Saturday, June 27, 2009
As IT Says, "Yee-Haw!"
The rappsure fixin' ta happen in Anaheim, an' iffen yer not thar, yer a-gonna be lef' behind. Don't be tore up, now, on account o' ah warned yo'.
And I'm waiting for Arkansas Hillbilly to check in and correct my dialect. I'm sure to have something wrong.
Arkansas Hillbilly's version:
"The rappsure afixin' ta happen in Anaheim, an' iffen ye ain't ther, you'uns is gonna be lef' behind. Don't be tore up, now, on account o' ah warned ye'."
He was late, but he weighed in. He and the missus are busy waiting for Sprout and all, so I understand.
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I have a lawyer friend who, against his training and keen intellect, is a fundamentalist. He started talking about the rapture one day and said it was coming soon. I asked him if I could have his new pickup truck when he's gone . . .
ReplyDeletewoohoo!
ReplyDeleteI think it's Rappshure, Mimi. Course I'm from Tennessee so I could be wrong.
ReplyDeleteSusan, you are correct. In North Louisiana it is rappshure, but Mimi is in South Louisiana, which is a world unto itself.
ReplyDeleteAll Right! I didn't have to wait for Hillbilly to come and straighten me out, did I? I think y'all are right. I changed it. I found the translation into hillbilly talk at The Dialectizer, and, of course, they could be wrong.
ReplyDeleteJim, you can have my stuff. Wait! Grandpère won't be raptured. I take that back.
We don't talk at all like that in south Louisiana.
Well, now that I think about it, Mimi, 'sure' is pronounced 'shure,' so the 'haich" may be redundant.
ReplyDeleteSusan, that makes sense, too. I changed it back.
ReplyDeleteI think it's time for me to go to bed.
I am more partial to Grandpa Jones version of "That Ole Mountain Dew." I am from Tennessee originally and this music makes me terribly homesick.
ReplyDelete"There's a big holler tree down the road here from me where ya lay
down a dollar er two. When you go round the bend and when you come
back again there's a jug full o' good ole mountain dew..."
Does anyone remember that great Flatt and Scruggs bluegrass commercial for Martha White Hot Rize Flour?
Mark, I listened to country music on the radio secretly, because in my teen years in New Orleans, it was way uncool to like country music. One of my favorite shows was Louisiana Hayride and, of course, the Grand Ole Opry. I loved Flatt and Scruggs.
ReplyDeleteHere's an interview with Earl Scruggs on NPR from 2006.
This Yankee boy'll keep out of this.
ReplyDeleteAnd as we said in my youth, "I'll meet you here, there, or in the air."
I remember the Flatt and Scruggs TV show. I always liked Earl Scruggs best. I love it that he is still active musically. There was something about the angle of Flatt's hat and the way he rolled up his nose that just bothered me. I also had no love for his voice. That of course was just because I was a singer myself, and had no appreciation of the high, lonesome sound of a tenor then.
ReplyDeletePaul, you were deprived, mon cher.
ReplyDeleteSusan, somehow I connected with country music, and I can't explain why. No influences in my life led me there.
Sorry, Mimi. Spud and the Mrs. have been keeping me busier than a one armed man in a beard pullin' contest these past few weeks, what with getting ready for Sprout an' all. You'uns is just gonna have to forgive my tardiness.
ReplyDelete.
"The rappsure afixin' ta happen in Anaheim, an' iffen ye ain't ther, you'uns is gonna be lef' behind. Don't be tore up, now, on account o' ah warned ye'."
Hillbilly, thanks. You're the final authoriteh.
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