welcome.
Uh.
{D: You all.}
I use
glad.
Dating her.
Uh
courting.
Boy uh uh
beau.
Well that's the word we used to use, beau.
Beau
I don't.
Yeah.
Dating.
{NW}
Uh I I wish I could.
I always thought.
I always thought
I wish you was married.
And this ain't what.
Yeah I don't
I don't know if this is the kind of place for that talk.
What I wanted talk.
{NW}
Lord I
{X}
{NW}
{NW}
Oh yeah.
Always such a good boy.
{NW}
Well out of most of these questions,
{D: I am super.}
Most all of 'em.
{NW}
They're they're not
uh not too embarrassed, some of 'em
may be a little.
{NW}
I was I'd wait for Mister
{NW}
{D: Mister Billy she would call and just}
{NW}
I'd tell him to cut the line off when I wanted to tell a girl.
{NW}
Uh
she
well
there's so many terms for that, I'd say she's uh
she
quit him.
A newlywed?
Yeah
they just married.
Just married.
Yeah.
They are
honeymooning.
{X}
Mm.
That ain't a term I use.
But I'll accept it.
{NW}
Uh.
The best man.
Uh.
I I don't know.
Bridesmaid?
Yeah, that'd
be alright yeah cause.
Ain't nobody stand with me.
When I had gotten in trouble.
{NW}
Yeah.
{NW}
Yeah uh.
Not celebrate.
Serenading.
Serenading.
No, I don't.
I don't know.
{X}
But we used to serenade outside their room.
Knoxville?
I'd say I'd been up to Knoxville.
I'd say I'd been uh down to Atlanta.
We we would usually
We usually say
if its north we'd say up
and if its south we would say
down.
{NW}
I don't I wouldn't
I wouldn't
{D: term}
it like that.
I usually
use it as uh
um
direction
north, south.
You use that with
or
Yeah.
And up north and down south.
That's the way I use it.
Whole gang.
{D: Dance}.
Oh yeah there's
plenty of names for 'em.
All kinds of names. Uh.
Uh.
We used to do the cakewalk.
We used to do the two-step.
And we used to
do the cha-cha you know?
{NW}
So many different dances.
Is out.
After labor day?
Begins.
Tardy.
Um.
Playing hooky.
{NW}
Education.
College.
Uh uh
kindergarten you go into elementary.
Elementary is
oh I don't know.
Yeah.
I did.
Primary school.
Desks.
Library.
{X}
At the post office.
Hotel.
Theater.
Uh
a theater?
Uh.
Let's see.
Well yeah I've heard the term I
I don't know about it but I heard
the term opera house.
To the
hospital.
Is a nurse.
At the station.
Depot.
The square.
Jaywalking.
{NW}
I
I don't
don't remember.
Yeah?
Catty-corner.
Yeah.
Yeah well
that's true too.
Catty-corner.
Streetcar.
To get off.
County seat.
The
federal
federal
government.
Wants police to get tougher?
Peace.
Yeah.
Okay.
{NS}
That's what uh
uh
{D: Reverend Waters}
uh
said he
he
first he said he wasn't for law and order but when he became old he said he was.
I
I don't need it
I don't mean to be in bad humor.
{NW}
Well
I didn't think he looked any different
cause I just didn't care what he said.
But he said that he was
he he was
{NW}
worth a
{X}
Didn't care
when or
what it coming down to
four years he'd be governor
he'd see that there wouldn't be a negro going to white school.
He said now
uh I don't care what kind of order
is issued
what kind of court authorization.
You
{X}
for four years I am your governor.
They may
maybe he'd have to go to jail, but I'll go to jail myself.
Uh.
You people ain't gonna stand seeing him go to jail
let alone for her right now.
He said that over here in Florence.
I said when uh
when he was elected
I said before now I'm gonna get my television in
tip-top shape
he said he wasn't gonna do it,
{D: wasn't gonna abide by the law}
I wanna see him when he placed a hand on the holy Bible.
And swore he will
uphold the constitution of the United States.
And maintain law and order.
When they told him
{D: in thought}
he wasn't gonna do it
but I did, I sat there and watched
{NW}
I said now
{X}
I was laying in bed still.
