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so

so

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so

this is tobacco road today

but a hundred years ago when the first

lesters came to georgia it was different

it run 15 miles down the ridge to the

savannah river

through the richest cotton tobacco

plantation in the whole south

past fine big homes that the lesters

themselves built and lived in

and that was a hundred years ago come a

time then when the land fell

fallow and worse and worse but you think

the lessons would leave it

no sir they stayed on

and on but all that they had

and all that they were that's all gone

with the wind and the dust

and this

this is tobacco road

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today

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whoa

hi henry how come can't complain

jitter that's good hey is it is it true

when i

when i hear that beth is back

yes sir last week buried her husband

down a states bearer

wasn't hardly cold before she picked up

and hiked home

they died good say she

is she still full of experience cheaters

worse and more of it

i do declare it looks like my poor

head's going to split wide open with all

this singing and yelling and hallelujan

right in the corner where you are

brighten the corner where you are

someone far from harbor you can guide

across the bar

brighten the corner where you are

right in the corner where you are

brighten the corner where you are

she sure got a powerful voice he had

been quiet since she got back

yeah hold on henry you know you got to

blow out there

i can get home as long as i got one good

one

you want to trade this darn curry in

next year

but so long healthy

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oh

look

ship already supper

what about that wood oh there it is

can't you see it i'll come i can still

see it how come you didn't sell it

hmm can't sell no wood if nobody wants

to buy nowhere can you

you're the craziest old fool i guess i

ever did see

that's the fourth time you've taken that

same load of wood to town and brought it

back

ain't even had it out of the car

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hey here comes love he's told no croaker

sack that's got something in it

turnips he's gotten that coco

sack traps

i sure could use me some turnips right

now everything is love show will give

his wife's paul mouse some of them

turnips

when we we we certainly take a whole

heap of each other

come on come on get back pretend like

you pretend like you didn't see him come

on let's get back

hi alone they've seen you in a long time

hey you know you must be from ward out

talking whatever it is yeah

you got nano cloaker sank i ain't tar

how's pearl love is she all right that's

what i come for

i want to talk to jeter by pearl

what's she doing now she's been she's

been tricking me in again

jeter you gotta say something to pearl

i'm getting dirt sick of the way she's

acting

oh man are you treating her right what's

that got to do with it

she's married to me ain't she what she

done now

well one thing she won't

talk to me what do you wanted to say to

you anything

i don't care what

she could ask me as my back tired when i

come home from the cold shoe couldn't

she

do i think it's gonna rain or when is it

gonna get my hair cut

there's a lot of things she could ask me

she won't say one dirt

word well maybe you don't go about it

right

well i tried every way i know how i

kicked her and i poured water on her and

a

chunk of rocks and sticks at her and all

she does is

bawl a lot when she's hurt you can't

call that talking

well they're not talking ain't anything

to get mad about

why any here never never spoke a word to

me for the

first 10 years we were married

with the happiest 10 years of my life

she runs away too i'm getting sick and

tired of the whole business

every time boise she'll be all right

she had my 13 to remember you listen to

me love benzy if you don't like what

she's doing you just bring her back home

get yourself another wife you can have

early me

oh every time i say anything you all

want me to marry ellie mae

well it ain't no use that's all there is

to it

i want a young wife i ain't gonna take

no

23 year old woman for a wife have

everybody laughing at me

hello hello ali may

the twirl i'm talking about love would

you tell me what

it is you got in that that cloaker sack

i've been

looking at it ever since you come here

and the lord knows i'm just

dying to know turn us by cracking

since a year ago last spring you know

lord only knows how bad i wanted one you

know i could

i could even get a whole crocodile i

could eat me

a whole wagon load full of turnips

between between now and sundown

you don't need to look for me to give

you none because i ain't oh

that's a whopping mean thing

ain't you gonna give me just a bite love

no i'll tell you what i do love all

right i'll make you trade for some of

them maternity i ain't treading trance

with nobody

i'm telling you you'll give me some of

them turnips out i'll go down to your

house

the first thing in the morning and i'll

i'll teleport if she's got to behave

herself i'll tell her that

that ain't no way to treat a man who's

going to the bother a man or an i'll

tell you he's got to stop hiding in them

bushes and ask if it's gonna rain

all right you're gonna get your hair cut

what do you say liv i don't gotta pay

you for that

i already give you some quilts and two

quarts of cylinder oil and seven dollars

to marry pearl

and that's enough you gotta make her

behave for nothing

just one little bitty bite love

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ain't no use you niggling at me

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please love

you all my children all the time blaming

me called

the oh good lord made me

poverty-stricken and

them of them was all the time boring me

out because they

they ain't got nothing deed is it as if

i had anything to do with it

sometimes it looks to me

it looks to me like the good lord's got

it in

good and plenty for a poor man but when

i ain't complaining

no sir i ain't complaining oh

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get me out of here

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give me wish i'd known what kind of

family i ran into

i wouldn't have done it

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i hope love don't hold no hard feeling

again me

yes we'll gather at the river

the beautiful river

hello brother gina hallelujah sister

bessian

welcome home thank you brother jeter

brother jeter will you join me in a song

i'd like to what do we see it's the

old-time religion that's good enough for

me

it's the old-time religion it's the

old-time religion

it's the old-time religion it's good

enough for me

makes me love everybody it makes me love

everybody makes me love everybody

it's good and not for me it'll take us

all to heaven

that is all right you know i i feel

better already

cheetah lester you've seen

who me yes sir this morning when i was

laying a bed thinking

a voice come to me and said sister

bessie get up and go down to cheetah

leicester

he's at it again you you you sure you

ain't got me mixed up with

somebody else the voice said it was you

oh i

don't know not one little sin

well not one big sin maybe a little

sin in general but nothing you could

call a a real sin

how come the voice aid was you oh and

that's easy the lord knows what a

powerful sinner i was i guess i was

about the most

synonymous man in the whole world

nothing lately

no no no lately well i'm mighty glad to

hear that jeter

because i'm out this morning to run all

the sin off the back of road and i got a

good start

how's your folks oh they're all right

they just

uh they end up yet they're a little this

morning this is a little tired

well just tell them i said hey oh sure

we'll sit

cheaters

what are you doing hiding here near

about run into her

is it nice here captain john's coming

back

captain john is dead captain tim it's

all the same

he's coming back to the back of road

he's going to give us farmers credit

again that's what everybody says

hey yeah oh yeah

praise the lord captain john you're

coming back i thought captain john was

dean

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gonna get dead a good move and some and

