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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| "Nobody Loves Me but My Mother" | |
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| "Mama's Memoirs" | |
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| "I Blame It All on Mamma" | |
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| Making the Honky-tonks with Mama | |
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| "I Get Born" | |
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| from Raney | |
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| from No Time for Sergeants | |
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| According to Bubba | |
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| "Papa Was a Democrat" | |
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| "A Late Encounter with the Enemy" | |
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| from The Redneck Bride | |
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| Dying Properly | |
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| from Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady | |
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| "The Fortunate Spill" | |
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| "Levitation with Baby" | |
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| Fighting for Folks | |
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| from A Confederacy of Dunces | |
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| from Baby Doll | |
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| Mary Grace's Reception | |
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| "The Beard" | |
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| Modern Baptist Bible Study | |
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| "Typical" | |
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| "More Carters" | |
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| "A Coon Huntin' Story" | |
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| "The Fish and the Edsel" | |
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| "Newgene and the Lion" | |
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| "Rat Killin'" | |
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| "Rats in the Corn Crib" | |
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| "Alligators" | |
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| "A Chicken Story" | |
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| "He Is My Horse" | |
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| "False Alarm" | |
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| Animal Deals | |
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| "Simon Slick's Mule" | |
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| "Brother Rabbit Conquers Brother Lion" | |
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| "'Heyo, House!'" | |
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| "Aunt Tempy's Story" | |
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| "Why the 'Possum's Tail Is Bony" | |
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| "Toot and Teat" | |
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| "Turkeys" | |
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| "The King of the Birds" | |
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| "Song to Oysters" | |
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| from Keeper of the Moon | |
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| "Parson John Bullen's Lizards" | |
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| "A Day with the Vet" | |
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| "Kudzu East and West and South" | |
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| "A Sensible Varmint" | |
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| "Georgia Theatrics" | |
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| Fort Worth Golf (from Dead Solid Perfect) | |
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| "Country Golf" | |
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| A Dickey Story | |
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| "The Ordeal of Lonnie Register" | |
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| "Coley Moke" | |
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| from Mules and Men | |
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| from Shuckin' and Jivin' | |
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| Dozens | |
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| "New Dirty Dozen" | |
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| "A Night at the Ugly Man's" | |
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| from You All Spoken Here | |
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| "Wrong Number" | |
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| "X-ing a Paragrab" | |
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| "The Ransom of Red Chief" | |
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| "Poetic Gems" | |
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| "In Memorial" | |
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| from Car | |
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| "Between the Lines" | |
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| "I Don't Eat Dirt Personally" | |
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| Gertrude | |
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| Head to Head with the Champ | |
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| Willie Didn't Want a Lot of Confusion Backstage | |
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| A Position on Whisky | |
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| Letters from Hollywood | |
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| "Petrified Man" | |
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| "Keela, the Outcast Indian Maiden" | |
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| "Nineteen Fifty-five" | |
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| "The King of Jazz" | |
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| A Jerry Lee Session | |
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| Womp Bomp a-Loo Momp | |
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| Alabama Dimensions | |
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| "Diddie Wa Diddie" | |
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| "Look at That Gal . . ." | |
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| Bookie Odds Favored the Union | |
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| Relating to Skillet and Fode | |
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| "Slim in Atlanta" | |
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| "Slim Hears 'The Call'" | |
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| "Sporting Beasley" | |
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| "The Vertical Negro Plan" | |
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| The Rise of Lester Maddox | |
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| "Mrs. James" | |
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| "The Pocketbook Game" | |
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| "Tuskegee Airfield" | |
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| "Women's Locker Room" | |
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| "Dave's Neckliss" | |
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| "Bill Arp Addresses Artemus Ward" | |
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| "Earl Long's Finest Moment" | |
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| Rogue Truth | |
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| "Johnson" | |
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| "Tough as Bob War and Other Stuff" | |
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| "Hair Dupe" | |
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| "Cracker-Barrel Reveries on the Tune 'Pax Americana'" | |
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| "Uncle Iv Surveys His Domain from His Rocker of a Sunday Afternoon as Aunt Dory Starts to Chop the Kindling" | |
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| "The Spoon Story" | |
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| "Chicken Every Sunday" | |
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| "The Rolls-Royce Story" | |
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| "Observations on American Indians" | |
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| "Georgia on a Fast Train" | |
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| On an Empty Stomach | |
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| from Norwood | |
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| "Uncle Willy" | |
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| "A Guest's Impression of New England" | |
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| "The Hoosier and the Salt Pile" | |
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| from Vibration Cooking | |
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| The Neshoba County Fair | |
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| from Eating in Two or Three Languages | |
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| Raftmen's Passage | |
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| "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed" | |
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| "Taming the Bicycle" | |
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| "If I Had a Boat" | |
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| "Confused Motorist" | |
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| "Sizing Him Up" | |
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| "Georgia Dust" | |
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| "Old Dry Frye" | |
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| "Lamar Fountain Is Free" | |
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| "One Last Cheer for Punk Kinkaid" | |
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| Hustling Here and There | |
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| Meeting Hemingway | |
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| "First Carolina Said-Song" | |
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| "Second Carolina Said-Song" | |
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| "Precious Memories" | |
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| "The Ballad of Charles Whitman" | |
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| "Knowing He Was Not My Kind yet I Followed" | |
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| "T for Texas (Blue Yodel No. 1)" | |
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| "Jackson" | |
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| "Empty Bed Blues" | |
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| "My Old Man and the Grass Widow" | |
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| "Dang Me" | |
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| "Saint Roxie" | |
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| "A Little Full" | |
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| "Grass Turned Out Green" | |
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| "Love" | |
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| "Jambalaya (on the Bayou)" | |
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| "Sister's Comin' Home/Down at the Corner Beer Joint" | |
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| from Hairdo | |
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| "The Hills of Zion" | |
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| "Last Laugh" | |
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| from Praying for Sheetrock | |
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| "Spanish Pipedream" | |
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| "Judgment in the Sky" | |
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| Copyright Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |