Pat Smith interview with Nancy H. Prince and William H. Reynolds

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This audio begins with Nancy H. Prince discussing farm life and speaking in detail about how to make butter and kill hogs so that food does not go to waste. At 7:49, she talks about soap-making and how they used to wash their clothes with wash buckets and scrub boards. 10:55: Next William H. Reynolds briefly talks about his life as a lawyer and a judge in Clayton County, Georgia. He then explains that Sacred Harp Singing started in New England at gospel singing conventions, after which it became popular in the South. At 15:57, Reynolds details Sacred Harp Singing records and provides his critical opinion of them. 20:26: Reynolds reads the lyrics for the Sacred Harp Singing song White. 21:22: A recording of a choir plays. 24:00: Reynolds describes attendees of a Sacred Harp Singing Convention in Fife, Alabama, and their impact on his life. At 28:18, he sings a verse from the Sacred Harp Hymnal Greenfield, then reads a verse of Plenary. The audio ends with Reynolds telling a story about a bully named Burt Lynch, but he is cut off before finishing.
Nancy H. Prince (1895-1975) was born in Kite, Georgia. She married Lester C. Prince (1893-1977) and had six children: Ephraim L. Prince (1918-1989), Juanita Scarbrough (1923-1971), Agnes Clemmer (1925-2011), Jean Moore (1927-2017), Mary Ellen Parker (1931-2015), and Martha Jane Helton (1931- ). William H. Reynolds (1890-1984) was born in Bremen, Georgia, and grew up in Clayton County. In 1941, he married Clarice Pearl Reynolds (1902-1977). He worked as a lawyer in Clayton County before becoming a Superior Court Judge of the Clayton Judicial Circuit. In the 1920s, Reynolds purchased land in Morrow, Georgia, to create a personal nature preserve. In 1976, he donated the land to Clayton County and it later became the W. H. Reynolds Memorial Nature Preserve.
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(.y".} ---> 4 \ FOLKLORE COLLECTING PROJECT by: Pat Turner For: John Burrison Folklore .300 December l~ 1969 FOLKLORE COLLECTING PROJECT The first half of this taped session is with my seventyfour year old grandmother, Mrs. Nancy H. Prince, from Morganton, Georgia, in the North Georgia mountains. Mrs. Prince, formerly a Harrison, lived in Kite, Georgia until her marriage to Lester C. Prince of Morganton. She has experienced all these traditions personally and dealt With them in everyday life. She and her husband live on a small farm in Morganton and still have pigs and cows)however, they no longer practice the traditions talked abotm here. MRS. TURNER: Tell me how you used to make homemade butter. MRS. PRINCE: Well you have a cowan' you go to the barn, where your cow i.s, an you take your wa milk bucket, put che some water in it an take ye a cloth with you, wash the cow's udder, t,hen you dry it off, then you go to milkin' milk in the bucket an you take it to the house 11.n you have a double clean cloth an strain your milk in 11. crockery jar or glass jar (p11.use) an cover it up an long time ago we didn't 2 have ice boxes an freezers so we had to take it to the b basement an keep it cool or sometime if ye didn't have a basement you'd put it in a bucket an put a lid on it an tie a rope an let it down in the well. But you couldnlt keep it back then like ye can now, so it'd get sour an if you want'd to make homemade butter you'd put cha milk in a churn; you had a wooden churn dasher an a lid on the dasher would go down through the fuole in the middle of the churn lid em you'd churn an the but when you got through churnin' the butter came, it'd come to the top. lin you'd tRke your butter up an wash it reRl good until all the buttermilk was washed out an then you'd ah salt it an if it had, still had water in it, was puffy butter you'd have to let it get cool an then work all that water out of it. It'd be solid, firm butter. lin if you wanted to mold it in molds there was wooden molds some of 'em were round, some of 'em were square but, Rn they