Continued
“There is a body on
the cross in my church.”
— Mary Karr, quoted
here on July 10, 2007
From Jan. 20, 2004,
opening day of the first
Tennessee lottery–
Song of the Father
“Gonna buy me a shotgun,
long as I am tall,
Buy me a shotgun,
long as I am tall,
Gonna shoot po’ Thelma,
just to see her jump and fall.”
— Jimmie Rodgers, known as
“the father of country music.”