He said he couldn't stand any schoolhouse door in the state of Alabama
single one if we have niggers going
to a school
a white school.
{NW}
And I
I heard
{X}
lots of 'em.
{X}
{D: you have ever did}
{D: Wallace}
And I told him I said I
I voted for Wallace
But if folks ran for
for governor
I voted for him.
He was the best man.
But when he said that I
slid down off his wagon.
I didn't want to go no further.
Yeah I did too.
I did too.
I voted
{D: DeGraffenried}
but his first
uh
his first
uh
candidacy
was for
between him
{NS}
and John Patterson.
And I voted
He had the
Yeah.
Better man than Patterson.
I thought.
But when he
he said that he would never let another
{D: nobody out here.}
{NW}
{D: Patterson lied immediately.}
{D: Well I mean when he comes back he comes after.}
{NW}
{X}
Oh yeah, yeah.
He's gonna run for president.
There ain't no
there ain't no reason why why to run against George Wallace, he's
the smartest man in the Alabama.
Oh yeah, well he's the smartest man in Alabama.
{D: I know that he uh}
He is a smart politician
I have to give it to him.
But I think he'll win it.
When he's smart, he fools you people.
{NW}
Yeah.
Well.
Well he never carried it.
{D: Never really placed}
He uh
if uh
{NW}
this uh
back man hadn't come in.
Uh
Mister Wallace
who saw that he was
he was gonna really lose out.
{C: distorted from 31:45 to 32:00}
And he had
{D: ate a post}
in the state of Alabama and he was
{X}
He was from uh
{D: Wilkins}
uh
put it up
I haven't been having a
He's smart.
You have to give
I'll give it to him.
My hat's off to Mister Wallace for being smart.
Because?
It'd be very hard.
But there
are
there are possibility.
You know what believe it or not.
Now he had
{D: he he gone down to fool with Alabama}
his laws are more
{D: progressive.}
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I I know the
{D: set.}
Well if he asked you
you've lost a lot.
They really
there there are lots of
white people
There's a lot of white people
{D: this time}
{D:guessing.}
I I found that out.
{X}
they call a sympathy vote
sympathy vote.
Oh yeah.
Sympathy vote
I don't know her but
{D: I thought she was some nobody}
{C: reduced audio quality}
I I I haven't seen any pictures of her.
But uh
{NS}
Now some
some
uh
disregard them up through 'em all
because of his first wife.
You can't beat Mister Wallace.
No.
Oh yeah.
Uh.
{D: Lanny}
said uh
you see,
she was in the hospital.
Every
once in a while
she was in the hospital.
And then he said
Mister Wallace would get her
back before
the uh
this other man would take over.
And he was the go-getter
and bring her back to
his office.
He's smart.
He he said he he's gonna be.
{NW}
Civil.
Hanged.
Alban?
Oh oh its
Albany, New York.
And Annapolis?
Indiana.
Maryland.
Virginia.
North Carolina.
South Carolina.
{NW}
Sherman.
{D: General}
Georgia.
Mm-hmm.
Florida.
Alabama.
{NW}
{D: What word what?}
Louisiana.
Kentucky.
Volunteer?
{NW}
{NS}
Ohio.
Tennessee.
Oh volunteer state.
Yeah, I thought I
knew that.
{NS}
Which one?
Uh.
Wait a minute, Missouri?
{NW}
Um.
Arkansas.
Tennessee.
Oh that's
{NW}
uh
{NS}
uh I was thinking about that this morning
Texas.
{NW}
{D: Tulsa?}
Oklahoma.
Massachusetts
From Maine to Connecticut?
Uh.
Wait a minute
wait a minute let me see.
Um.
New England states.
{NW}
Baltimore.
Washington D-C
Biggest city in?
Missouri?
{NW}
It wouldn't be
St Louis?
Yeah?
St Louis?
Seaport in South Carolina?
{NW}
South Carolina.
Wait a minute.
{NW}
{NS}
{D: I I don't know the name but I can't get it}
{D: Cape Cod.}
Charleston South Carolina.