were, had a s stem ah round hole in the middle of the ah mold an a round piece of wood that you'd put that stem in thare an st into then put it in the round piece that went into the butter mold an when you got the mold packed full you'd take that stick an press it out Rn stem, an it'd have, then you'd hRve your butter molded. lin lots of 'em des different designs on 'em. MRS. TURNER: Do you know Rnything about killing hogs? IVIRS. PRINCE: 3 Yes .ma 1m. We used to kill ten, t"relve, fourteen, an fifteen at the time. You'd kill ye h-hogs ah you'd shoot 'em or cut their throats an some knocked em in the head with axes or hammers an 1. you I d cut their throat an let 'em bleed an after they'd bled good why you'd have you a pot or a drum of water just about bailin' an some sharp knives, you'd lay 'em down on some planks an scrape all the hair off 'em wash that off, wash 'em off good an hang 'em upan you'd cut the heads off an let th then wrJen you went to g-get the entrails out to gut 'em, you split 'em from the neck all the way down an you'd have ya ' wash tub sittin' under 'em to get the entrails an the lungs or the lights, the an the liver an heart all ou an out, an ]vIRS. TURNER: What did you call the lungs? MRS. PRINCE: The lights An ah some people eat, 'em an some doesn't but I like 'em cooked together. ,A,n ah the entrails, lots of people eat them get the fat off of 'em you have to-- it takes a long time to wash lem, but they're good, you can boil em until they 're real tender an fry 'em an the ham--when you let--when it gets kindA. cool you cut the hA.m, if you want pork chops you have to split the hog down the middle of the backbone an if y then you kin cut jest a little way from the ribs an you cut that up have ye ah pork chops but che have, then they's the rest 4 of the ribs ya have to cut that out but if you leave it, if you don't split it down the mJ.ddle you cut on el\ch side to get the ribs out an then you have the backbone an you cut the ham off an the shoulders an the ah middlin's is what che make ye bacon out of. MRS. '1'UH.NgR: What do you do with. the head that you cut off? MRS. PRINCE: Oh, you can trim lots'a meat off'a the head when you trim up your other meat an you can make sausage or you can make press meat--Lotsa people used to call it souse meat but it, they call it press meat tis the proper name--an you salt an when you get through cuttin' ya meat up you ah you wanta. salt it before-before all the animal heats out. Because if it, it'll take salt better and if it freezes before it takes any sa.lt, when first kill 'em, why, it it'd ruin. It won't be any good and after it stays in for six weeks you're supposed to wash the salt off an fix ye some borax an meal--some people put syrup an some people just make a paste outa that meal an borax an pepper an you wash ye the salt off, first though, an then ye put that paste on it an hang J.t up an it'll keep 'til next fall an be real good. 'I'hats smoke house cured country meat. MRS. TURNER: Can you make hominey? jViRS. PRINCE: 5 Yes ma'm I've made lots you get'cha shell ye corn offa the cob an ye have to have a wash pot for that. You ah put'che cor put'che lotsa water in ye wash pot an pour ye corn in there You think you jus gonnet have R. little hominey when you pourin your corn in there, but when it gets through it'll be like cookin' rice or peas, you'll have dried peas, you'll have a whole lot of it. An you get it to boilin' real good of course you haft to have plenty'a wood to keep ye fire goin' because it takes 'bout all day to cook it an ye pour enough lye in it ta t the wat ta after ye corn gets ta boilin' good to make it an amber color. An that's ta eat the husk and the heart out. An when that husk begins to get off gets done enough the husk an the hea.rt begins ta come out. 