some seed cotton and some

do you know what i'm gonna put this old

plow down in the dirt

you did seven years ago first thing i'm

gonna do is to

is to burn off all this old broom

session

and feel my fields and do this

see if you can find some harness there

used to be a piece of bridle hanging in

the kitchen

oh i think grandma had it yes sir it

looks to me like dude to me we we're

going to raise us about a

a bale an acre called but the way i feel

now haiti is

just like i used to feel every spring

where you can smell the smoke from the

burning sedge and the

wind going from the fresh proud ground

it just

gets down into your into your soul and

you just

feel like you feel like you gotta

land a bust

what are you doing now spring come and

gone already

i know you started today look

what i don't see nothing yeah

you're starting to fire but rain's going

to come up and put the fire out is it

you ain't going to have no crop know how

cheetah lester

not if mr tim was to come and give you a

mule and some seed cotton some guana and

the sun had shined day

and night you still ain't going to have

no crop this year

what are you talking about you ain't

going to have no crops

because you got a sin on your soul

you stole them turnips from love and

it's the wrong time of the year for

stephen

love is my son-in-law you you can't

steal from your son-in-law because

he's he's killed folks

and right on top of that you got to go

and tell sister bessie

a religious woman that you didn't steal

no terms

no i didn't either no i don't hold with

anybody that steals around planting time

and he sure don't hold anybody that

steals and then lies

and says he didn't you will wait you

will see

i'm scared you

just wait

right i'm scared no little old

turnips is going to scare me

you know sir no no he's getting

scared to turn him

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a little turnip

whoever heard of such a spice over a few

little old

turnips

that was pretty close

you know what i asked what i've done to

love lindsay is your beginning

to bother my conscience

good morning henry hello jeaner is your

sister vested at home

sister passes

by we will meet all the

well hallelujah brother jeter

sister aydah certainly i'm glad to see

you looking so fine

jesus got something to tell you yeah

sister bessie

i don't made me a great big mistake

yesterday but

clean slipped my mind at the time but

the old nick got the

upper hand of me and i all right done

taking some turnips from

love benzene he stole them turnips

yes that's the best thing i stole them

and i'm sure needing prayer about as

bad as any man you've ever seen i i just

got to clear my soul so

nothing won't stand between me and a

crop of cotton

cheetah wear them turnips now well i'll

tell you the two sisters invested we

were at them

oh reception this one

wow well that's a summer tunnel where

nothing love bins you get summer turnips

this time of the year

that ain't no summertime that's a winter

turnip you know as far as i went down

into it after summer turnip

are you sure let me taste it

it tastes like anything all right let me

taste it

here you go hmm it tastes like a

summertime to me

that's a summer turnip all right well

i'd go down there now if i was afraid he

wouldn't he wouldn't beat me with a

stick

well right now get down get down on your

knees

oh lord jesus at it again

he stole all the luck benzie's turnips

and now he's at them all up it's too

late to do anything about that now

but it do seem to me like you never did

see such a stealing man in all my

born dale amen now lord you've got to

make him quit right now for good and all

amen does that clear me it will

if you don't do it no more anybody else

well

why why do you add it you might you

might you might mention

dude because he's the most synonymous

one in the family

dude is this dude yeah come on yeah dude

since the best is going to pray for you

well i do declare if he ain't a grown-up

man now

why when i went away he he wasn't

nothing but a skinny little boy

i guess he must be about 20 now 80 80.

you know i

i do wish he had more sense now well uh

i guess he's about got his growth though

oh

he's pretty too kneel down dude

i don't want nobody praying for me kneel

down for a knock you lay ahead

that's what you got to pay for he he

ain't got no respect for his paw

oh lord save brother dude from the old

nick and make a place for him in heaven

that's all amen lord be pray wait a

minute here

that seems to me like a dinosaur prayer

for a sinner like dude

you don't need no pain he's just a boy

look at the old scoundrel still full of

beans

how are you gina captain jim praise the

lord

captain cube

captain jim see you

you look more like your paw every day

sure i'm glad to see you captain tim

you remember aj don't you oh sure how

are you miss lester

and dude dude don't you go there dude

boy what about

me dude how did you have to have a horny

you're all right nobody gonna give me no

automobile horde come on sit down here

beside me

and i'll bring you

than a horn can he he's the last of my

boys dude is and i

sure am proud of them well tell me do

you know how the crops coming

no crops fraser lords no crops in the

past seven years

nobody got no money to to grow any

that's why everybody's so glad to see

you come to give them something

what's that well all i need is a mule

and some

seed cotton and you know wait a minute

here

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i can't understand how that idea got

around but i'm sorry to

but i i won't be able to help you tell

you the truth i'm in pretty much the

same fix you are

what do you mean captain kim you'd

better tell him pain

well you see mr lester i'm from the bank

in augusta we're down here to collect

money not to lend it

you mean i can't have me no credit to

grow me no crop this year

i'm afraid not why i just got to have

credit cards

me and my folks we're starving here on

tobacco road

miss lester have you ever thought about

getting away from here

and what working them down meals but if

you're starving

i ain't got nothing to do with it my

captain john told me i could stay on my

place

as long as i wanted to he said he

couldn't give me any more

credit in the stores i put fuller but i

i could live here till i

died you know that captain tim yeah i

know he did jeter but

you see that that land doesn't belong to

us anymore

the bank's taking it over there's

nothing i can do about

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all it i can't understand that

but this this was my daddy's place

before me and his daddy's place before

him and

the lord knows how many lessons before

that was there wasn't

there was nothing here before they come

where they they built this road horn

tobacco 15 miles down the ridge to the

river and

no i don't own it you don't own it

and the darn banks on it and they never

had nothing to do with it

we don't want to be hard on you old

farmers mr lester

but we're going to put this entire

section on the scientific elevation

there just wouldn't be any place for you

well if you're going to blow crops

around why can't i grow copped on it

just the same as i did for captain john

i'm afraid that's impossible

please don't let them take me away

captain tim

i'm not allowed to go for long if they

if they send me away i'm

i'm loving to go along for my time

please don't let them take me away with

it

what about it payne couldn't you do

something for this man

i don't know how we could mr harmon if

he could pay a little rent

rent i can't even

get enough money to find anything to eat

with

well what about your children jeter

haven't you got one that could help you

a little bit

why we we must have had

how many i mean about 1718 head

wait what was the powder to blow them up

how much went would it be pain hundred

dollars

for the year 100

when you have to have it well

coming back down here next sunday

afternoon

well i guess that's all i can do jeter

not very much

maybe you can dig it up before sunday

from one of your children or somewhere

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oh gee there here's a dozen new corn i

