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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 | |