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the the way they pronounce their words and things a good remember k l like Hillbillies up here neighb sitting around talking it's just and uh way our AC is I guess it was just so nice [Music] [Music] [Music] well I'm located uh about 100 miles west of iev and about a 100 miles south of Knoxville Tennessee right here in the corner of North Carolina joining Tennessee and [Music] Georgia and the name is Jim Juliet India Mike and I'm located in Robinsville North Carolina Roger Jim up in Robinsville North Carolina yeah it very nice to meet you today Jim nice s down here to Outsiders the accents and pronunciations in Mountain speech may sound quaint uneducated or worse but they often resemble the English dialect spoken in Scotland and Ireland I've heard a lot of older women instead of say wrap something up they say R it up yeah and uh stead as uh like St as your ear it's yeah you lag instead of calling a tire on a car a tire you call it a tar you call tars I'll call them tars and they used to call them casin years ago you ever anybody said hook them casin on that vehicle that's what they call them before World War II yeah cas then I call them tars you know how what you want them tars look at them tars and they call them tires talking about like that like if you had some wood out in the yard instead of saying carry it in the house you'd say tote it in the house and like if you had something that you wanted to uh put in a paper bag you put in a paper poke you know instead of a paper bag well the way people talks around here I guess it' be what more like you call hillbilly style or something I guess I don't know just Mountain talk most your local people have your mountain top that's the way you can tell the mountain people from your Outsiders by their language they use uh say I'll see you over Yonder that means I'll see like in winville it's a mountain top coming never Nothing Stops it's like a singing you know we're kind of like we're singing Lita said we're singing not talking you know yeah I like my [Music] mopeds everybody hears about greaham County don't they how good the people is how they'll help you I run into people I don't know never seen them in my life and uh I help any way I can somebody said one day said you get knocked in the head I said well I do I'm just knocked they're just good-hearted everybody you meet just 99% of them if I didn't live here move wouldn't you where you want to go on vacation if I was going to go on the vacation I just stay right on you oh yeah one mind days all the time any here we are 20 years behind the whole country but I wouldn't swap places with nobody I feel much more comfortable here being 20 years behind everybody than I would be setting in a lot of places and being so UNC miserable you don't like your neighbor you don't speak to your neighbor you're you're bitter with the world Atlanta's a good example or Raleigh you drive down the street and everybody's WI don't blowing their horns and don't know nobody and don't want to know nobody and don't care about nobody it's quite a bit different up here well I lived in Washington DC about four and a half years and I just seem being hell with my back broke his live right people are so good to each other here many of the words and expressions in Mountain speech are unfamiliar to Outsiders Scott Irish settlers brought much of the vocabulary from Europe but many new words and expressions were invented here by their descendants is just somebody coming up with a strange word is what it means I mean let's say you're trying to get something done you're building something and you take a look at it like the word s Googling uh uh you're looking at and it's all out of line and you just might come up with the word sa goling uh I do that myself uh can't think of anything right off but uh I I I come up with a lot of new words myself and so you get somebody standing around they hear that okay it's sa Googling say a carpenter has done a real poor job and then you say that's all sa Googling you know he didn't have his wall straight or they stand back and look if something a they say I think s goggling mhm they say I want you to look and say what is it if you're building some kind of said that's s Googling right under and said that old road going up there said that thing s goling my grandmother she's always talking about people being Stout uh or gain um she used words like Peckerwood if it's somebody she didn't like she'd call him a peckerwood if there somebody she didn't uh she didn't know um but he's probably all right she didn't have many animosity for him she'd say he is a Jasper um there's this Jasper come by here this morning I knocked on the door you know but if it's was a Salesman there's just pecker wood out there on the porch it's like people used to you know like you go to the store say put it in the bag old people says you put it in the Poke that's a bag I used to go to the store walk two miles the store and when I was a kid didn't carry a 25 lb poka flour on that's flour by the way not flour and me and my two and one brother we'd be waiting on them at the house to get our candy saw that the older man I was talking about had a little poke of candy he said well I I forgot to get anything boy we scream oh here it is plum was a common word when I was going uh Plum this and Plum that uh you Plum over there uh well he was just PL more out that copper mine that VIN they tunnel under the ground Plum out through here to Snowbird like the wind was blowing you know a lot of a they would say it's very Irish outside Irish it means it's a little bit chilly outside really means it's Irish that means it's chilly today it's Irish today right now as we speak the a is blowing and Breezy they go you know go know store and buy a Coke they call them dopes back in I don't know if you ever hear anybody say that or not that's what we drank when I was a kid and it was called they had