was taking home

you can use it

bye jeter goodbye captain tim

sometimes sunday afternoon after dinner

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things have taken turn for the better

already

if you and me get home and eat some of

this corn for dude nelly may know

anything about it

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man hey where's my sweater i'm not going

to fuller well where's my sweater

what are you going to pull up for this

time of night sister is going to

buy me a brand new automobile with a

great big horn on it

but where's my sweater seems like i've

seen it in the bed son

don't be too long dude boy

is that is that more crazy than we think

he is

hallelujah brother gina hallelujah i

don't know your sister

is the best thing this is how come you

tell dude that you

you're gonna buy him a brand new

automobile with a great big horn on it

well dude me is gonna need it to drive

around and do our preaching with

you got that much money i ain't only got

that much money from my dead husband's

insurance

but i got a little bit more besides

eddie

sister betty's got herself a whole mess

of money

come on let's go get that automobile oh

dude boy

he was as pretty as you can be hey wait

a minute

how how come dude gotta go with you to

get that automobile

how come i don't go instead of doing

what you don't know nothing about no

automobile

except my horn did he tell you tell me

what

i just gonna get married teacher come on

come on i've seen got no time to lose

species you going out of your mind

brother cheetah tonight the voice come

to me again

and it said marry yourself to a new

husband sister bessie

cause it ain't good for a lady like you

not to be married to a good man that you

could turn into a preacher

and who could help you spread the good

word most everywhere

and it looks to me like dude

you ain't got sense enough to be a

preacher but he wouldn't know what to

talk about when it comes time to get up

to preach

you leave that to me what do you think

about it john i don't care about it one

way or the other

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dude boy gonna be a preacher

i want to wonder how much

how much money sister best is got

you know i wonder if she lend me about

uh

a hundred dollars

so i

wouldn't have to move

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yeah i wonder if she

if she wouldn't huh

how i go about getting away from it

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remind me tomorrow to think about that

idea

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i want to get leave to my dude fill that

in

will you do it for me i can't write

words can you sign that name well i can

touch the pen what is your name

sister bessie rise are you going to

marry sister ice that's him

that kid you ain't going to marry him

are you well that boy ain't hardly grown

he's willing holy oh oh i don't have to

tell that do i

that's the law i can't give you a

license it won't state your age

well i was 38 not so long back how long

back

well i'm 39 now but i don't show it look

here son

what do you mean coming here to marry a

woman that old you want to marry a girl

your own age

now you try and talk him out of it and

i'll start a service right here now

i don't know sister bessie that she

sweet talk me into it

how's that boy going to support you the

lord will provide i'm afraid that ain't

going to be soon

because he ain't going to get married

through this office now don't you try

and stop us

what are you fixing to do and you too

ma'am now look here sister bessie sew it

in the morning all right now dude boy

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waiting

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we shall hungry

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see

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we shall call rejoice

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shall we gather at the river

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yes

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yes

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we

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oh

you got any money yeah i've got enough

if it don't cost more than eight hundred

dollars

who was that you kid no that's dude from

the tobacco road hearing me is going to

get married

you're gonna it's in the back in augusta

you're gonna murder me

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i'll fill it up with gas you can drive

it out of the store right now if you

want to you can use those tags until i

get

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bessie rice touch them oh no no wait a

minute for a big thing like this we

always ask a blessing what do you mean

well first we're singing a little hymn

then we're kneel down then we have a

prayer now just a minute sister bessie

is all that necessary i'm a religious

man

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we shall meet on that beautiful show

