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But I had a guitar to keep time. Sure, I'll play the guitar. It don't, it, don't it make it a better music? Right? When did you get your first violin? When did you get your first violin? My first body. Drew. Why did you get 11 of

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my cousin gave me that f one day they said, uh, uh Dennis, I'm gonna buy you fly today. I'm going to be pla, they were over there. But you know where the black LA where I was, uh north, south, south east from uh V plat about

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three miles and one day he hits buggy. You didn't have no car in that time. You hit the buggy. I'm gonna, we pla, I buy your car today. Uh Phil. Oh I said you, you ain't gonna do that. He said, yeah, I gonna buy your violin.

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He thought she could, he thought she would be able to play. I knew I want to play. You see, because I had a cousin and a friend that play every night, you know, like I was around in the knees by, behind the foot and watch how

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to play. So he said, I'm gonna buy you a f today. I went, I said, I, I'm glad, I'm glad if you want to buy me one. But I, I gonna ask you that. So he went with plan, he bought me a little red F, what

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was that? ATM? One of my, what was the name of the song? Uh Just two leader for a man? Uh I say when you finish, you say yes, that's your one. So learn. So I went in my room and, you know, after two

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days I play uh uh I learned two tune tune. And after six months I played for dancing in the house. They had a dance house, dance, square dance and you dance one square dance and 11 waltz. And I play for a night, $1 a night, seven

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o'clock in, in, in the night and until 12 o'clock midnight. So, were you real young? How old were you were? 16 years old? And I learned my film and I play, I play, I play, I play and uh we got, when the accordion come out. So

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I take up a story of ad and play a very good, I used to play for tune for dancing all the, the dancing hall. Do you play it anymore? No, I don't play, I can't play no more. I quit too long. You see and come back

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on the field, quit the pod and come back on the field. And that said that what we started to go alone, play for the whole time. Old tunes. You see, I used to play all the old tune all the time. Yeah. Right. You know, do you

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know the real inspiration? And where did they find out about you? Like, when did you start making a record in 28? The first record I make is in 28 means good. You Sadie. Make madame Young. My Creole sweet mama. That's the two first one with me.

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And then I keep on, make some more. I make a lot happy two step. You know that the happy one step or the one step, two step. I'm not happy. Uh She plays pretty good. Uh Yeah, she, she loves

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that song and I learned all, all I don't remember what all the songs I played when I made them records. Then I went to play with Angela Suzanne and was that a band? We was playing 32. We have no guitar in that time that you play

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of the art work. I play with that. Yeah. And uh me and a bomb. We play and ad and we have to play. No, no, no, nothing. No, no, I mean the, the mic, no, no, no, I find nothing and you could be heard. You have

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to sweat like hell to play that because they had lot, lot, lots of people who goes in the, in the where we play a little ***. It was very good. Very good. The people like him, he play a way that nobody else play and he sang

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very good. So we, we play all over. We play up to the Ba Black Bayou way down there. Me and Nick all over. I was a good place. Let me hear some notes. I think that's right. Got it. Put your knee. I don't understand. You

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don't, you don't catch, we're going to start and drive before we put it on. Ok. Well, this is just for nobody's gonna hear. It's just, you know, uh who was right? Uh

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Yeah. Oh, c never it. Yeah, that's beautiful. Well, why don't you sing it like you do without, without the instrument so I can hear it to write the words then would you mind just singing it? Yeah, just play it.

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So I could hear the words. You can't hear the word. Are you pray? I bet you, you hear the word. Can you play it? Well, yeah, I can. But wasn't there a part about a pony? Remember you said there was a little black horse? Yeah, he

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passes. He saw no, during my, he was on the horse. Yeah, he would ride the horse to go to work and back. You see, and she cut, she cut the branch, she cut the branch for her to see in the road. You see why it went

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bad because the branch went hang too low because she couldn't see him. Sure. She cut the branch off so she can see him back. How does that go in the song about the horse? Well, say it again now, just say it or something, you know, just

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tell me the words. But I do, I can't say too high. You just, I got that stroke, stroke, but you got it. Was there another verse? And then the other verse was, um, did come to see you just make it, then the next

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part you kind of just make up. Um, like I'm going off alone. A mai is usually in a market, you know, and he said that to her. No, they

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said that he never got caught. Did he get caught? Oh, yeah, he got, and they decided to pay attention. But I don't know how long he stayed over there because III, I left the place I went where, you see, I didn't have no news after that,

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but I knew the man and I knew the already very good. And you made this and you made the song up about them. Yeah, I make, I make the song for her on her and him and his name was what he did. She didn't want him?

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Oh. Mhm. That's nice. What did, did you, um, did you live off of playing music? That was your job job? Uh, you were JJ A LVL VA and it's, yeah,

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this is from my Patois. They LLC, you mean the charge? Um, ok, es could play a la mu um um flu shows shows J you and me. This is the um um lemon, I isa and put to put to boyfriend. Right?

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God. Correct. To keep up you the do. Wow, that's all fans. What? Oh that's what that is. Let not want another one. We you

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find your step. Oh Mood. So my Mr Mark ST now say we come there now come on and now you want

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another one. Um, if you play it, my hands have bothered me no much to my, I'll give it to you. Uh, yeah. Yeah. Well, that's enough for that. Let's leave.