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I got some questions about Rodney for a second since he can't speak for himself. Do you? Well, I guess Harry knows a lot of the life, you know, the life story and everything. Um Did you play music? Carry when you were little? Yeah. What did you

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play? Oh, well, we tried to, you know, we used to, well, we still kind of all we was gonna get to fit and try to learn, you know, and mama had to give us like no, for one. I mean, there was one who had the fiddle,

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your dad had a fiddle and um did will, didn't, will have a fun, you will have a fun. We always had fun at the house and, you know, triangles and, well, like, um, tell me who was the baby of the family, Rodney or wait, who wed?

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Wed? Well, who's wed me? I didn't even know about seven years ago to you mean? Six? Wow. Yeah, 67 years, 6, 77 years ago. Um, so did y'all go to school? Did all of y'all go to school? Ok. So it was Wendy and then, then who

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came like in the age thing? If Whitney's the baby, then who's the next to the youngest Burke? And then Rodney and then you had a big family, six brother and three boys and three girls. So, where, where were you all brought up? Mostly around here? From

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normal? Bye. From 3 to 5 miles per moment. Do you, do you, do you remember any of the old songs that Charles used to sing? Your dad? Like all the words, all those old ballads and everything? Well, I can do it in the morning because, uh,

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you then do, and that was like, you know, together, I'll start whenever he, about 15 years old. So, IR, to get off. Ok. Do a bit on this one, you know. Do we talk me as far as the feeling? I have a good morning. Yeah, it's

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hard. Uh, I be Tony, how are you playing the fiddle now? Just the, uh, it's hard, really hard. I started when I was 16 years old. Used to play. Oh, you did when you were 16 years old? Who, who was that? Who was playing in myself?

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And do, will a or not? Was that the Musical brothers? Target? Sorry. We still, well, we played with Jy Sebastien a few times. Who's that? He was there. He died quite a few years back, an accordion player. But, um, a few dances when we first started

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when we start, maybe we had to it, you know, I played until I wins 16 until I was about 20 23. I imagine. I was about 23 when I played. Why'd you quit? Well, get tired of it co is for me, always married and for me

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and, uh, even though you get up kind of late when you're forming, you know, but when I started working by the hour it was different. And right. Well, I, when I lost, when we lost that a, we stayed, uh, few months without playing, I'd say five

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months, six months maybe can do and then came and asked me if I wanted to play? You know, I said, I didn't feel like playing. And you would say, well, if you don't want to play, you would have to get somebody else, you know. So I

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decided I was gonna play, you know, so we played over maybe a year after that and then that's when I decided, you know, I was gonna quit. Rodney. Rodney. Rodney won't play for, he was too young, I guess. Um, really? Well, like, um, where did a

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lot of the songs the Belfast do come from like all songs? Your dad used to sing? My dad and my grandma used to sing, you know, my mom, it's not my daddy's mother, which is the only grandma that need, you know, or, but I remember her

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coming to the house and we sit by her and she'd sing all kind of hymn songs, you know, I mean, she knew like old, did she know ballads, like old story songs and stuff like that? What was her name? Uh, do you tell me her name?

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She had a real pretty name. Like Marina, turn him out to take a walk or whose name? My grandmother's name. Um, your great grandma. I've got it written down if you can't remember. It's ok. So, I, I can't remember right offhand either. The will make. No.

