Our Singing Country

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	Our Singing Country
	DEVILISH MARY e. No. 18. Jesse Stafford, Crowley, La., 1934- Other stanzas from Mrs. S. P. Griffin, Newberry, Fla. See Sh, 2:200. "There was a woman that we called her 'Puss Erving', had a son named Dock, and we called him 'Puss's Dock.' He and his wife lived in adjomin* rooms with me. These mining shacks were built with jour rooms on Four Mile Creek, and two families lived in these houses with a bedroom and kitchen for each family. "He got to singiny against her one morning and he had the blues because he was forty-one dollars in debt, and he was a-making his song. He was set-tin* with the baby—they just had one child; they was young^ people—he was a-settiny by the stove and a-nussiny the baby and he was a-singiny: " (Oh, Pm forty-one dollars in debt To the old Durell Coal Comfany; Pm going back to Rock Holt And leave old Nettie standin3 in the mud uf to her knees3 That was his wife. She started to sing back at him, " cOh, yes, Pm going back to Rock Holt, Kentucky, And Pll swing those petty boys around and around3 He throwed the baby down on the bed and smacked her plumb across the house, and they got into a fight over that; and me and Jim Stewart we run in, and I pulled him one way and he pulled her another, and we stopped the fight. But when we run in he had her right by the hair pullin* her right down. Theyyd very often get to singin* against each other and get mad and get into a fight that way"                                —Aunt Molly Jackson.