{NW}
Its in uh
{NS}
Pitts uh
Pittsburgh.
Oh.
Yeah.
Birmingham.
In Illinois?
Chicago.
Montgomery.
City on the gulf coast?
Mobile?
East Tennessee?
Knoxville
Chattanooga.
Western North
Carolina.
I forgot all my
geography
for this.
Western North Carolina?
{NW}
Asheville.
Asheville.
I I
I couldn't remember that.
Memphis.
Uh.
Jackson.
Tennessee is Nashville, Nashville.
Atlanta.
Augusta?
No?
{D: I don't know direction}
{X}
Mm.
Hmm?
Savannah.
Savannah.
New Orleans.
{NW}
Baton Rouge.
Cincinnati.
Uh Kentucky?
Yeah.
{NW}
{NS}
Louisville.
{NW}
Uh.
{D: From which?}
About
six miles.
I don't know whether
I can do it or not.
Why'd you just sit around and see me
uh
in such a
strain and wouldn't help me?
Ins-
Uh-uh.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Uh
use that sometimes.
But
{NW}
Because he's
friendly.
{NW}
The churches
I go to?
Oh I just
go to
Baptist and Methodist.
Joined.
God.
Swearing?
Yes.
Its pronounced the same way.
It doesn't mean the same.
Sermon.
Music.
Mm.
{NW}
The service
we had a wonderful service.
More than what?
{NW}
You
You mean the service is more than?
Beautiful.
Hold that hold on I got that
Before all that there.
Spankings.
Bogeyman.
I've heard that
expression.
{X}
{NW}
I'm uh
yeah.
I've heard lots of 'em
old
the ol'
method
{NS}
{D: the old manner}
{NS}
if uh
its a white child
a
nigger will get you
Now you gonna believe I've heard that
time and again.
{D: Nigger says ah that's true oh.}
{NW}
{X}
You ever name a nigger when they're
bad
{X}
Uh-huh.
Well I've had that
that used to make me
make me shudder
when I'd hear that.
Yeah, yeah
{D: horrible to think of}
Mm-hmm.
Yeah now I I've heard that.
No, no.
I remember once
I was a little
little boy
between the years when
{D: Rockwood}
and there was
a lady near the
{X}
Uh.
{D: Burton Underwood}
plays.
And
and she had a bunch of children playing out there in the road,
you know?
Near the raised road.
And I heard in summertime
oh I'd go up to the store every
day or two.
And uh
Come on back here!
There comes a man he'll get you.
And I I just stood it long as I could.
I told her that
{D: lady}
please don't scare your children like that.
Said please ma'am and they were like
she didn't
she didn't use the phrase nigger.
But now if I hadn't've been
listening, she would have said nigger
yes she would.
{NW}
Oh a haint.
Ghoul.
Ghoul.
Oh that house is
{D: haunted.}
{NW}
Dark.
What about
cold.
Yeah that.
{C: Audio becomes faint}
Yeah, its sort of
chilly.
{D: ah go on.}
Um.
Well other than that
{D: I'd go one if I can.}
Well I I'm glad to see you because I hadn't
I haven't seen you in quite a while.
Five hundred acres?
I'd say he has a big farm.
Oh I have.
{X}
If he had five hundred acres I'd say he got a lot of land.
{NW}
No, I'd say a lot.
Oh
{D: claiming on that.}
Plenty of money.
Yes.
Sure.
I'm afraid I can't.
Or I can.
No, I'd say uh
yes ma'am or yes sir.
Um.
If he?
Oh
and he he not he don't wanna go?
Oh.
Oh I don't know what
it'd be.
Sort of depends on the
circumstances in that case.
I might say he's
{D: stuck in mud.}
{NW}
{NS}
Well
not in that
some instances I would say he dreaded it.
Or I might say he
bull headed
Or I might say he's peaked.
{NW}
Or
{X}
some.
{NW}
Uh-oh.
{NW}
{D: Careless as ever.}
And I've got a blister I say nah
and I ain't gonna tell you how its getting around here.
{NW}
{NW}
{NW}
It was me that
{D: made}
the thing let's say you run out.
Wore out.