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Yeah, she'd speak French to me too all the time. She was showing her. Well, let's see. Can you think of any, um, what kind of a person was Rodney? Well, he was a very kind person with a good heart but my closest, the closest to me

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to my boy. Yeah. Even close. He wasn't a real talkative person. It was kind of a quiet form. Are you shy? No, it's funny how quiet people, you often feel the closest to people that when I remember it show out, you know, you understand Frank. I

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sure when we had company when we were, you know, growing up you had C do you one? We wouldn't stay there. We were sh sh finance. And after he grew up, he started with the music, uh, he started when he was living in Mau. Well, we,

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we played together, you know, while I was playing me and Rodney, we used to play together. Bracket together. You all live together, mama. No, we were brought up together, you know, after, after uh, when I got married, you see Runner in the, you know, he want

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to learn and we practice. Mr Burman used to say he'd wake him up, he'd come, he'd run and would go to the, to the dance, you know, go out at night and he'd come back and you come in and give back and give a guitar and

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it was neighbors would be LA do and they had a store where mom would live and he said Rodney would wake him up with the guitar, electric guitar at night. He starts singing and playing there and he says, you never, he says I enjoyed the music

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so much. I never said nothing about it. He says Rodney would bring me back to sleep. He'd play for maybe an hour or so when he'd get back, you know, he'd go and listen to somebody come back. He was living in town. You said your store,

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but this is out in the country, mama. Your mama was living in town. And so when uh Rodney would, where was Rodney living? And you were still living out in the country as with your farm. And Rodney was living with his mama or in town with

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the mama and he was still young. Then you're talking about 18 years old, 1718 years old when they move in town. And after that run, they moved by the house, you know, when it was about uh ok, 1415 years ago you were, how old were you

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when you were about 55 rather to build this house by my house? No. Well, we, we broke a house, we built it in around it after work, you know, he wanted to come in the country. So we build a house and then, uh, after that, we'd

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get together, you know, and the kids would get together. My kid, Tony, Tony, we learn more because of Rodney. Rodney would be, you know, Rodney used to come back from work and I'd go to sleep and the house was close enough that I could hear him.

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Tony was small and Tony had the drums and had the tub and Rodney the guitar and played the washtub bass and you played the little drums. And I didn't hear about that. He had a set of drums after, you know, like, uh three or four years

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after the two or three years after the Tony was run, he had bought him a set of drums. Knuckle Will had bought me. They had, well, they had bought me a cheap set like it's Sears. And then that first night I had bus. Yeah. But then

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the virtual second hand, yeah, Uncle will bought me. Uncle Will went and bought me, I think $75 at Mark's store. He bought and they surprised me with it. And uncle Will said, well, he had some money to buy it. So he bought it and then Uncle

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Will said he'll pay me by his dances and they got it like, on a Wednesday, I think, and, or a Monday or something like that. And that Saturday night I had to play. So, so you were playing as a little? How old were you? You were

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just little, huh? I started at 8.5 in the bar playing. Really? So, you must have been about eight or maybe younger. Maybe you would get back there. Exactly. The year it was which year it was. But, uh, he get back and it's, I, I could hear

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him run. He would say did play until I fall asleep. That's it. So, Annie played the bass and then you, you played the drums? Yeah, that is real neat. So, you all have a little home band that was before the other kids were born. Except Trisha

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was, what was Trisha doing? I think dad bought her an organ, a little organ that's, she'd play on that and she, the spoons or something. Nothing. Then it was a while that later on. And she started playing this for Christmas. We used to get together whole

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family Christmas Eve. That's about the only time for a lot of years that I, you know, I wouldn't play, but Christmas Rodney would bring me a guitar in the house, which I didn't have a guitar at one time. I didn't have a guitar at all. He'd

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bring the guitar in the house and he'd make me play with him, the SD, he would like that too. She liked to sing the hymns and left with a kid. Then you have B Accord. No, you were learning how to play the accordion. You mean you

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didn't get that? I know you got to work at anything like that. I never did. I think the, if I were to try it or not, you know, I can still, I got more as in six months, I didn't take it maybe more than that. Well,

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um, so, so you never traveled too much with the Belfer Brothers because you were working on your farm and all you had to keep the show the first time you went to, uh, went the first time her mouth to the Newport justice to believe it. But

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I was working in Franklin, living in Genere, working in track. I stayed for and hurt himself morning all over there. Now, I felt that I couldn't leave my job and I'd leave my job then I'd get back. I almost felt I didn't have a job. Well,

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um, so let's the reason I never, you know, they were going for a month or two. They took you up there, didn't they? At that time? Not to that first one? Because you traveled a lot with them though when you were real little. Well, after that,

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the, let's see, I think it was after that when I started. Yeah, you were too small again. She started to play the triangle with him. Sometimes you were too small. I had built the house. We went and stayed over there for a year and join back.