knee high they had pepsicola Royal Crown Cola a lot of them that was dope oh a dope you're talking about like a sod pop sod water yeah yeah sod water yeah dope that's all they ever call them around here as a kid I mean that's now if you go up toward ear place up there stop along there about where you turn up the Tony are and then Pine Pat right along with that log house you probably see a boomer right there a lady come through she said oh I said that's a pretty Boomer she said a boomer what's a boomer you know what a boomer is don't you you ever see one what a boomer uh they make a lot of chatting noes they're about the size of a war frat a war frat yeah a war frat big old r a boomer is like a little squirrel it's not a squirrel it's it's a mix between a gray squirrel and a chipm except it's red can you eat them yeah she said that's a red squirrel I said well to me it's a Boer we always call it Boomers say it's an old skull I mean that's old dad land won't grow nothing you know call it skull I don't know if you you have he that I know you have call it as skull poor land that's like a carburetor in my van all GED up with all that old dirty stuff gum mean like all cluttered up GED up yeah that mean it's in a mess that's what that's what I would they didn't know they talking such educated folks did they [Music] no instead of saying Yonder you know o Yonder it's O yander did you ever hear that word o yander yeah I say well rander yeah their mama used to come up to us and we little and she say Goose or Gander she pull it you you say Goose she say pull it you loose you say Gander she say pull it whe little billions they all know me they say y comes himmer riding his Harley Davis they think it's a [Music] Harley every region of Appalachia there's usually if you come there even from another County you don't have to come there from another state you can just move from adjoining County people use Expressions you don't understand uh it's something that means something only to them and that's one of the Delights of mountain [Music] culture it may change from one Community to the next you'll have different idiomatic expressions and different combinations of terms and inflections that will change just literally from one Cove to the next um as you move up through the mountains here you know from Graham County up into Madison County then on up into waga and Boon if you were to speak with native speakers you you would see how the the idioms would change and and how the inflections and and things would would shift like down on yellow treek it was so strange because the people on the lower end of the creek which is the whole Creek if you went from one end to the other ain't two miles I mean it's not two miles it's not a long distance but the people on the lower end of the creek they talked twice or three times as fast as the people on the other Creek the people on the other Creek if they told you a story you was so bored and tired and wore out but time they ever got through telling you you forgot what they telling you anyway I guess it' been a year since he' named it but anyway named it again he is going to get me a little red wagon and uh one day he went to the store and he come back and and I seen him coming with that red waging on the shoulder POS was carrying it and I run out there run to meet him I just I thought it was mine and my daddy said honey that belongs to PO says he got that that for his little girl boy I just felt like I was going to die and I started to go back to the house and he said no honey it's yours come back and get I was pleased in one manner to death they had this wonderful expression they Lord which uh I guess it's kind of like thou but they Lord Jonathan I'm just about tickled to death and uh you remember things that are said that well did me and l i they Lord have mercy if you have talked to one of uh one of your neighbors on your front porch and um he's about to leave and go back to his house he may say something like uh Yin come go with us um which has always struck me as strange but seems rather gential thing to say uh uh and it also displays that other wonderful token of of uh Western Carolina speech or Appalachian speech the yuns my dad gets it at the farmers market nice where yens was at yet yeah yens might have even seen him yesterday and didn't even he well when I was a kid growing up in Mississippi you all was frowned upon too the teachers told us try to avoid it but it didn't work any more than uh um telling people not to say yun's here uh really really carries much weight U I think there are quite a few that are very proud to to cling to to those signs of of earlier times here's on thean it's easy picked I'll picking another cribble crate that's one of the old and here Roy Clark picking h i kind of slow down I was picking too fast [Music] there I know English pretty good that's about it well I I know some part of it's real old English yeah part of that I do too is Old [Music] English C we moved to Maggie Valley lived up here on Campbell Creek uh I carried my lunch to school in a poke and they laughed at me but a poke was proper in England 100 years before and uh it was it was uh John Paris has written a number of books and he said uh brother if you don't believe that's correct you look up chower and uh Shakespeare and some of the things uh that was proper in those days Appalachia traces much of its ancestry to Scotland and Ireland although many cultures contributed to Mountain culture and Mountain talk the Scots Irish brought an early form of English and many older words and expressions remained in Mountain speech long after they dropped out of mainstream English most of the things that choser used we still use it's just those little fossils that that dropped out between Cher's time and ours that still remain here well those are the ones that that that people are drawn to that's the easiest place to go to I mean but choser cheran English Old English there's a