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we shall be

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sure

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i wish all my children was here to see

it

hear that pretty sound

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he hit a dream boy

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how come you ain't got that whole thing

out of there i can't get this new auto

bill through if you don't get that owen

out of there

yo you can dude boy shove it just shove

it out of your way

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i know you could do it dude boy

i knew you could do it it just ain't the

prettiest thing i

ever seen in all my life

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let me fix that for you dude boy you

know what you

all upside down and every which man

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broke all right i'd say that don't that

don't hurt to run it over none does it

no

runs like what's brand new yet and the

horn wasn't hurt none at all

sounds just as pretty as it did this

morning hey this is a great

day for tobacco rolls let's see

if you and dude's going to get married

clear all the way or just by leaving the

county

we is married already hey you touched my

car

woman now flip you with a stick dude you

sure is a

lucky boy a brand new automobile to run

around in and

mad all at the same time and on the same

day ain't many a man

lucky enough to get a wife like sister

bessie as

pretty as she is it at her age

yes she knows she'd make it she'd make a

great wife for any man

i don't care where you'd find him i

shut your mouth brother you know

eddie was sister messi just like she's

just like one of the family

yeah just just the same as if she was

born in a you

well everything everything we got is is

half hers and

everything she's got is half ours

she just just you know just like blood

relation ah that's

powerful nice of you vegeta you know

let's see why the proud of you and dude

and that automobile i'm just wondering

how much

how much it cost you well i paid 800

cash for that car and look at it already

800 you know 80

800 to a lot of poor folks would

be a whole heap of money

not the sister that's the after the

money she got from my dead husband

insurance wise

it's just just chicken feet you know if

i was to ask

for 100 that's all it was

what did you say i said that's all the

money there was in the insurance

of course maybe i got 75 cents left over

but that's all the big money there was

you you mean to tell me you ain't got no

hundred dollars to lend me to keep me

from being put off of this ground

ain't nobody gonna give you no money old

fool if bessie had another hundred

dollars she'd give it to me wouldn't you

sister bessie

but i ain't got no more hundred dollars

but i wouldn't count you know we're

gonna get it so you might as well go on

and shut up about it or not do it

then what any everybody wants a

hundred dollars if you got it if you got

a hundred dollars you'll give it to your

husband wouldn't you

come on let's ride somewhere you've been

good boy you don't understand

he was a natural son you wouldn't be

saying things like that to your own

folks

you wouldn't be making things worse than

they are oh

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sometimes i feel like if it just had me

a

stylish dress to be buried in a and be

ready to find me a nice place to lay

myself down in and dawg

no way you ain't never going to get

yourself no new dress

probably promising you that all your

life but you're gonna die and be

buried in just what you got on don't you

say that

you'll go home who's gonna stop me she's

gonna die in that same way

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sit there on that cold ground all night

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it looks like the lord said to me about

every misery he could think of just to

try myself hey

you know he must be going to do

something powerful big for me or he

wouldn't test me so hard

well hope he can see his way clear to

doing it for

sunday

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yeah you know if thomas here he'd help

us

tom was just about the best of all the

children i reckon yeah

lizzie and clarabel they were the best

of the woman

tom tom was there he was about

the best of the boys

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his pearl was about the prettiest with

all that

long yellow hair yeah tom he was

he was even good to me

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i used to hope some of them would write

to me

about give up looking for any of them to

come back to see me but i did think

maybe lizabel anyway would right

maybe they did you know

didn't you never asked at the post

office

well what was the use i couldn't read

what they said anyway

i must have a whole lot of grandchildren

somewhere

bound to have all them boys and girls

off from home

everybody says i have anyhow

sure don't know how other people know

more about such things than i do

looks to me like i ought to be the one

that knows the most about my children

yeah it looks like all we knows is

dude and personally me

and five buried out there in the field

you know i'll i'll bet if tom knows the

fix we was in

he'd give us some money well

they know you're just wondering about it

you can't get to him in time

sunday ain't but two days off if the

lord's figuring on doing anything

for us he sure had better hurry up or

else it's gonna be too late

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now look lord this time i ain't fooling