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That's when you start. That's true. She came, it was two years old when I was, uh, working over there. Not quite. Oh, I think I was around 11 years ago. Oh, really? You look real little in some of those pictures. I have, um, I know when

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I went to Canada, I was right at 11, right at 11. Something like that. You look teeny have been. In fact, I just seen, did you see that in the picture? That one with you? You were a little, little guy in the one I have. Let

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me see where she, did you find any of the old pictures in there? It was seven years you're living there? That's n 71 and maybe four. Well, can you think of any stories to tell about the family and playing music and stuff? Back in the, how

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about Pre Bell for Brother Day? Mark said he used to hang around a lot with Rodney and will all the time. Like when he was 12 years old, Rodney used to go and get Mark and will, and they'd bring Mark with them everywhere and Mark would

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play the accordion, you know, and he did take Mark, sneak him in all the bars and they were, like, really close, you know, he tells the neatest stories. He said they had the best time. The boy I tell him I was 18 years old. He was

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real tall. Go with them everywhere. So, um, and Rodney was a bricklayer his whole life first job. Right. Was that pretty much what he did most of his life? You work as a rough neck? Yes. He worked a little bit as a carpenter with Mr Cha.

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I'm glad, you know. But then he started as a regular, when did he work in the fields? He used to work, didn't he used to work in the fields? I live near base. He worked one year. He was a baby. Then he, he came back to

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town and then when he start, uh, roughneck and be open to him. I don't know when y'all lost the Ricky there, would they, have they, like, you lost a baby? I don't know that brothers. Oh, that's right. No, I did know that. And, um, and he

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was the same age as you. So, there were a couple of months different, I believe. Just one second. Let's see. He'd be, what, around 20 around 20 you'd be that young. Know, to 1920 totally stressed. She's, uh, 24. I'm 24. No, 23. Trisha's 23. I'm 23.

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21. Did your dad teach you how to play the guitar? Tony consciously? I mean, you mean, he actually sit in and taught you how to, yeah, he taught me how to play guitar. No. Singing. I never could. You, you don't sing it all in English, do

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you? Mm. I try. I'm not that good at singing though, but he teach me how to play guitar then. The drums too. On an ashtray. An ashtray. Really? That's what I learned on an ashtray and two spoons. Did you used to go, um, like in bars

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around here playing with them a lot too. Mhm. Yeah. Well, from, um, 8.5 to, till 16 years old then I think, uh, I quit for a little while about, um, a few months. Then I learned how to play the bass then, uh, I started playing what

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I could do in them. I went one night to just set in on the bases, see how it would sound and their arm are so clean. Then after that I went back to drums and then the, and my dad had died, then I went back to

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guitar. Well, you knew Rodney, huh? Yeah, I knew him. I really loved him. I was, you know, like you were saying he was the kind of person you just felt real close to. And I was sitting there some of those people that are real, kind of

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quiet and shy like that, that you don't feel like you're threatened and then, and they're just so warm, you know, like he was, I felt that way about him, like he just kind of got real relaxed around them. You know, I loved him so much. We

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traveled, I went up to, um, port town some ago, a couple of trips up with them in Washington too. What you? Ok. Yes, the surgery was around me wasn't a person to visit LA. No, I'm not either. So I can relate to that, come to the

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house for most of the time. And especially when I would find myself up before that TV. He'd come to the house. Brought me said, no, it was good to see how you and the kids would do. You know, you go checking the pot, you doing something