lot of that a lot of the uh the the phrasing and the framework of of of speech patterns Mountain speech patterns uh but then like I said it's a very it's a very complex language really it comes from many different places and it's very um spontaneous and quirky and um so it's not a simple language it's not look on the hill the SC they coming yes my my swe running love her my S good love love sweet s good my ancestor came from 13 Mile Creek Ireland and no they didn't come over on the Mayflower they come over on the cattle Boo in the second half of the 1700s large numbers of Scots migrated first to Ireland then to North America most came into Philadelphia and moved Inland traveling south along the shondor valley into Southern Appalachia settlers from England Germany and elsewhere followed the same trails to find a remote piece of land they could call their own where you are from determines who you are and the Cornerstone of the Foundation of that is really all tied up in language I think that's really [Music] it Okie do okay if you can copy I live in the western part of North Carolina a little place uh called Robinsville NC and I'm not far from the Cherokee engine reservation you might know where that's at and the next little town close to me is merphy and Bryson City and Andrews North Carolina Roger well I think we talk a lot like uh the people that came over from England and Scotland and and Ireland and we were so isolated for so many years that's how we kept it I think cuz you can imagine how isolated it was in these Mountain Mountain before well you know in the last century the last couple of centuries well the dialect that I'm familiar with uh is due to isolation that's it we've been isolated in this region for so long older forms of English form the basis for Mountain talk but languages Contin Contin to develop even in isolation the seclusion of mountain life nourished the Scott Irish talent for improvisation every Community quickly developed distinctive dialect features and new words and expression while walking on a Satur night walked into that Wild Bill Jones walking in talking by the true love waiting for to leave her alone he says my age is a past 21 too old for you to control When You Reach and pulled out my gun destroyed that boy staggered and he stumbled and he fell to the ground gave one my arm around through neck saying darling it's time we be riding [Music] people back then done most of the court and walking they r a horse one and and about all the was we never went nowhere hardly and we basically growed up in the holler there all of us kids did and mama she done all the you know canning work we never did go to store for nothing because she'd can all summer long and have the seller her full of food and we basically just growed up there and lived there the biggest part of her life me and ver we we about inside of each other's home here we've known each other all our lives when we got married my mother seen the first car come down Savannah here first never did come down it been a lot change just made sense that we live down on the mountain maybe a mile from that road and I could look up there just a little boy and see those cars just the top of them go through up I had a place I could see him you know and so when Dad come in from work I'd get beg him you know I say now look getting next about close to Christmas time go up there and catch me in one of them little things in little cars going I tried to get him go catch me one of them I said you dadd well I grown before I was ever in Robinsville people had no cars in here back then I remember the first car I ever rode in as for that was just like a foreign country chattanoog Atlanta you didn't go that far yeah I'm pretty far from the stone Cor [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] I lived hard people did back years ago real hard I know when I growed up when I growed up we we growed up hard I mean we didn't we I mean they wasn't it wasn't nobody wanted to come back in these mountains and stay or nothing cuz you know you couldn't live [Music] I how far back does your family go in this area long time lasted I guess what was it like growing up around here it was it was hell it was rough sure went through some rough time we worked like new bedtime we went the bed up day lot eating breakfast and gone didn't have time to say nothing to much no one one that I knew around where I lived was uh was well off we all worked and grew our own food and uh raised a little tobacco and uh some of us even made a little moonshine to get B and uh we didn't know we was poor until the government come along and told us we were well I didn't know it was hard because everybody we had about the same as everybody else you know we didn't know we lived in poverty until we got grown and and Sergeant sh a came in here with Billy Graham and said we were all poverty strick I've uh been asked if when I grew up or when my family grew up if uh uh we you know we didn't have nothing to do oh I said you're very badly mistaken I said there was plenty to do we live good but you had to work at it was a it was a good life I'd like to live that again best life we ever lived you want some coffee Hest yeah pull me a cup get you pour down James cie yeah back a long time ago uh such as my granddaddy or there was this old man named Manson Owens he had a house full little Youngs and the only way he could feed him he couldn't get no job he had to get out here and take what corn he raised and and turned it into a jar of liquor you can sell a jar of liquor when you can't sell the bush of the ters and that's the way that folks put bread on their table for their kids e put clothes on them said Jim Tom Hedrick master of a nent craft with roots going back to the back to the Peete bogs of Ireland is currently a turning out corn whiskey without fear of hindrance of the law with temporary dispension dispensations the 44 year old native of the snowbird mountains set up