'l'hen you have ye a tub of cold water an you wash it real good. An then, clean ye wash ye wash pot ou~an scrape all that out "m an'na put'cha hominey back in there an cook it a.gRin. An when ye get through that time ya haft13. put it in another tub'a cold water an wash it again. An it makes reill good hominey. jvlHS. TUHi'IER: What do you know about making soap? JVJRS. PIUNCE: Well ya still hafta use the old wash pot, an wood, an water. Ye can take clear ah grease, Rny kind ah drippins' from any kinda meat or you can take ole meat where you cut the meat off bones that has some fat. An the first thing you do though 6 you put put all this meat-the meilt in the ah s substance in there iln some water. An boil it real good an long time ago w-we didn't get lye in cans we got it in balls. It WilS the size of a, a little larger than a baseball an it hild ah turpentine around it. An ya had to beat that ah crack that turpentine all off. An put'cha lye in the pot Rn it'd eat off, even eat up bones. An when that got to bailin' good, it'd the lye'd eatin' up all the substRnce then you pour'd Rh wRter in it. It'd look like syrup candy when it was boilin' after it got til. bailin' real good an you put three ah two and a half gallon bucket, water buckets of wl'lter to the three balls of lye an when it got cold",,-you boil it a good bit though After ye put' cba 1'mter in An when it got cold, you could cut it out in bars, an put it in the put it in we put it in the smoke house. I put me il plank in the smoke house an cut it out in bars an put it in there to dry. An then when it got dry it really "lOuld clean clothes. It WRS good soap. MRS. TlJRNER: How did you used to wAsh back in the old days? jif1H.S. PIUNCE: Well, we still had to use wHsh pot Rgin. But we had we didn't have ah running water in the house an we had to go out to the well. An we used to have windlasses. You could have a windlass thilt you turn with yer hand turn the 8.h round An round a.n pull the water up or you could have a teakle 7 Ah thFlt 'tc! the rope'd go through fm you could pull it up like thAt. An 0 wAter bucket Vlell bucket on U.ed on R rope, you l:Ad'tA put you R fire Rround the \'I0sh pot. Put'chR some wAter j n it :1n we brld Vlrlshtubs an scrub bORrds. We "iRS scruhed Ollr clotiBs in the v/I1sh tub on the scrub-bOArd then ",'e put 'em in the vmsh pot FIn boiled 'em. We put some A this lye SOA p in it, in there for suds A.n then Vlhen they boiled real good Vie took em out an hRd Rh tVlo FIn three tubs of cleRr WAter to get to fnr 'em to get be nice FIn white An cleRn. 7 ah that'ta the ropeld go through an you could pull it up like that. An a water bucket well bucket on tied on a rope, you had Ita put you a fire around the wash pot. Putloha some water in it an we bad washtubs an sorub boards. We was sorubed our clothes in the WR.sh tub on the scrub-board then we put 'em in the wash pot an boiled 'em. We put some a this lye soap in it, in there for suds an then when they boiled real good we took em out an had ah two an three tubs of clear water to get to for 'em to get be nice an white an clean. $ 9 9 10 The second session is viith Judge i'Tilliam H. Reynolds, who is seventy-nine years old. Seventy-four of those years he has lived in Clayton County. His first four years were spent in Bremen, Georgia, but his family before him had lived in Clayton County and moved to Bremen because of a land purchase. During the singing portions of this recording the judge sat in a chair, leaned back on its back legs and led the singing vvith his hands as if he were really there. JIJDGE REYNOLDS: My name is William H; Reynolds otherwise known as Bill, Ole Bill Reynolds. I was a lavvyer a long time in ClAyton County and I served one term as superior court .judge of Clayton Judicial Circuit. J am seventy-nine years old and I have been in retirement for some time. Vie are, my friend Pat Turner and myself are in my vvif in my livin l room here an she's asked me to make some statements an give some information an my impressions of the Sacred Harp Singin'. TImSacred Parp Singin' came dovvn from Elizabe Elizabethian England to America. It vvas first sung in Nevv Engla.nd an it uz drifted down now to southeastern part of the United States. The west-northwestern part of Georgia an the eastern part of Alabama is the Sacred Harp Singing uh Convention singin t (laughing) uh in the United States. Although iz, th-there iz sever8l other 11 Southern stfltes contribute largely to the nnnu!'