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for him, you know. Mhm. Take a little bit of coffee. You walk around the house and you walk outside, you have to go around the house outside, walk, walk outside, see the animals and, you know, like to, didn't feel, didn't sit down and, and then you'd

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be gone half an hour. That was it. Unless you come to spend a day. You know, we spend last, the last Christmas we spend together on T news. Are you last time? Mhm. Yeah, I can still stick to the ball. Ok. Yeah. Mhm. Year. Oh, all

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three of them were all the time that Chris was there. Ok. He was poor Paani. Take him fishing. They hunt more than I did my own kids. I wasn't the t to go hunting too much after the kids got old enough, you know, like to go

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camping. I allow me to take my kid. This kid tell boys, let go camp at the, at this camp over there. So, you know, I cook so, and a little bit of music and next morning they'd go kill some squirrels and, uh, cook dinner. Sometimes I'd

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go meet them over there, eat at night. That camp is so neat. I've been to the camp. I, I've never been over here but I've been to the camp. What do you do? You still have the camp? Y'all use it? Yeah, I do. I've been using

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for hunting season but, and all kind of things going on. So we always had rabbit dolls be you come to the house, get the kids, let's go grab and you're not coming. No, I don't think I go to every once in a while I go with,

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you know, or much. That is, that is sweet. I guess when he died. Well, again, as we move in a way, uh, I would call maybe you wonder so Tony. You just as a little kid budded around with your dad in all the bars, drinking beer.

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When you're five years old you were in, you were in with the men's scene at a young age, huh? What did you do, Trish? You stayed home with Ann and didn't let you go. We didn't invite you to invest. What do you mean if you go,

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that one girl keep, you got, um, I was playing music on every weekend. Sometimes two and three times a week we were playing. Really? Why you were in school when you were little? Yeah. And I traveled, you know, too then and, uh, then when I got

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old enough to work and I had to work with that and play music together. Yeah. No, you asked me if you went to school, you went to school. The only, uh, the only one that graduated in the family is good. So, Wendy was a sc, uh,

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he enjoyed school. He was the last one. Oh, he was the baby. It was more the thing to do at that time. So, there wasn't, you know, when we were coming up and we were on a farm and, uh, that just felt like we had happened

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on the farm, you know, because we were a big family, poor thing. I know he needed all the help he could get back in. Yeah. But, uh, Tuesday last Tuesday more than went away. But you go, you go to school and then you miss so many

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days that you're not interested in school anymore, you know? You, you're behind the. Mhm. Was your dad pretty, um, what kind of a person was your dad? Was? He kind of hard on for the, what one that it would be? It's a strict person to raise

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us when you'd say no, it was no, when you'd say yes, it was yes. And he wouldn't, uh, whip us Monday often when you, you know, I mean, it wasn't every week or every other day or something like that. It was maybe every other month or

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when we give you one to give you that. You remember. Sure. He said that's exactly what Dewey said. He said, I never forgot it. He said when, when you crossed him, if you said that it one more time, boy, you never forgot, you know. Oh yeah.

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A lot of people said that daddy was, you know, II I don't like to mention them but yi used to say that it was too hard on us, you know. But uh I want to thank him for the way he raised me. You know, I don't

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think you need to order now. You know, I think, I think he's done a very good job. It's good for you to say that. You know, if you can say that it must be the way, you know, only y'all know how it was. I mean, you

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are the one that's the way, you know, I tried to follow in his footsteps as much as I could to raise money. Really. It's a true compliment. Yeah. Yeah. OK. Raise this ride, you know, she always talked to him but as to person that would whoop

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you or she talk to you, she never, that's what Dewey said. He said she never raised a hand against her. You, I got you better be here because I, you know, that's, that was it. That's like me too. And market. So we learn to love each

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other and share the twin brother, share our food, share our clothes. I mean, when clothes one but the other one, you know, I please with it, you know, she was but to love and to share with you more with your mother than what you got in