i'm in a

powerful bad fix you know they're

they're bigging on

taking nadia and me to the poor farm

you know what a powerful sinner i've

been you know there ain't been no bigger

sinner than

me between here and savannah you know

there's nobody been any sorrier for

their sins than i have

once they was done what i am here to

tell you is that

you better watch out pretty close for me

the next couple of days

because i want to do what i got to do

without committing any

real big sin because i i i know how you

i know how you feel about stealing you

know i like

i like sister bessie about as well as

the next one

i wouldn't give her a new automobile

thought but

i'm here to tell you lord

you better step in and

help me out pretty quick or i'm afraid

i'll have to take

matters in my own hand

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amen

sister missy

right in the corner where you are

bright in the corner where

you are someone fall from harbor you may

guide across the bar

bright in the corner where

you are sister doesn't you

sure fine looking woman yeah

well first dude he'll be back in a

minute how you feeling gina

all right

sure spent me spent me a heartbroken

night

you know cheetah i feel just about as

sorry for what dude done as anything i

ever seen in my life

my journey broke my arm them yams smell

good don't they cheetah

yeah can i get you a cup of chickpea

chicory

oh i wouldn't want to be i wouldn't want

to get put me out

good morning why are you ain't putting

me up man

farming with you know i i do all my my

good

farming with this arm and it it's

sitting the same the way it's going

if there was only something on earth i

could do

maybe this is sister bessie well

what is it well the matter of fact is

i've got a very important matter coming

up with

captain kim tomorrow and after that i'll

be all set for the year but

right now i just need a little change to

to get along on yeah

well as i was coming up the road there

i've seen a a load of cut wood over in

that field

i said to myself wouldn't it be a smart

idea if i was to

hold that wood down to augustine sell it

well that that's henry peabody's wood

ate it but he ain't here

i know but it don't seem just right wait

a minute

i ain't stealing it i'm just figuring on

selling it and giving

henry half of that money well you'll be

mighty happy to get it without the

trouble of holding it down to

down to augusta well i reckon in that

case no

siree bob i ain't forgot i'm sensified

hallelujah

yeah would you would you lend me your

card

the whole wooden oh wait a minute you

know i

wouldn't be asking you no favors if it

wasn't for my

arm and putting it broken i can't do no

farming well i'm just

thinking what what dude would say do

what you

you gotta tell your husband everything

no no no

it's only maybe can't tell i'll be back

here my son down maybe with a

with a pretty for you well i guess it's

all right but i reckon you better get

going before he gets back gone

sister bessie i'm gone

get down

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down to augusta and sell it for some

money clear to a customer we'll climb in

and i'll drive you

well i wasn't exactly picking on anybody

going with me i

i was thinking i'm going down there by

myself ain't nobody in the whole world

gonna try this automobile ship me well i

ain't gonna stay here for myself

put it in the wood

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that's violation of city ordinance

number 382 you get out of the shadow of

the woods

ah i'll be waiting here on a corner

somewhere

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you looking for somebody yes sir

i don't want to see the banker susie may

this gentleman wants to see the banker

may i ask your name sure

well what is it jeer she's a lester from

tobacco road

oh yes just a minute mr lester well uh

what kind of a year you're gonna have mr

lester yeah i'm gonna have no years old

unless you get some money

will you come in mr lester

how to do mr lester come right in

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say is he with the banker

oh of course we met the other day with

young tim harmon

i was hoping you'd drop in well i got to

be going now

what's the matter did you come to pay

the money

i come to borrow it well so long

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ain't nobody gonna find no wood well

maybe we better stop back toward fuller

huh and i have nothing to eat

i'm hungry hey wait wait wait just a

minute

you know i've i've been sitting there

looking at that hotel and

i got me an idea and the idea what i got

you know i never spent me all night in

the

hotel in my life and the idea was maybe

maybe we could sell something all three

of us stay all night in that

hotel nobody ain't gonna sell my brand

new automobile if that's what you're

thinking about

well everybody ought to spend them one

night in their life in a

hotel so they have something to go home

and tell folks about what you figure out

selling old man

come here come here come here come here

come here come here

look at that see that spare tire

that ain't no good you can only ride

four of them at one time

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all right good evening here we are

we all want to stay all night all night

in your hotel

okay sign right here yeah you shine

all right what's your name uh jeter

these are what cheater lester from

tobacco road

all right what's his name dude's name is

duke

dude what new to lester right

and hers do it him and me is mad

all right touch the pen

that'll be a dollar and a half

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this way please i thought katie wishes