a copper moonshine steel here a Saturday are on the grounds where the second annual Great Smoky Mountain herdes Festival opened a 5-day run you go over in Georgia go to tus quid you didn't see who who got whiskey for sale you see who's got the best cuz they all bootle then every one of them boot laid now we had a lot of lot of fun with all that stuff but now you've got everything if you don't like what you got you can go to Hardy or McDonald's and get you a chicken you know we had to shoot ours with a rifle out there in the yard and picky and we eat everything on the pig except it squeal everything and the we don't eat chitlins no no we don't know eat but we eat ears and yeah you like ears you ears I 15 year old I killed that uh first deer with a salt off 22 p uh rifle no SES on it 15 year old played hookie from scool Bo going around around and me trying to it wasn't that I got it I finally got it by the leg and I was trying to get a shell in my gun it taking me everywhere and I finally got one in there and pulled out back and finally got it down it year spat I got it you never had a squirrel you ain't never eat how on the hog son unless you do that well I'd like to try one okay what about turtles have you eat Turtle I heard turtle is good but I never had one oh I love squirrel better Turtle but I like turtle but I like squirrel better what about pumpkin blooms pumpkin Bloom you ever read any pumpkin Bloom that's what you call Branch lettuce that's good stuff you can take and cut it up and put onions in pour hot grease on it that's some fine eating with cornbread I'll set that back out I don't believe in wasting nothing most time you didn't see nobody for a week or two at a time they tickle to see somebody com and then that's why the storytelling got you know they tell them Tales maybe h stick around a little longer you could meet somebody on the road and they just start hunting them a rock to sat down on to talk to people had time for each other they had if they meet up with somebody they talk to them maybe 30 minutes or longer now they ain't got time to talk to you they neighbors were neighbors back then I where I put it you go over Fontana and catch one of them little brims about that long and you think you've got a whole on the end of your line but you just cut your little v- notch in it and wrap your line around during time in about two or three knots mhm and you don't even have to have a sinker most of them little holes is not not that deep and the worm will the worm will pull a hook down and you you can catch your limit [Music] the isolation of mountain communities set the stage for Innovations and speech and other expressions of culture such as music dance and storytelling mountain people worked hard and liveed far apart when they had a chance to get together it was a social [Music] event this gener come [Music] that is Mother we was going to sing a song wasn't well that's what I thought my giar you would please and see can strum I'll try to hit it and knock it [Music] out gold she willry me oh you need not buy the dress of bread skipped all over with a golden thread for I won't marry you you you I won you the outside world knew little or nothing of the mountain people and judged them to be without culture the negative stereotypes have become well known and widespread to speakers of mainstream English the strange sounding Mountain talk confirms these misconceptions yeah when I went off to work okay and and I was out here in these other people places they was all the time making fun of the way I talked so I you know of course I tried to you know to to change my talk and and you know but that that never did work these other young people would come back and they'd try to talk like Yankees and we'd all make fun of them so they had the bro you know that's like trying to be somebody you're not getting above your as by my love paper and pens that's the way that love begins if she will mar mar she will marry oh you need not buy the paper and pin if that's the way our love Begins for I won't marry you you I won't marry you my grandparents were Scott Irish I was raised by them here and as a consequence of that I talked the way they did but when I first went to school the teachers uh had trouble talking to me I had trouble communicating with they told me quite frankly that the way I talked was associated with ignorance and backwardness and uh this college professor I think he's from up North I with ASU he got up and introduced me and he said now I'm going to tell you some AR's words you may not understand you know he kept on with talking suggested LIF him careful we got done telling this man his wife W up to me and he said I understood you a lot better than I did at college professor I got tick well I'll give my love a dress off we may live never fight she she oh you need not give me a dress of the may live and never fight for I won't marry you you you I won't marry you I always know that know that language till I went in brains you know then I had to change my way of talking and stuff where they can understand me too I can say one word old people they know what I was talking about now you getting out you know around the world now you got to make a whole complete sentence what you're talking about but everywhere I went everybody know me there comes old country boy they asked me said now you're from the mountains now is your one your leg shorter than other I say well hell no it ain't shorter than other you because you think you're standing on the hill all the time one leg grow further another you know I never did you know I said well know my leg just as good as yours are out run you today didn't I'll give my love the key to my dad she can have money at her request if she will marry marry she will marry me oh if you give me the KE your D that I can have money at my request then I will marry you you you I will marry you like I'm talking this plain old talk I'll say go in there and get