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the way. You know, she had her party and good party. Good. Um, you could not for a better about that. What was her name? Your mom's first name? Amy? Was it like ma or, or was it a, was it like a Ime a ma? Y a

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ma y spell her name? That's about all she could do. Really? Not her name? Ok. We used to pick out the rest of mom. Are you telling me a Y a RDOIN or she is an order? Dia, well, I know she worked all those kids on

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a farm back then and you had to go. I hear the girls work too, huh? The girls all worked in the fields along with y'all the wooden stove to cook food for, ok. As much as seven kids at one time. As much as nine people in

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the house for three meals a day. Plus all the people that been slaughtering the animals in the house. A Daddy Sunday. It was, I mean, it was a crowd. It wasn't just uh, 23 family would come plus our family. Oh, really? Cool. Mm. And the boys,

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we all, you know, we had friends, the boy would come and come play with us. Mommy would cook. I don't know how, I don't really know how she did it. I mean, I don't know either. I, I really don't because I'm just, I never cook having

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a kid. I'm not much of a cook but, you know, with the kids and doing all that and then everybody would help, you know, all the, all the women did that and all the men did something else. The men would sit, play cards or they would

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drink beer because they couldn't afford it. You know, but they'd sit there and play a little game of bore or casino and it said you need another pot of coffee, coffee, coffee, sit in the kitchen and one they served in everything was cleaned up that set

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the butter sheet on the table, play a little game of cards or pennies, I guess. Sounds like fun to me every Sunday afternoon. I wouldn't mind cooking if everybody was hanging around together cooking, that would be fun. It's not fun. That turn out too well, then

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back then you had to really do all the work. You have these electric, there's something to be said there for big families. And that way, you know, the kids grow up, everybody had them, the washing dish, washing the clothes, the di, the di all you do

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is, throw it in the wash, take it out. I don't know what you must remember. Where, where did that? Where did some of your songs come from? Where did Harley N abo come from? I know. Do you know? I really don't know. I know where I

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heard it the first time. Your grandmother and your daddy? Right. That's an ancient song. It's ancient, an, I've got a couple of versions of it in the book, real old ones. You know, old, old, old versions of that song must have come from France or from.

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That's right. That's, and it was, I don't remember exactly the way she used to sing that, you know, it was so pretty. They came from your grandmother that came from how you remember my grandma used to sing that I was eight years

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old. That's where that came from. That and my dad, you know, and he knew it from her. I guess my grandmother did speak more French than you do a lot of words that I hear the French Canadian people use. You know, that's the way she used

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to certain words you used, you know where she was, she, where was she from? She was from down there down here. She was here. I came from, uh, well, did she know the story of that, of the demon of the, you know the Cajuns when the

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Cadian is coming down here? She didn't tell you all that story when you were little. Did she? Um, yeah. Oh, I hope they need some neat songs. If you could remember them all. If your brain was just a tape recorder you could cut them on bao.

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Sure. Where that come on. Mhm. Don the way it goes it closer. I can't hear you the tune. You know, I don't remember all the words. I don't remember. That's neat. I never heard that. It's just a little bit of cane on the other side

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of the bayou. Or there isn't very much, there's not much cane on the other side of the, like a mean person. I guess you'd call him a VV. I don't know what they meant by that, but it's like a person. I, I remember the word but

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I don't know what the word means. That's neat. Either a group of people or, you know, they, they say some other words like he was the guy, the VV, whatever they'd say, you know, I was small but I remem I remember that. I used to try

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to say grandma. That's neat. Never heard that one. Ever. You and daddy used to play that on the field? He, he was lazy. Susan, will you get up in English? I said it lazy. Susan. Will you get up? Will you get up? I see you. That

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goes on. Mhm. Yeah. Shit. Oh, I forgot about that. I gotta go teach six. I remember I was talking to me and Ronnie was small daddy went to town. Turn that thing off anyway. Well, it's ok. Well, is it a secret? No. Well, that went to

