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...like Make the World Go Away, he continued to refer to himself as the "Tennessee Plowboy," at one point even crediting his success to hard work on the farm. "That's why I wanted to play the guitar," he said in 1947. "So I wouldn't have to keep plowin' all my life...
...five-day-a-week transcription programs. In Manhattan a reporter asked him whether he really had been a plowboy. Said he: "Boy, I sure did plow. That's why I wanted to learn to play that guitar, so I wouldn't have to keep plowin' all my life...
...duds on the Ford and headed out for Californy. Reard there'd be work out there for us Picked oranges for a livin' 'n me a Harvard Man. Yep majored in Fine Arts, Bout a couple o' weeks ago. Government man came 'round, told us about rescedin' 'n contour plowin'. We, me 'n the missus, decided we might as well go on back to our own land, and try to make a go of it again Well, so long, mister sorry, didn't got the name? Well, so long, Mr. Steinbeck...
...brash, I'd like to tell Mr. Oven-dale that they ain't hardly none of us out here in the Bible Belt what goes to Kahlege, because we're so busy just a-scrapin' the cowdung off our heels an' plowin' the south forty an' one thing an' another that we just naturally don't have time. We don't hardly even have time to stretch our American brains, like he asked us to do. But we do know that the King of England shouldn't be talked...
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