What would you do?

I don't know from Mississippi. I was raised in New Jersey.
But I'd rather work than not work.

 

I really hope you have your sarcasm font on, here, Frank.

 

Mound Bayou is still one of the poorest counties in the nation.

 

Cultural wasteland?

Guess you weren't thinnking about the literary, architechtural, culinary or musical histories here, huh?

Sure, we ain't got Broadway, but we gave you the blues.

 

No, I was dead serious. What ya wanna do about it, Johnny Reb? Meet me at Gettysburg?

Of course I was kidding.

 

Nah, I'll meet you at Corinth. We fared a little better (but not much) there.

 

Well, at least you can joke about it. We were in Charleston -- lovely city -- at the aquarium, and I guess that's where you catch a boat or something to Fort Sumter. There's an information booth, too. I told my wife, who went to college in the South, that I was going to go over to that information booth and say, "So is this where you folks commited treason against the United States of America?" She said, "Don't you dare! They have no sense of humor about the War of Northern Aggression down here! They'll kill you!"

 

Yeah, some old coot volunteering at the booth would've went boots on you, had you done that.

 

I'm never inviting you to Keeneland. The best gift to people ever given.

Ahhhh, Keeneland.

 

In several years of visiting Lexington I somehow never made it to Keeneland. Drove past the entrance many times going to and from Blue Grass Airport - right across the street for those that don't know, but never went to the track/horse farm.

 

What would you do
If you were asked to give up your dreams for freedom
What would you do
If asked to make the ultimate sacrifice

Would you think about all them people
Who gave up everything they had.
Would you think about all them War Vets
And would you start to feel bad

Freedom isn't free
It costs folks like you and me
And if we don't all chip in
We'll never pay that bill
Freedom isn't free
No, there's a hefty fuckin' fee.
And if you don't throw in your buck 'o five
Who will?

What would you do
If someone told you to fight for freedom.
Would you answer the call
Or run away like a little pussy
'Cause the only reason that you're here.
Is 'cause folks died for you in the past
So maybe now it's your turn
To die kicking some ass

Freedom isn't free
It costs folks like you and me
And if we don't all chip in
We'll never pay that bill
Freedom isn't free
Now there's a have to hook'in fee
And if you don't throw in your buck 'o five
Who will?

You don't throw in your buck 'o five. Who will?
Oooh buck 'o five
Freedom costs a buck 'o five

 

It's okay. We know the rest of the nation is jealous that we can go barefoot (or wear Birkenstocks) most of the year.