{NW}
{NW}
What's making me?
Oh scared me.
Land sakes.
Uh no I I don't know.
{NS}
I don't remember using it myself.
I'd just say I'm an old fool.
Just plain fool.
Which I
I uh acknowledge mine.
{NW}
Why are they?
Something shocking?
The very idea.
How do you feel?
I'm glad to meet you.
{NW}
Kind of a greeting?
Christmas eve
or Christmas dear.
On the twenty-fifth.
Christmas dear.
{NS}
Um.
Happy new year.
Well I'd just
plainly say I appreciate.
Very much.
Well now I have.
But I I I
I think
I appreciate it is a solid term.
And I that's that's my
My thinking.
Shopping.
Well in my
in my
{D: reason}
he had charged it.
{NW}
He's packaging it uh
wrapped it.
Wrapped it.
At a loss.
Uh its
too high.
Due.
{D: But I ain't saying nothing.}
{NW}
Dues.
Borrow one.
Scarce.
Ah.
{NW}
Um.
Oh.
Dived.
Belly buster.
A somerset.
Swim.
Um.
{NS}
Give you a present for?
Uh your patronage.
Uh.
I don't know that
word.
{NW}
I don't
I know none of those
Well most uh
uh
we we use it
uh.
{X}
{NS}
Quite often.
Lots of times
paid off our bill and
he would say
maybe
here take it for your
appreciation for your
patronage.
Uh.
And uh
dealing with him.
No, I don't know 'em.
Drowning.
Crawl.
Climb.
Climb the tree.
Said a stump?
Hide.
Where you hide in.
Well.
Uh
{NW}
{NW}
usually he's playing
if he's
not playing he
{X}
{D: for a ruler}
{X}
I would say
uh
I would use it.
I'd I might
{NS}
about
{C: Audio volume decreased until 57:10}
I might use the word hunker.
He
trick you.
In the scary way he'd say boo or something
like that.
Yeah.
{NS}
Praying?
Praying?
It's uh you
first is
address the deity.
Uh.
You'd
you
you usually begin with
uh
addressing the Father.
Uh-huh.
On my knees.
Praying.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm
praying.
{NS}
Rest.
Slept.
Dreamed.
I wake.
Stomp.
{NW}
Can I
assist you or or
yeah.
Could I assist you or?
No.
Same lines.
That would
that'd be
likewise.
Same there.
Yes.
Tow it in.
Push.
Didn't have my car?
And I picked it up?
We use the term toted it.
{NW}
I I was corrected in a
{D: magazine I know of}
that didn't use that word tote.
They said pack.
Pack.
Choice-y?
Oh why?
And I have too.
{NW}
Uh
I I frequently used it.
Well he's choice-y.
Choosy?
Yeah.
Uh I I I'm always seeing is that uh
when when it come
uh
{D: hanging}
I'd say oh he's too choice-y.
Choosy?
Well it
Oh.
Well
it could be I
I'm so off
{D: the lawn.}
{NW}
Don't bother it.
Get my hammer.
Base.
Catch it.
Catch it.
{D: Caught 'em.}
Had a bite.
See you.
Uh.
If I can get there first I'll
I'll wait.
I'll wait for you.
Chance.
Humor.
That what?
Direct.
{NW}
I'm afraid I didn't get that.
Oh yeah.
Oh I would just say get rid of.
Yeah.
Didn't really know what is going on.
Oh I don't.
Now that's
there's a that's a term for
for a
calling them who it is
what
it is, and where he.
{X}
Did, uh-huh.
Acted as if he did.
Uh-huh.
I
I I say he made out like
he did.
That's what I was complaining with the day I left.
Stole it.
Mm.
I remember.
Remember anything.
I just
I've just written him a letter.
Uh.
Mail it.
Answer.
Address it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Back it.
{NW}
Yeah. Yeah.
Oh yeah?
There are
{X}
I I
I sometimes get
{D: Mandy}
to back a letter.
Address.
Taught you.
Who told you or.
Why did
where'd you get that?
{NW}
We're
We're going to town next Wednesday.
Well I'd say we are
we intend to go.
No.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
Tattletale.