he could be

us so he could stay all night in a hotel

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now

what are these days i'm gonna spend me

the rest of my life in one of these

hotels

hey i ain't much of a bed for three

people

this is theirs you're sleeping in here

what what are you doing

in the morning give me rumors forgive

her and peace out i know he said you

know i bet you i said

he won't believe me when i tell her dude

i'm sorry the clock

look at that electric light i'm going to

set me up all night long and look at

that electric light

good night good night good night

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so

so

oh

so

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hey there mister hey hello

hi good morning morning morning captain

is it is this the poor farm

that's it

i thought so

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what's that that's the bath bell

the what the bath bell

you have to wash up all over no

dinner

all right lord don't say i didn't tell

you

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cheap this one yeah well it's brand new

hardly broke in yet what are you

bringing it in with an axe yes

why no that don't hurt at least don't

hurt the running of a gun anyway when

this car is brand new

cost eight hundred dollars yesterday

listen i tell you what to do

i'll send you this car right now today

for a hundred dollars and

and i'll throw in the wood a hundred

dollars huh yeah

and a hundred dollars i got to have me

and today what's the great right

well mister only a hundred dollars

stands between me and the poor farm

you sure this car is yours sure it's

mine you don't suppose i'd be selling

you somebody else's car do you

well i wouldn't know how's she running

like a forty dollar mew move over let me

try

yes here

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hold on chief

police yeah

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you crazy

listen to me the car's outside did it

hurt much

looks like the seaboard airline hit it

but what i ought to do is to lock you

all up

or if ever there was a nuisance it's you

to back a road folks

you ain't worth the expense to the

county you're just naturally trifling

and i reckon that's all there is to it

bright in the corner where

you are right in the corner

it made me late already i ain't gonna

put off my sunny dinner any longer than

messing around and a family squabble so

get out of here all of you

get your car and go on down at the back

of road and stay there you mean you

ain't gonna put him in a shane gang

if you don't get out of here i'll put

you in it wait stop all we're wrong and

he's so

hot and we're buried

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yes and don't you never think about

getting back in again

you mean you're gonna ride me to the

pool farm no sir this here machine's

mine investigation and you need about

ruined it already

well that's the way you feel about it

get out of here

and get over my land i ain't gonna beat

your land long they're gonna throw you

off

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what are we chucking rocks at them for

they made me mad

did the man come not yet

couldn't she even get me no snow

i couldn't get you know nothing

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ain't nothing much worth taking anyway i

reckon

i'm sorry lady

i'm not blaming you well maybe maybe

things will be better over there

maybe maybe there sure couldn't be no

worse

either way i gotta talk to you dina wait

a minute

either way i gotta talk to you tina wait

a minute

wait a minute tina wait hi mad at you no

more it's about pearl she's going off

again

you ain't gonna hit me in your head with

a rock don't jump in this hand

pearl's going off to augusta what was

you doing to her

you know i wasn't doing a thing in the

world of that girl step tying her up

with some rope

and she busted loose from me and i

didn't see her since

how you know she is out of the woods

hiding i'll tell you she got off to

augusta

jones peabody cedar and she told them

she's going there

thank the lord cheetah you got to do

something

that's the way they all went love every

darn one of them lizzie bell and

clarence

well i can't remember all their darn

names there was so many of them but they

all done the same darn thing they helped

us

run off down to her cotton mills in

augusta so they'd have

pretty clothes and a hat to wear

maybe she'd come back by herself you

reckon she will

well i wasn't judging on them no they

they didn't like living on

on tobacco road they didn't like the

clothes their mall made for them so they

just all up and went

and run off so i hate to lose her for

some reason mother

she's pretty i just love to just

sit out on the porch and watch her

through the window and she's

combing brushing her pretty yellow hair

you know i get thinking wouldn't it be a

good idea for you to have

have ellie mae come down to your house

and kind of

look after the place and cook for you

all right i don't know of a prettier

sight to see them

just look in the pearls pale blue eyes

early in the morning

it's awful pretty any time of day but

i don't regularly ever forget how pretty

it is just when the sun is coming up

really you got to get married somewhere

and if you don't take a panties to her i

don't know i don't know where

you reckon if i was to go up to augusta

and finally she let me bring her

home oh no watch you should do the same

thing over again

now with lily me that that would be

different

80 80 in me arrival to be going away

pretty soon and

there wouldn't be nobody here to look

after ellie mae

you know you just you just say the word

and i'll have her

i'll have a wash up and come down

well she's mighty old for a wife well

you get used to that

what about what all i give you for pearl

i'll give you the quilts back and see

you can be sure one thing she

she won't be running off all the time

all right

wash up come on down

go get yourself washed up and go down to

his house and fix up for

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chain guys ain't gonna notice what i got