\l singin' as a boy not over eighteen years old 'hen they held singin's at the courthouse at J()nesboro. They's been a mRny'a long year since we've had A singin', SRcred Harp Singin' in our county. Vie have conventi- ons the largest singin', lRrgest singin' we have in this, usin' this book is a convention held on the Saturday and sec second Saturday and Sunday in September each year. They generally uh hAve it at different places. They held it at the last session wuz at Villa Rica, Georgia an the 1970 session will be at Culmen, Alabama. I't J have often sRid that :r go to I-I'm A amateur singin' of sort,s before my voice failed me but I but I go to these conventions or these singin's J don't try to indulge because J wanta' do I wanta' listen. J hAve said that if J was blind an could hear I would go to hear these singin's, T have SAid if I was deHf an could see I would go to see the people in action an see the enthusiasm they Sh01.,. Old an young, old person's an-an ear youngster's in their teens uh have, those Vlho have been brought up in the Sacred Harp Singin' tradition contribute to these uh conventions. We uh they organize the the convention or the singin' by the singer's gatherin' in front of the aud churches or aud Bud auditorium; wherever its held. 'rhey's bass singers in one part, the tenors in another part, the altos an the sopranos in another pRrt. The they don't use any music ... instrumental music; its all vocRl and uh R man, A woman, or child gets up to 12 lead an they announce their numbers that they're gonna sing an on account of the fact that most of the time there's so many leaders there that they restrict the leaders to ti'fO selections only. The people, as I have stated here, people who have been raised in this form of singin' they're very entllusiastic about it and uh it gives me pleasure I an when I go to one a these, I try to move around an watch the people--the expressions on their face. J go as much to see as to hear. I have had various and sundry experiences over Alabama singin t or when they meet in Georgia. The largest one of these s singin' conventions Jive ever attended was nt Fife, Alabama. Uh it was in a very large Primitive Baptist Church. Allan Lomax, who has gathered folk songs allover the world, was dOi'm there with expensive tape recording but it a it is not entirely... he the records he made there wuz not entirely satisfactory because some of the parts were not exactly where they should have been. Maybe the soprano might be emphasized over the bass and tenor. I bought one of his records it is not entirely satisfactory to me. My friend, Hugh McGraw at at Bremen, Alabama has uh published a record an uh it is the most perfect recording that I've ever seen. Now he got a group of singers together, placed the separate parts equally uh divided located excessibil. with the excessibility to the microphone an in a place where they were had no exterior noises. One of the Allan Lomax records w (laul!i:hing) that I tried 13 to play here some fe11a wfls uh beat'n time with his foot on the floor. (Laughing) This'll show you the difficulties is m recordin' one a these singin' conventions ???.satisfactory. Now this record that uz published by Hugh McGraw dudn't h:we all thRt'ah uh you can't critize his record because he he organized it correctly. Now the people who h:wen't attended one a these singin's sometime don't get much out of it. I have heard people list~n an an lRugh. It uz really funny to 'em the way they th th uh people s uh the way they sing the notes first; the fRh-so-1Ah-me, an then sing the wordS. An they don't sound too I'mII ; some people <jon't ever like it but az I have l leArned to love it over the years lih l'hey sing these notes first, then !l.fter they've sung the notes then they sing the words. An nOl" at this point I believe we will just uh pl uh on my friend's record Hugh McGraw's record--here I believe