Those clothes didn't get "wrenched". So that reminds me of something I am very proud. Being that I was pretty much raised in the ozarks of MO..I acquired that soft southern accent that is mostly a mixture of the scotch/irish..and even though I now live quite a distance, sooner or later someone around here brings up:"I detect a slight southern accent!" So with this I just wanted to share an old song that I haven't heard in many years..it's something like this: It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day, I was out chopping cotton and my brother was bailing hay; At lunchtime we stopped and walked back to the house to eat, And mother called out to the back door, "Please remember to wipe your feet." Then she said, "I got some news this morning from Choctaw Ridge, Today Billy McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge." Father said to mother, as he passed around the English peas, "Well, Billy never had any sense, pass the biscuits please, There are five more acres in the lower forty I have to plow," And mother said it was a shame about Billy anyhow, It seems as if nothing ever turns out well on Choctaw Ridge, And now Billy McAllister has jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge. Appalachian Version Hit'uz the third uh Jiune, uh nother sleepy, dusty Delta day, I'uz ou' achoppin cott'n 'n' muh Brother, he uz abalin' hay; 'N' at dinnertime we stopt 'n' walkt back tuh the house ter eat, 'N' Ma, she hollar ou' the backdoor, "Y'all 'member tuh wipe yer feer," Then she sez, "I done got some niews this amornin' from upah Choctaw Ridge, Terday Billy Joe Mack-allister done jump offen the Tallahatchee Bridge." Pa, he say ter Ma as he pass roun' the black-eye(d) peas, "Wall, Billy Joe, he never had no sense, pass them 'er biscuit please, There's fiv more aik-res down owna lower forty I gotter plow," 'N' Maw, she sys 'twas uh right down shame about Billy Joe anyhow. Seem like everything goes so bad inymore upah Choctaw Ridge, 'N' now Billy Joe Mack-allister done jump offen the Tallahatchee Bridge. Then you mix in the okie that my family passed on to me and it's quite the something whenever I go back for a visit and then return home! You know, getting back into the "twang" of things! Tamara