Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stop at a roadside lunch stand. Roy (as the proprietor addressed him) gulped his coffee fast, wandered out and down the street. His driver, used to his habits, picked the governor up three blocks away; he was deep in conversation with two oldsters sitting in front of a hardware store. "I need the exercise," said Collins, "and it gives me a chance to talk to people...
...Company Store. Some of the young people memorize age-old, unwritten hymns and sing them of a Sunday in the Baptist Church, but most of them soon turn to "that jump-up" music. "I hear that hillbilly music," grumps one oldtimer, "but it don't do me pretty much good." Many of the youngsters leave the Kentucky coal-mining country altogether...
Saint Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go, I owe my soul to the company store...
...chorus is from a saying my Dad often used. He never saw real money. He was constantly in debt to the coal company. When shopping was needed, Dad would go to a window and draw little brass tokens against his account. They could only be spent at the company store. His humorous expression was, 'I can't afford...
...soul to the company store.' " Added a friend: maybe the song strikes home to Americans "because we all live on credit and owe our souls to some sort of company store...