we will sing my favorite selection of all the songs I've ever heard outa this Sacred Harp singin l book. The hymn tune, 'vrhite' uh it its very difficult when you go to one of these singin's to get now this is 'White' as been my one'a my as been my favorite for all these years but it's very difficult to get a song sung at these conventions becA.use the leRders Rll have their selections when they get up fer to sing their two songs an they Rn uh its very hard to get your I've been to si conventions several times when they didn't play 'White' at all ???.Out here, eHst of AtlantR, lit ll.t Jil'lrdmlm I3l'lp t Primitive Baptist Church uh, ole doctor doctor from Newton County uh Covington uh he's paralyzed in one arm an he couldn't hold a book very well. The last time I saw him there he sung one er his two selections, '1,IThite' wuz one fer 'em an before r'tnother convention WAS held he had gone on to his eternal reward. Now, I believe, the benefit'ev I'lnybody who ",rmts to listen to this record in s times to come. I wmta read the words so you'll understl1.nd better uh the verse verse: lYe fleeting charms of Earth, farewell, Your springs of joy are dry. My soul no", seeks another home; A brighter world on high. And the chorus: I'm a long time traveling here below, I'm a long time traveling away from home. I'm a long time traveling here helow, To lay this body down. The second verse: Farewell my friends, whose tender care Has long engaged my love. Your fond embrace I now exchange, For better friends aboffe. An the chorus :Ls I'epeated to the second the chdrus is the same in to the second verse. [The song 'White' is sung from Sacred HA,rp Singing At the Old Country Church; recorded in the studios of Prestige Productions, Inc., 2717 Nineteenth Street, South, BirminghRm, Alabama, 35209~ 15 JUDGE REYli!OLDS: At this singi.n' a which I spoken about on this recording at Fife, Alabama there vms a. physi,cl\l1 who had 8, hospital in the eastern part of Texas an he was raised in Northeast Alabama an he comes over there to these annual singin's uh when I when they adjourned for lunch T met triO mFm an introduced myself an an uh ",hen they announced that he's a goi,ng ta sing, they Rnnounced thAt he was a doctor, an told I'lbout where he' 5 from an all like thllt so in jest T said to the man "'hen J told him who I was T asked him, 'Can you cure my arthritis?' ub Lawyers an doctors are pla.gued whenever they try to go anywhere people try to ca.ge some in some information advice out a 'em fer nuthin'. He kne\-1 what J meant "'hen I (Laughing) when T asked him if he could cure my arthritis. He said, 'Ain't it sop uhWe went on the out.s1,de there an they had tho longest picnic table I ever expect to see. The largest va.riety of foods; there's hardly room between dishes on that long table I\n I 'walked 11.11 around it because I just ",anted to look llt it. Look, so J met this doctor out there an he'd e;ot his plate tray filled an 1: wuz a meeti,n' him a.n a (L:1U{';hing) a man ",uz (Lau{';hing) ",aIkin' by his side t.here an evidently he had asked him a medical question, tryin' to e;et some free advice an the doct.or llh ah ...he win I winked my left eye an he winked his right eye when \'1e met t.here as he said to this man, 'That must be 16 that might be uh an leavin' a long jaw, Latin ,ja\"T breakin' name says, 'I've seen a good deal of it this yea,r.' (Laughj,ng) So l l met him at another convention a year later an he'd seen me just once an he callen me by my name. I saw him again at the eh Villa R:tca he'd grmm a beard an looked like a wj,se man ??? goatee. An I referred to him the time that he remembered me from one year to the other. An then I asked asked 'em 'bout that time that he told tha.t man'it might be so an so I've seen a good deal of it' I told him the story about Leonnrdo DA Vinci, the famous sculptor, artist :tn Ttaly. S,'}mebody asked him how hO\"l to carve carve a.n elepbant. Leonardo Da Vinci said, uh 'You take a large piece of marble an you chisel off Rll of it that don't look Iike an elephant.' One a the most remRrkRble men that I've ever seen at these sj,ngin's is Unc they call him Uncle Will L Lameneck uh He \'!as about ninety years old the I}) stwhen J10 sang at this big convention. An na my wife was I wllnted her t,o see this man, this saintly lookin' man an it reminded so much a one of ()ur ole kinsmen. 