me a pck of them ters out of the basements and they'll say potatoes potatoes and then then the way the rhythm of it is there's a bunch of us time operators on talking to the northern people in Pennsylvania and they said we have tried and tried we can't get the swing of it without Southern talk we can't do it to save our life and we told him we couldn't get that Northern talk New Jersey they've got their own way talking saying things like we say a b and they call a stalking hat cap you know or a you know say a sodie or a dope or a drink or Coke they call it a pop say you want a pop I said no I don't think I need no pot you know you get in a bar where they at you know me you think they all going into a fight they just like to raise voice and run their mouth party people party people do I can't understand he what to say yeah they make fun of the way we talk but the way they talk there a whole lot different so understanding them to us is like or to me it's like another language it's like they're speaking foreign or something you know when up here you know said we you know somebody talking real funny with a fine little voice said you ain't from around here are you we you know I st I I said you from there in Florida ain't you can tell a vast big difference in people up north I I love to just sit and listen to them talk and I they're the same way by me oh Lord yeah they think you something else now they don't know what to think of you they don't they don't know whether to kiss you high up well I give you you can have money at your request I can't marry you I can't marry you well that's [Laughter] [Music] okay the the whole stereotype of the hillbilly and all those kind of things is is poisoned the the outside world giving it a wrong impression of mountain culture and Mountain speech but it's also affected people inside the culture you know it's we've become very sensitive to all that how we're perceived from the outside and so the the language starts changing sort of from within mountain people are e either depicted as imbred and stupid uh variations of the guys in Deliverance or there's the other extreme where they're in impossibly Noble and remarkable and intelligent and I can't stand either one Jim Wayne Miller told me once he said Gary I lived in St Petersburg Florida and the only thing I know about the mountains is what I read in Foxfire I'd think we is all jelly making duler Pluckers up here I think it was 19 64 I was 14 years old before we got electricity in the house I remember I was 14 before we got it and I remember the first light bill we got was $3 and daddy didn't know how he's going to pay the light bill he was going to call and tell him to take the Elric back out of the house but us young as g d stuff PID the light bill so he wasn't Tak him back in as been sitting by the oil lamp trying to read a book or do your homework my brother said said when he was growing up that if anybody had told him that uh they sometime have been a a box that would have you could turned on and it would have talked through that the TV he said he had told him they was Liars electricity telephones and television have a tremendous impact on the culture of any Community they were late to arrive in Appalachia but when they did they quickly eroded the isolation in which mountain culture was born and our first television little round screen boy I'd lay back and watch that Amos 90 I'd stay on I'd sat there at one off and I was up at daylight when it come on the TV was on all the time it was a diversion it was a distraction and I think it had a tremendous impact on mountain culture and uh I think it affected the language and it probably affected a lot of other things I knew that we were in trouble when I met a mountain girl uh down in North Georgia who lived up in D I think it was you couldn't get any more uh godforsaken than up in dial and Cherry log where the roads run out and she had a baby and uh I quired about the baby's name and she told me it was [Laughter] Beretta TV has helped a lot on people to getting together because like you said used to your voice either brought you in or turned you off Y and now seems like they watch the much TV lot of it from the north that you don't pay as much attention as you used to the coming of television and radio certainly had some effect but uh probably not nearly so much as the coming of improved roads you don't interact with the radio or the television set you don't often talk back to it uh but if you can move out of the place where you were isolated to places where people do speak differently those are the people that you have to interact with and those are the conversations that are ultimately going to alter your your speech patterns when I was Singo my was my crave now I am married and I'm troubled To My Grave Lord I wish I was a single girl again Lord I wish I was a single girl again when I was single I used to be afraid no one would ever with me in my dier made Lord I wish I was a single girl again Lord I wish I was a single girl again [Music] we have probably 5 or 600,000 people that come through uh Western North Carolina each year and of course the economy is better as far as that goes but we' paid a price for it [Music] and now they've got ghost town and The Stomping Ground And Fire child and Carolina nights and the Thunder Ridge thing and several attractions now for people to come and see MH but I remember when they didn't have nothing first attraction in the valley I remember was Old Man Ted Sutton he'd get out there on a wooden box he made and pick an old Baner and sing and he one of the first tourist attractions there was around here Maggie Valley now is just about Miami I mean there a few people here that's been here all their life but people from Florida and places like that just about B this country out when people like that moves into an area it makes it entirely different mhm because they think that it should go the way they say that it is maybe