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town anyway. And he came back with a group of people. They wanted to New Year's Eve, they wanted to make a dance in the country and we had a big house and so they came there and they brought a bunch of gallons of wine because, you

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know, I guess they had whiskey too, but they put the, the wine in back of the back of the bed. They had quite a few gallons of wine and they put the, the, the war in back of the bed and as they need it for them

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to drink, I guess they had whiskey too, you know, I don't remember. I was 12 years old, I guess 1213 years old. And, uh, it was in our bedroom where me and Ronnie would sleep. So they'd go and get the jug and they drink, you know,

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and they'd bring the jug down. So we decided we was gonna take it. We got al, almost got, well, we got drunk enough that I guess around 1230 we, we got up from the bed and we were, we were dancing with the, in the living room

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where they had the music. Yeah. What little you mean? 11 0, 10 years old. And I was, well, we were 2.5 years apart and then that's when mom and daddy knew that. You know, we had never noticed that we were drinking at one. I believe that's

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the first one. The first, you know, one to have taken. It was good. I remember when Me and Peter, I did that one year at T News and they were living right there for Christmas. Yeah, at Christmas. And she had eggnog and all, they had all

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kind of fits and Peter got the bright idea. We came here, we got my guitar, we went and we played in the room, the back room over there and they were having a party in their room. And that, and Peter got the idea. He, he stole

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the fifth of Jack Daniels. He came in that room and it was, which one could drink faster than the other straight. And we started drinking and drinking and started playing on the guitar. The next thing we noticed we both drank that whole fill it a full

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fill. So we said, well, let's go home. And we lived right here, I guess we were 12 around 12. So, and we said we took off through the living room. I had the guitar, I was falling, you know, like I had a shirt. They said, well,

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we're going home, we're gonna walk home and Peter opened the door, we went off the porch, we got to the porch, we missed the step clean off. Both of us got home with the, this said, y'all sure y'all can make. Oh, yeah, we took off, we

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made a deal here. But we got that night. I got sick that night. And that, oh. Mm. Who? It's not old. But then people, years ago, you know, like in early parties we'd have a good time with not much music. You know, because I remember that

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night there was a lot of people too that came to the house and daddy was playing the Field. Clifton. Uh David Big Cliffton. You remember Cliffton? Dave? He had a guitar, he was playing the guitar with daddy and they had somebody playing the try. I don't

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know who was playing the trying anyway. But no, Mike. Nothing. Yeah. On the table. And they put, uh, some chairs on that table where they were playing like a bandstand. Oh, really? So you could hear him over, you know, over the party, over the party? That's

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a great idea. Now everybody's got all these amps and you can't even hear anything with all the amps. You know, it just blast. I live there. They partied, I guess until 223 o'clock that morning. Just with that feeling in the guitar. In the I, we thought

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it was neat. You know, boy, we, we thought that was something big deal on the table. What that at the house? You were 15. So it's just pretty much a fiddle and y'all would just accompany it with spoons and stuff. That's pretty whenever a dude would

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try to teach me how to play the guitar when I make a note, hit me with a bow in the head. Really? He did? No, no, no. I told you you gotta go deep when I go like that, you're going deep. Go, go and see, ok,

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I'll try, next time we'll try again. Come on, do that. Like I'm, I said, listen, you're an, about, what year was that? I wonder only nine. Now, I see. I'm 52 and you were 15, right? I, I it's for, it's 4040 48. It was that recently.

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Must have been th 48 or 3048. When were you born? 31. Yeah. You were born in 31? Oh, yes. It would have been 740. That's pretty recent. Really there. And there was like, no accordion stuff at all in y'all's family until a lot later, right? Like,

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until Hadley came to the scene. That's why the music's so fiddle oriented even though the record is popular. No, to, that was really the era of, um, like JB fa and all that stuff that, uh, we had the triangle from my great grandfather until they got

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lost for Mardi Gras. And I wish I'd have it today. They took it for, let somebody use it and then forgot about it and then