you're just about ruining already

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um

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do you want to go

yes ma

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hey mr payne hi mr payne

come on lady get him get him a drink of

water

you come for the money how you gonna

bust in talking business right away the

minute the band comes

get him a drink of water first

hi mr payne you're glad to see you make

yourself

right at home 80 80. get mr paint a

glass of water

come on hope you managed to get the

money mr

lester mike

and that's a fact

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you know it looks as though i'm in

a whopping bad fixing and no fooling

you know mr payne

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looks like the good lord don't don't

want us to grow things in the earth

anymore

if he did he'd be more careful about it

and he'd make the it make the rich

people loosen up and

lend us farmers some money mr payne

don't care nothing about what you think

about that

mr lester why don't you go on up to

augusta and get work in the mills

well i wouldn't work for them during

meals

that's a place for women

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wine and string on little spools and

things like that

no sir not for me i wouldn't

i wouldn't go up there they'd give me

fifteen dollars a week no no i like i

just simply couldn't

well i just simply couldn't live like

that huh

i guess it'll be a whole lot better on

the poor farm

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well that's all right eddie you you you

go on up there and

i look for the rest of the children i i

wouldn't stop you

i wouldn't do anything to stop you

but not for me me it's different

i couldn't live in the city city don't

like me and i don't

i don't like the city i can't live

propped up i've got to be on the ground

that's that's why i

like the poor farm it's on the ground

and

it's in the country

i better go where you go

well i don't know what else there is to

say

oh i hate this kind of thing just about

as much as anything in the world but

it's not my land

it's not my bank i just haven't got any

choice

you can't blame you you you tell us

first you know

i'm sorry don't mind but

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lion

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well we start now we have to

get there in time for supper

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so

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one left

he's captain tim hi he's captain jim

hi aydah come on hop in come on come on

come on come on come on you you're going

to get you're going to get a ride

right after all

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which way well it is

just taking a walk over to ludlow it's

such a nice day the poor farm

well that's about it captain tim

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we're here jeter

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you won't ever see no poor farm well you

made a mistake

this is my place boy maybe i did

i had to do it i don't mind telling you

jeter i

couldn't really afford it but i had to

do it

well the manager doesn't been here put

us off and if he comes back and finds it

still here

his father sends us to the chain gang oh

he won't be back either i saw him down

the road and fixed it so you and aydah

can stay here for six months anyway

i like to made it the whole year but

i just didn't have the money

you mean you you mean you paid him some

rent

yes i i gave him fifty dollars jeter

here's ten dollars for you to get

yourself some seed and water

what i'm really doing i'm staking you

for six months

to see if you can really grow yourself a

crop this time you think you can do it

answer the man can't you you can do it

you did it for my dad you can do it for

me

good lord just certainly looks i'll have

to look forward

you keep after mata you'll do it all

right if you keep after

you mind if he gets me some stuff out of

that ten house

it's not going to help you get zeta to

work either get all you want

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you know what i'm gonna do

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take a nap i'm gonna raise myself a

bailing acre

i'm gonna i'm gonna i can borrow me a

good new and i'm going to buy myself

ten dollars worth of seed cutting and

you know and smoking it and you

you see all that land there i'm gonna

i'm gonna burn off all that broom sage

and

clear myself about a hundred acres then

i'm going to flower that ground and i'm

going to

clear it as fur as you can see and look

at that sky

80 yeah this is just about the best

people

for planting since the lord's when

yeah i can just i can just tell the way

it

smells that this is this is going to be

a great year for cotton

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when you're going to do all these big

things oh

pretty soon next week maybe

every may go on and nobody left with

us

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where's grandma

my cena since yesterday

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maybe she's going up in the woods and

and couldn't get back

maybe she even died up there he never

stayed away like that in the phone

i'll walk there one of these days and

look for her

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best year i ever had

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one uh

bye

you