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An introduction to DOG TALES. Following the PREFACE there are 57 more episodes. Each episode contains one tale. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-martin-ramsay5/message

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57. All in One Breath 1:37

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Notes: ALL IN ONE BREATH was collected from Bill Hartsock, a Berea College student who got it from his girlfriend’s grandmother, Margy Riddell of Flat Gap, Virginia in 1982. Mrs. Riddell, born Bolling, was about age ninety when this verbal test was presented to her granddaughter. THAT IS THE LAST TALE! You can listen to the tales told by the author…

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56. Tailipo 4:18

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Notes: TAILIPO was collected from my wife, Risse Faye Layne Ramsay who heard it from her mother, Rilda Chandler Layne. Rilda was raised in Broadhead, Kentucky back in the late 1930’s. The Chandlers had moved to Kentucky from Madison County, North Carolina. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-martin-ramsay5/mess…

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55. The Feuding Dogs 2:11

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Notes: THE FEUDING DOGS was collected from Kris Slank, a Berea College student who got the tale from his grandfather, K. G. McDaniel. The story has come down in the family. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-martin-ramsay5/message

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54. The Runaway Horses 2:23

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Notes: RUNAWAY HORSES was collected from A. D. Harrell of Tipton Hill, North Carolina. A. D. told me this tale in 1956 when I was spending an evening after testing his cows’ butterfat percentage. He corroborated the tale in August 1986 and identified Edward Whitson as the lad who tried to rein in the horses. --- Send in a voice message: https://pod…

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53. The Dead Dog 1:59

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Notes: THE DEAD DOG was collected from Joan Randall, a Berea College student who got the tale from Don Sauders of North Carolina who remembered it from about 1930. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-martin-ramsay5/message

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52. The Dog Tax 2:15

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Notes: THE DOG TAX —by permission. See Humor of a Country Lawyer, by Sam J. Erwin, Jr. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1983, p 132. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-martin-ramsay5/message

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51. The Dog License 1:18

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Notes: THE DOG LICENSE was collected from Loyal Jones of Berea College in 1982. The event took place in 1960 or 1961 and was by telephone. (see also RIFLE TOTING MONKEY and WALKING ON WATER) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-martin-ramsay5/message

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50. Banjo Dog 2:50

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Notes: BANJO DOG was collected from David Morris of West Virginia. David shared this tale during the “World’s Fair,” i.e. Expo-84 at the Stokely Van Camp Folklife Center in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1984 where he was performing during a week featuring Berea College’s interest in Appalachian folk arts. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.s…

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49. A British Train Ride 4:09

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Notes: A BRITISH TRAIN RIDE was collected from Henry Besuden, Vinewood Farm, Winchester, Kentucky in June 1975. March 2019, Alan Branson sent me this, “It was sent to me by my good friend, Don in Pompano Beach, Florida.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-martin-ramsay5/message…

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48. An Unwelcome Guest 2:36

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Notes: AN UNWELCOME GUEST was collected from Beatrice McLain at Berea College Christmas Country Dance School, 1979. Mrs. McLain claimed that Readers Digest picked up the story and published it but I have not been able to find it. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-martin-ramsay5/message…

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47. The Split Dog 2:47

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Notes: THE SPLIT DOG by permission from Richard Chase. See Chase, American Folk Tales and Songs, Signet Key, 1956, pp 97-98. Chase heard the tale somewhere in eastern Kentucky. It appeared in Fisher’s River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters , by “Skitt” published in New York, Harper & Brothers, 1859. See also Botkin, A Treasury og American Fol…

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46. Drummer Joins the Band 2:14

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Notes: DRUMMER JOINS THE BAND was collected from Linda Brewer of Jackson County, Kentucky in 1978 during a Berea College Extension Course in Folk Arts. See also Sourwood Tales by Billy C. Clark, Putnam, New York, 1968, pp 218-224. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-martin-ramsay5/message…

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45. Doggone Boots 0:57

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Notes: DOGGONE BOOTS was collected from Doc McConnel of Rogersville, Tennessee in 1984. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-martin-ramsay5/message

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44. Doghide Shoestrings 1:05

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Notes: DOGHIDE SHOESTRINGS was collected from Margorie Mallicoat of White Oak, Tennessee in 1979. Frank Profitt, North Carolina musician used to tell a tale about his uncle using the hide from his wife’s “bitchy” dog to cover his banjo. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-martin-ramsay5/message…

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43. Larapin Rarapin Skoonkin Huntin' 2:23

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Notes: LARIPIN, RARIPIN,SKOONKIN HUNTING was collected orally from a tenth grade student in my class in Micaville, North Carolina in 1956. Printed sources are: Roberts, South From Hell-fer-Sartin, tale number 78a; and Chase, Grandfather Tales, tale number 15, page 137. Roberts source was Charles Holcomb on Big Leatherwood who said he had heard this…