1. wanted her to see him sing an she got ATound there ,just as Uncle Will had announced his number rID the number 'VIClS one of my wife's father's fnvor:l..te songs. She'd henrd him s),ng it t:l.me an time agin. rt 'VTHS the tune 'Greenfield' :I.n the book here [acred "err lIymn Boo!{l I\n now in my feeble arncked voice, Jill try to sing one verse o.f that song: (Singing) Hm~ tedious an tasteless the hour when ,Jesus no longer I see; S~,eet prospect, S~Jeet, btrds, an sweet flm~ers have lost nIl their sweetness to me. OhY Ami.d summer sunshine the d:Lmthe fields ??? out in vain to look gll.y. But \~hen I am happy in Him, Decemberts as pleasant as May JUDGE mnNOLDS: 17 At this big singin t in Fife, A.labama uh, an old friendta mine an a very enthusiastic supporter of Sacred Harp Singin l over the years, sung 1'. favor:i:te song l' mine: number thirtyeight in t,he book cnlled, t\rhndham. t The re I have a recording of that song as it was lend by A. M. Cagle but tt was not a per.fent record:Lng. No"" ll'lter on in this tl'llk lnter on in this talk 1'13 live sl'lid, I "I!l.nta sing a verse uh .from page 162 of the Sacred Hl'lrp Singing Bor Book 1'n the t "J.t'.I.~l L. :~>, tPlen1'ryt uh I'll rend the words so when I try to sing it youtll know whnt I'm sayin l : Hark from the tomb 1'. doleful sound, Mine l3ars 1'ttend the cry. Ye liVing men come view the ground joThere ye must short,ly lie. JUDGE REYNOLDS: Gov(~rnor Boh Taylor of 'rennessee as a United States Senator from that state was a wonderful uh campaign orator. He uh one of his bes stories that he told, over an over on the an the oreh pol:itical campaigns. In those days when they Di......rIEL 'R.z.:en. 17.&"i_ . WINTER. C. M. e. '-8 38 . Key ofF Major. it was at Jetu$:l.tem the f~a.."t of the <.k-dication, and it wa~ wiutet'. "-JOlt:>: 10 :-22- h ..... -m ~- e-8 a ,q ~~ ~__ ~~. t 3-8- - ----=-- -- --- ~m- " P-~-r ~. tf1 ~=T~4>.: ~tf-'-r-h=fF-1 ~~~$ ~E~-L~t~*~=~. 4--=J=~n . His hoar-y frost, "his f1eec - y snow, De-scend and clothe the ground; The liquid streams for - bear to flow,In ic - y fet-tersbound. ~~B&be~~FF~t~~~:E~~1*fi~n ~*i - t [ffii-Fh&~[FfJgw=~~-mr-nmE f> W~~J See history of Daniel Reed under tunt: of "W}ndham.',', u Win~er" appears,!n the" Southern Harmony," in 1835, page 293; H Missouri Harmony," IS37, page 51, and in other song books_long pnor to thlS. See ColumbIa Harmony, - 1793. - - , . WINDHAM... L. M. "Wide is the gate. broad is the ',""'3.)" t1u.t leadeth to destruction. Straizht is the gate, oa..-row i.o; the way ~t leadeth uoto life. "~MATr.r: 13, 14. lSAACWATT,1709. KeyofE ~1iuor._ _ _ . D~"TEL R.E.o\.D,17&5. _~=@-L.rMa:::rn~1$l:g;ij~~-~e-i~~gr=:-::r:;qLEIJj I. Broad is the road that leads to death And thou-sands walktogeth - er there; But wisdom shows a nar - row path, With here and there a ~v-'ler. ~ ~ ~._.~ ~G J ~f4J-J-~=@Q4fZ5t~-a=~#~~~=:~~ ~lci~~1 .z. ''De - ny thy-self, and ~ethy cross(.,j" Is the Re-deemer's great command; Na:ture must count her gold but dross, If she would gain this heav'nly hnd. _4[2 J J~1mlIJ~~ fimt=t~fl- Et~~ [@tD 3- The fear-ful soul that tires and fai~J And walks the ways of God n~ore, Is but es-teemed .3l- most a saint,And makes his own cestruc _tior. sure: ~ ~ 1~J:t'lh ~M=t=~:~~"Ff~~~)fmLf~" f=~J~~l .~ =!-- - __- =:":t::: i ""---E i I C-.--== ir~ :.I 4- Lord, let not all my hopes be vain, Cre: ate my heart eOn a tire ly new, Which hypo-crites cou!dne'~r at-tain, 'Whkh f:lls~ aposbtes nev-er knew. Daniel Reed the auth"or of the music. was born 17;'7 He published the" At':'lerican .SClOg Book," :n I7S5, H CchJrnbia Harmonit" 1793- He a150 compiled. and publi-hed se'veral other selections. He dted at New Haven. Conn., 1836. The musIc first appeared in the "Amer!can Sinc-ir-g J::)ook." He ~s the auth0rof a number""of standard tunes. "Sherburn/' "R;J.