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Sean of the South

Sean Dietrich

Personal Journals, S-town, Music, Alabama, Garrison Keillor, Storytelling, Story, Garden And Gun, Southern Living, Serial, Southern Culture, S Town, Old Radio, Lake Wobegon, Stories, Prairie Home Companion, Arts, Society & Culture, Live From Here, Story Podcast

5.0 • 546 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Sean tells the story of an elderly woman who embodies the bygone era, and of the nostalgia surrounding that world. Music by Sean's friends, the Chatham Rabbits.

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0:00.0	This episode of Sean of the South is brought to you by Case Knives, a tradition of my family dating back to my granddaddy, the fisherman to woodcarver, and the Southern Baptist who always said the best cure for idle hands is to build something.
0:13.0	So keep your hands sharp with a case knife.
0:17.6	Hey, you are listening to Sean of the South, and I'm your host tonight, Sean Dietrich, and man.
0:22.3	We've got a great show lined up here for you tonight.
0:24.3	A great show coming to you live through the podcast airwaves and the radio waves all over this fine nation.
0:30.3	This group of folks you see behind me here, behind me here on the stage, this lovely young woman and man are going to play something for you here.
0:36.4	This is the Chatham Rabbits, everybody, the Chatham Rabbits. Well, I moved to chat and knew that because I thought I could hide.
1:08.0	Then you chased me down the highway and I drove for my life, Lord, I drove for my life, Lord, I drove for my life, Lord, I drove for my life.
1:17.6	Well, I know my daddy lives there, but it's been a while since I've seen his face about that crooked smile.
1:33.3	Crooked smile, that crooked smile. So I move to sticks over in a little to ride.
1:59.0	To a city that don't sleep sleep so I could stay up all night
2:05.6	I can stay up all night I can stay up all night
2:10.6	When I think of all the places in the boys with you I've been
2:20.3	It's no wonder that I'm wearing a little sand door
2:25.3	Little sand door a little sand door a little man And as much as I like you and as hard as I try
2:51.6	The grass is always greener on the other side
2:56.6	Or other side or the other side
3:01.6	So I moved to Surrey County because I thought I could hide from the ones that I did wrong
3:15.3	and the one that took his life one that took his life on the one that took his life on the one that took his life so I But I walked up to keep mine.
3:33.0	So I moved to Chattanooga because I thought I could hide. Then you chased me down the highway and I drove for my life,
3:38.0	Oh, drove for my life, Lord, I drove for my life.
3:43.6	This portion of our program is brought to you by Visit North Alabama, the Mountain Lakes
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