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42. Riddle 0:54

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Notes: RIDDLE was collected from Loyal Jones, a native of Clay County, North Carolina. He knew the riddle ‘all of his life.’ (see also WALKING ON WATER and RIFLE TOTING MONKEY) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-martin-ramsay5/message

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41. Mysterious Twins 2:00

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Notes: MYSTERIOUS TWINS was collected from Anna Hobbs, native of Madison County, Kentucky. Told by her grandmother, Maggie Odell of Possum Kingdom in the 1970’s. I checked the story out with Anna’s mother, Geneva Jennings. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-martin-ramsay5/message…

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40. Rifle Toting Monkey 2:13

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Notes: RIFLE TOTING MONKEY was collected from Loyal Jones and Michael Doane Moore in 1978. Jerry Clower’s humor and stories have had widespread audiences and much of his material, like this tale, has entered the folk process. Clower’s first recording, “Jerry Clower from Yazoo City, Mississippi Talkin,” a Decca recording, was number 11 on national c…

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39. Walking on Water 2:41

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Notes: WALKING ON WATER was collected from Loyal Jones, Director of Berea College Appalachian Center, 1975. This is one of the most widespread dog stories. (see also RIDDLE and RIFLE TOTING MONKEY) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-martin-ramsay5/message

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38. The Pickup Truck 2:45

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Notes: THE PICKUP TRUCK was composed by Ruby Altizer, a Berea College student in 1977. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-martin-ramsay5/message

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37. Useless's Old Dog 1:35

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Notes: USELESS’S OLD DOG was aired on Kentucky Educational Television in a program of a video tape interview with Ulysses (pronounced useless) Vanover of McCreary County, Kentucky and aired on January 5, 1977. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-martin-ramsay5/message…

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36. No Trespassing 1:54

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Notes: NO TRESPASSING was collected from Bert Killian, Murphy, North Carolina in 1969. (see also FASTEST DOG IN THE WORLD) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-martin-ramsay5/message

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35. Old Hound Dog 2:53

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Notes: OLD HOUND DOG was collected from Mona Coleman, a Berea College student in 1976. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-martin-ramsay5/message

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33. Flea Bit 2:40

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Notes: FLEA BIT was collected from Lewis Lamb of Paint Lick, Kentucky in 1980. I transcribed the tale from a recording of Lewis’s telling of a true story. (see also COUNTING DOG, RABIES SHOTS and SS-FF) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-martin-ramsay5/message

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34. Honest Sam 3:17

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Notes: HONEST SAM was told by Samuel Clemens in his autobiography. Twain concludes Chapter 30 with these words, “Now then, that is the tale. Some of it is true.” And I add: that is Sam’s tale, more-or-less. You can read the tale in his own words in The Autobiography of Mark Twain, edited by Charles Neider, Harper and Row, New York, 1959, pp 155-159…

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32. Sound Shooting Backfires 2:29

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Notes: SOUND SHOOTING BACKFIRES was collected from a Berea College student. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-martin-ramsay5/message

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31. Zig Zag Lips 2:14

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Notes: ZIG ZAG LIPS—see Johnson, F. Roy, How and Why, Johnson Publishing Company, Murfreesboro, North Carolina, 1971; source T. K. Warren of Hereford County, North Carolina in 1966. Used by permission of author. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-martin-ramsay5/message…

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30. The Ventriloquist 1:39

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Notes: THE VENTRILOQUIST I failed to note where I heard this tale but it is fairly well spread. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-martin-ramsay5/message

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29. Annie 2:43

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Notes: ANNIE was collected from Marshall Roberts, a Berea College student in 1981. He heard the story from Alan Tench of Banks County, Georgia who had it from his grandfather, Hamilton Tench. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-martin-ramsay5/message

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28. Quisling 2:41

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Notes: QUISLING was collected from Gwen McVicker in 1980 who has it from Andy McMahan of Louisville, Kentucky. David Macemon of Woodford County, Kentucky says he has heard a Science Fiction story about Thomas A. Edison inventing an intelligence test which he tries on a dog who scores “way off the top.” The dog then admits that he can talk and is ki…

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27. In the Lead by a Tail. 1:24

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Notes: IN THE LEAD BY A TAIL —see A Treasury of Southern Folklore, ed. by Botkin, New York, Crown Publishers, 1949, pp 128-129. Also in The Old Time Tennessee Orator by John Randall, pp 359-360. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-martin-ramsay5/message

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26. Hot Rod Hound 2:10

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Notes: HOT ROD HOUND was collected from SANDY COPLEN SMITH who got it from her roommate, Susan Adams who got it from her father in Coal City, West Virginia. I have heard the same tale several other times but the subject was a cat who was frozen in a refrigerator and revived with gasoline. This is a favorite of my grandson whose mother’s father, Red…

