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Sean of the South

Family Reunion | Sean of the South

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

5.0546 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Sean delivers the story about a family reunion on the bay, and the downhome food that goes with it. Music by Simon Robinson.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Here at Sean of the South, we're keeping our hands sharp with the help of case knives,

0:04.3

the sponsor of this episode.

0:05.7

A tradition of my family for generations, my granddaddy used to say the best cure for idle hands was to build something.

0:11.0

But in today's day and age, everything's done with the click, a swipe, or a tap.

0:15.3

But how about we put away the screens and put your hands to work with a case knife?

0:20.9

Hey, you are listening to Sean of the South,

0:23.5

and I'm your host tonight, Sean Dietrich,

0:24.9

and man, we've got a great show lined up ahead of here,

0:26.9

a great show coming to live in the podcast,

0:29.0

airwaves and the radio waves all over this fine nation.

0:32.3

This man you see behind me here fixing to blow your mind

0:35.0

with his fiddle is Simon Robinson everybody Simon Robinson All alone, all alone, my friends alone my friends all I fled

1:15.6

My father he's a drunkard number that she's dead

1:20.6

I'm a poor little child and I wonder and leave

1:25.6

For the voice of my mother to sing me to sleep I'm alone all alone this cold world so wild

1:36.3

God look down and pity and drunk and slow child in pity look down and hasten to me

1:47.0

And take me to dwell with my mother and leave She sleeps on the hill in the bed of cold play.

2:18.3

How sad it did seem to lay mother away.

2:23.3

She's gone with the angels and on do I see.

2:28.3

So dear is the love of my mother to me.

2:33.3

I'm alone all alone in this cold world so wild

2:39.0

got to look down and pity and drunk a child being paid to look down and decent to me

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