the people that they're living around says no that's not how it's supposed to be well that's uh the mountain Customs are are definitely a thing of thing that is being lost and and it's a tragedy as far as the as the people that of that was born raised in the mountains like myself and and I I think it's really important to keep alive when I was single used to come to court he always brought me candy and I thought he was a sport Lord I wish I was a single girl again Lord I wish I was a single girl again no we have a lot of influx people that come here to get away from wherever they was and uh they they change it too they change it a little bit and sometimes it's for the better and sometimes it's not they come here because it's perfect and some of them try to change it as soon as they get here you know what I mean so I like it when I mean we got some real true friends that just love it here and are dedicated to the community when people come uh maybe from up North they go to Florida and they come back we call them hi highbacks and they go They're attitudes are different their personality is different and their raisin different than ours they're different than we are and it takes them a while to get used to us or leave cuz we don't change a [Music] lot to milk and the spring to go to a whole crowd of children a crying after you Lord I wish I was a single girl again Lord I wish I was a single girl again wash your feet and hurry off to bed your daddy's coming drunk and he'll knock you in the head Lord I wish I was a single girl [Music] again Lord I wish I was a single girl again that picture I was four when I was made you look just like Cindy H Cindy looks just like you well she she's good look yeah and we will well on point it and the picture man to call him had always come to us and spend the night and then he take up them branches and make pictures all up all up them BR branches didn't call them my reckon there nobody living that was a living when I was young much they old Dead with with the older Generation The Generation once removed from my generation um the dialect and the language will in terms of it being used and spoken on a daily functional basis will be gone but you know like today you know everybody's got television and stuff and everybody knows what's going on anymore and a lot of us we're losing our hertage you know my son he don't talk like me is the old time religion is the old time religion is the old whole time and it's good enough for me right over and over makes me love everybody makes me love everybody makes me love everybody and it's good enough for me is the old time relig is the old time religion to the old time religion now and it's good enough for me goes right on it was good for our fathers it was good for our fathers it was good for our fathers and it's good enough for me but that's about all I live in now is memories CA seems like life sort of slowed down for me as you go on through life something will stop you here and you'll turn to something else but after a while it just it just quits mhm yeah I got a couple of sons real smart computers I don't know how to turn one on but they're growing up you know different and we grow up no television no electricity now I'm growing up and got couple television in the house and it just kind of change a little bit with life as you go you got to you got to change a little with the timeing this mountain culture is not passing it's in transition it is becoming something else but it so much of it is still intact it's almost like it went underground and it it shifted and changed in order to survive I think in recent years they people have come to realize how important their Heritage is and they know if it's last it's last forever you know if we lose it how do we know how do we know who we are I think it's really important to know who you are and and where you came from you know then you take the 10 M BAND here and the 2 meter band and bounce your voice off of the moon hit hit the moon and bounce and come back over 10 met on the uh on the HF they call out a down link and uh then you got your CW you're I call it code continuous wave you know and that'll penetrate the Earth you can well they ain't no ending to that they just keep it going I was going out here this morning in that little old truck and I wasn't I wasn't watching what I was doing I come one her turning full flips right down on like the rest of the world appalaches adapting to the age of communication old ways are fading from use and new ways emerging Mountain talk is changing too just as all languages and dialects change over time but it is evolving not disappearing [Music] the greatest joys in life go have something to do with individuality and the uniqueness of people and spee is part of that and uh I have no desire to look like talk like uh some Norm that everybody finds acceptable I I see no advantage in everyone speaking the same [Music] way don't rainbow sign don't you see God gave no rainbow no next time [Music] we've uh let you uh know a little bit about her family but it's great I'll tell you one thing really to get to know us you'd have to know us a long long time ways back out in the Mountain Land in the town a c of weed a simple old mountain Shack out there where I like so to be Where the wild flowers grow with the blooming L trees yes in that old Tucka seure river flowing Wild and Free oh so wild and free no other place quite like there to me home sweet home in the Mountain Land of the town [Music] song birds sing sweetly from the tall of trees the air is fresh as the daysy waving in the summertime Breeze sometimes late at night out there when everything is still you can hear the wise out talking singing h on the hill no other place quite like there to me home sweet home in the Mountain Land of the town of Co well that ain't a drop in the bucket what I can tell you uh that ain't a drop in the bucket

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