<;sia," "Stafford." and other psalmodies. He is an American compOser. <::> I'!ith the brains of Pnttie NEls I t),,~t i.t wns forced Ul'on me, An that, I did it in r:re.~t Il.{';ony of s0ul. An novI, oh, Lord, I'm About to be forced to pnt in his coffin this poor, miserC\ble v.'retch who klS Attll.ckerl me here todAy. Oh, Lord hAve mercy on his soul 8n t;lke CAre of his helpless \ddo\'.' nn orphnns \'Ihen he lis gone. TLen lie tlrose ,,hettt ng his Dtlrlo\'1 knife on hi s sloe sale h'rk from the t.omb [\ doleful sound. Mine ears Rttend tt'B cry. Ye mortnl men come vi el'" the Ground, 1"here ye mUl>t shortly 118, But ','hen },('~ looked ".round I Bert vm s vone. 'f)1('11'8 '1'1'\1> no thi np; in sip:ht hnt ,~ 1ittle cloud of dnl>t far up the rOR.d, followin l in the W~kB of tile vRnishi.n' chAmpion. 19 18 didn't have television or radio; a man could tell a story a Memphis or Nashville an with different audiences an he wouldn It; have to change his stories everytime bet\'leen times. NowadayG you oan't tell a story but once on the television when you're campaignin' for public office. An one of his beG stories concerned a bully named Burt Lynch. The bully of the mountains who stayed in an old wlJter mill an picked fights with everyone w'ho came along. He had whupped Adam 1'1heeler the dHy the ''leek before r1. new m:i.nister came t,o the mountRins. Brother Billy Pattersen preached h:l.s first sermen frem the deor of the mill. He denounced sin in all its forms: whiskey, gamblin', an all ferms a wickedness; named Burt Lynch as n morRl cownrd. The next week the preacher met Burt Lynch in the pubon the pub in the public road. An Burch Burt sRid, 'Well preAcher yeu had your fun last Sunday, talkin' about me an my times come no",. I'm gonna give you 11. thrashin' within an inch of yo' life.' The preacher trled to argue with 'em An reRson with 'em but all to ne avrd.l. But then t,he then he slJid to the bully he SlJid, 'New will you la let me say A prayer before you st,qrt in on th:Ls assRult?' An he reluctAntly said, 'Yes, I recken so, but be in a hurry. I'm I'm I haven't got much time. I wanta get Ilt my 1'1Ork.' So A.h.ut,he prercher (LAughing) preAcher knelt down t.here in the road an uttered this prayer: Oh I Lord, thou knowest that "Then I killed Bill Cummings Rn .John Brown an ,Jerry Smit}' an Levi Battles, that I did it in self defense. Thou Imowest, oh, Lord, An when I cut tl,e heart out of young Shingler an strewed the p;round with the brni.ns of Pattie Mills, thn.t it was forced upon me. An thRt I did it in grea.t ngony of' 50ul. An no", I oh I Lord I IIm nbout to be forced to put in his cof'fin this poor I miserRble wretch who hRS att.ncked me here today. Oh , Lord have mercy on his soul an take CR.re of his helpless widow nn orphans when he is gone. Then he I'lrose ,.,het,t:ing his Barlow knife on his shoe sole s:tngi.ng: Hn.rk from the tomb n doleful sound. Mine enrs nttend the cry. Ye mortal men come vie'" the p;round, Where ye must shortly lie. But ",hen he looked a.round, Bert was gone. There WIIS nothing in sight but 1\ little cloud of dust fAX' up t.he rond I followin' in the w!'Ike of the vanishin' champion. 19 \ ..._-_._----..,.,..",' liB;~,,:t 70 t( 20 -,', I:ELEASE ~( By letting us collect your traditions--stories, Dongs, music, sayings, riddles, or beliefs of earlier dsys"-You have made a valuable contribution to preserving and understanding Southern history, and especially the history and way of life of your community. Because you have given unselfishly of your time to do thiS, the Georgia Folklore Archives, whose representatives are dedicated to preserving these traditions, wants to protect your rights to this material by guaranteeing that it will not be used for unscrupulous commercial profits. By signing this sheet, you are giving us permission to use this material for educational purposes so that people who are interested can understand how life was in the old-timey dsys. 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