Re: Redneck by choice
lemme see, at my peak I had five defunct boats, and seven cars in various states of disrepair ...<br /><br />ive whittled that down to three boats and seven outboards - and a MerCruiser 215 - ummm, one van, two cars and now a pick up truck in red, <br /><br />I will eat virtually ANYTHING SOUTHERN ... jacklyn smith is from the south isnt she? if not, kim bassinger is, anyway, what was I talking about? oh yeah, like okra, in fact, eddy arnold sings a song about redneck cookin called hominy grits ...<br /><br />Hominy Grits <br /> <br />Oh give me some hominy grits <br />And some red sugar-cured ham <br />Give me a great big bowl of gravy <br />Id be such a happy man If I could see the magnolias and azaleas in bloom <br />Let me up to the table and give me lots of elbow room <br /> <br />Then pass me that mammy fried okie <br />And some good old black eyed peas <br />Give me a hay rack full of biscuits <br />Make my coffee black if you please <br />If you feed me out of Dixie in a style so grand <br />You'll have yourself a happy man <br />Sorghum molasses <br />You'll have yourself a happy man <br /> <br />Now give me some of the hominy grits boy <br />Or shut my mouth with a great big slab of that sugar-cured ham <br />And about a half a gallon of this old thickened gravy <br />And brother you're gonna have yourself a mighty happy man <br />Well it seems like when you eat stuff like that <br />You can see the magnolias on them honeysuckles <br />Well you knows that they're in bloom <br />Oh set me down to that table, boy, scoot over <br />And give me lots of elbow room <br /> <br />Then pass me that mammy-fried okie <br />And some good old black eyed peas <br />Give me a hayrack full of hot biscuits <br />And make my coffee black if you please <br />If you feed me out of Dixie in a style oh so grand <br />Youll have yourself a happy man <br />Sorghum molasses <br />Youll have yourself a happy man<br /><br />when I eat beans I fart, and I laugh about it<br /><br />ya eat beans and DONT fart, thats beggin fer trouble<br /><br />and my workshop has a better stereo than my bedroom<br /><br />what else, what else ... more knives than a chicago cutlery shop, collection of shotguns and rifles, a tool collection that requires a dozen toolboxes to attempt to contain<br /><br />my old workshop has a vise from 1907, must weigh a hunnerd pounds, bought it fer five bucks at a flea market, handle alone is over two feet long<br /><br />hunnerd years old, works like new, redneck as it gets ... <br /><br />god knows how much fishing tackle and fishing rods and reels dozens of each, tons of tackle, more fishing boxes than tool boxes, brand new fishfinder, still in the box, waitin on a boat <br /><br />catalogs in the bathroom, but this redneck vastly prefers Charmin<br /><br />and I AM gonna get me one of those big ol lawn tractors for cuttin this here half acre, big ol Chrome Stack on it<br /><br />and the missus has herself a big ol green water bait tank out back<br /><br />and given my druthers, I would rather be fishin than most anything<br /><br />and I know ive mentioned this before, but down in Villas, right near Cape May, is south of the Mason Dixon line, hence the truckin days handle Jersey Rebel, the family hard walled tent is down there, kindly called a shack<br /><br />yep, Im a redneck!<br /><br />
