That's the way it goes in these here mountains. I'm glad I'm a mountaineer and not a hilbilly! 
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| Posted by: MacEoghainn 19-Mar-2005, 07:07 PM |
| Hillbilly Love Poem Suzie Anne done fell in love; She planned to marry Joe. She was so happy 'bout it all She told her Pappy so. Pappy told her, "Susie gal, You'll have to find another. I'd just as soon yur Ma don't know, But Joe is yur half brother" So Susie put aside her Joe And planned to marry Will. But after telling Pappy this, He said, "There's trouble still... You can't marry Will, my gal., And please don't tell yur Mother, But Will and Jo and several mo' I know is yur half brother" But Mama knew and said, "My child, Just do what makes u happy. Marry Will or marry Joe U ain't no kin to Pappy. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly. |
| Posted by: maggiemahone1 19-Mar-2005, 07:31 PM |
| That's the way it goes in these here mountains. I'm glad I'm a mountaineer and not a hilbilly! magiemahone1 |
| Posted by: maggiemahone1 19-Mar-2005, 07:34 PM |
| Holy Moley, I didn't even spell my name right. I got my education back behind the barn! maggiemahone1 |
| Posted by: CelticRose 20-Mar-2005, 12:41 AM |
Well I don't know if I should admit this one or not, but in my genealogy research, I came across a cousin who told me that she and her mother were also cousins.   |
| Posted by: Shadows 20-Mar-2005, 10:12 AM |
| If you go back far enough in the gene pool ( I still say we need more chlorine in that pool ) you will see we all have one common ancesteral mother! |
| Posted by: Fiddler 27-Mar-2005, 05:36 AM |
My father, Bill was from the flatlands of Illinois. Does that make him a flatbilly?  |
| Posted by: dundee 28-Mar-2005, 09:38 AM |
| seems to be a bit of a steal from buffy st marie ya think?  Johnny Be Fair (Buffy Ste. Marie) Well, Johnny be fair and Johnny be fine and wants me for to wed And I would marry Johnny, but my father up and said I'm sad to tell you daughter what your mother never knew But Johnny is a son of mine and so he's kin to you Well, Jimmy be fair and Jimmy be fine and wants me for to wed And I would marry Jimmy, but my father up and said I'm sad to tell you daughter what your mother never knew But Jimmy, too, is a son of mine and so he's kin to you Well, Billy be fair and Billy be fine and wants me for to wed And I would marry Billy, but my father up and said I'm sad to tell you daughter what your mother never knew But Billy, too, is a son of mine and so he's kin to you You never seen a girl so sad and sorry as I was The boys in town are all my kin and my father is the pa If this continue I shall die a single miss So I'll go to mother and complain to her of this Oh daughter, haven't I taught you to forgive and to forget Even if this all is true, still you needn't fret Your father may be father to all the boys in town, still He's not the one who sired you, so marry who you will |
| Posted by: Annabelle 28-Mar-2005, 09:45 AM |
| Me mom was a hillbilly from the woods outside of Memphis Tenn Me Dad was a Georgia cracker! Know what that makes me? A sandcrab from Florida Go figure |