A hanging, though, was something different. I got to thinking. We hadn__ never been to nothing just to have a good time. A hanging was special and we was all getting to go.
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Eddie Whitlock
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Toward the end, a band that had a young fellow from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania__ remember on account of him saying it two or three times and laughing every time that he did__layed a song called 'All She Gets from the Iceman is Ice.' It made the grown folks, most of them anyway, howl laughing. I don__ think I ever seen Mama laugh so hard. When it was about over, the sheriff come up and made them stop playing it, but he was grinning, too, so I figured he was just making them stop as part of the show.
We ate our fill, but there was more left when we was done. 'It__l be in the icebox if y__ll want some more later on,' she told us. There weren__ no way I would have gone back and eat more. I knowed they was being extra nice to us right then, but if we didn__ act right, they would put us out. That__ how folks do.
There are two political truisms: Old people vote and Republicans eat their young.