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25. SS-FF 3:52

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Notes: SS-FF was collected from Lewis Lamb of Paint Lick, Kentucky in 1975. Lewis learned this story from a co-worker on a construction project in Cincinnati, Ohio back in the 1940’s but, in retelling the tale he changed it from a horse to a dog. (see also COUNTING DOG, FLEA BIT, and RABIES SHOTS) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spo…

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24. Rabies Shots 3:24

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Notes: RABIES SHOTS was collected from Lewis Lamb of Paint Lick, Kentucky in 1980. I transcribed the tale from a recording of Lewis’s telling of a true story. (see also COUNTING DOG, FLEA BIT, and SS-FF) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-martin-ramsay5/message

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23. Training Young Fox Hounds 2:20

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Notes: TRAINING YOUNG FOX HOUNDS was collected from Mark Rector of Madison County, North Carolina in 1981. This is a true event according to Mark. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-martin-ramsay5/message

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22. The Billy Rough 4:10

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Notes: THE BILLY ROUGH was collected from Dear Rathbone, a Berea College student from Haywood County, North Carolina in 1980. Dean learned this from his uncle Miles Rathbone, also of Fines Creek. A subsequent letter from Dean says that this incident really happened in the Jerry rough. Dean has written many stories from his home on Fines Creek. (see…

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21. Counting Dog 3:06

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Notes: COUNTING DOG was collected from Lewis Lamb of Paint Lick, Kentucky in 1980. This tales is widely known and is one most likely to be told when one asks for a dog tale. Lewis’s setting in the mountains is unusual and is probably his own addition to the tale. He is a first rate yarn spinner as well as a champion fiddler. (see RABIES SHOTS andSS…

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20. Rabbit in the Well 1:43

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Notes: RABBIT IN THE WELL was collected from VELNA KEY, a Berea College student in 1980. Velna heard the story from the father, John Key in central North Carolina and he got it from June Peele. Velna says she “grew up hearing such tales.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-martin-ramsay5/message…

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19. Mail Dog 2:08

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Notes: MAIL DOG was collected from Coreen Brewer of Jackson County, Kentucky in 1979. Coreen learned this from her mother, Eulalia Foutch in about 1960 who learned it from her father, William Keith of Burning Springs, Clay County, Kentucky in about 1925. She said the dog’s name was Bounce. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com…

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18. The Fastest Dog in the World 2:27

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Notes: THE FASTEST DOG IN THE WORLD was collected from Bert Killian of Cherokee County, North Carolina in 1969. I swapped some dog stories with Bert while at a shape note singing at the home of Donald Ledford. Bert told this tale and NO TRESPASSING. I have not heard them from any other sources. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotif…

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17. The Deer Hound 2:55

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Notes: THE DEER HOUND was collected from Jimmy Elrod, Berea College student from Washington County, Virginia in 1969. Jimmy says of this tale, “I met such a diverse number of characters while I was growing up that I cannot pin this tale to one of them.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-martin-ramsay5/message…

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16. City Slicker and Bird Dog 4:00

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Notes: CITY SLICKER AND BIRD DOG was collected from Judy Hamilton in 1979. Judy, a student in my Folk Arts Class at Berea College, heard this tale from Willie Baxter of Casey County, Kentucky. I have heard the same tale from Anita Waldridge, a 1989 Folk Arts student who got it from Lisa Keoku about 1971. Both girls gave this ending, “I’m going to t…

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15. A Fresh Turned Trail 1:44

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Notes: A FRESH TURNED TRAIL see Botkin, Treasury of Western Folklore, p 512, rev.ed., New York, Crown Publishers, 1975, “The Smart Coon Dog,” ed. By B. A. From Idaho, A Guide in Word and Picture,WPA Federal Writers’ Project, 1937. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-martin-ramsay5/message…

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14. Ring and Pepper 1:26

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Notes: RING AND PEPPER was collected from Coreen Brewer of McKee, Kentucky in 1979. Coreen learned it from her husband, Eugene Green, also of Jackson County, Kentucky, somewhere about 1960. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-martin-ramsay5/message

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13. A Tale from Egon Mountain 2:31

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Notes: A TALE FROM EGON MOUNTAIN was collected from Etta (Bolton) Gulley of Clairfield, Tennessee in 1979. Etta heard this story from George Mallicot of Egon, Tennessee about 1960. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-martin-ramsay5/message

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12. Old Cold Nose 1:43

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Notes: OLD COLD NOSE was collected from Genevee Marlow of White Oak, Tennessee in 1979. Mrs. Marlow learned this from Lou Mallicoat of Duff, Tennessee in the 1970’s. The motif is widely known in differing variants (see Snake Bit) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-martin-ramsay5/message…

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