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Sean of the South

Small-Town Folks | 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

🗓️ 13 January 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Sean delivers a story about an elderly couple and the things that hold them together. Music by Brad Edwardson, Aaron Firetag, and the Red Cedar Review.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We're listening to Sean and the South Live.

0:04.0

And that music you hear behind me all the fine boys in Charleston, South Carolina's own Red Cedar River.

0:09.0

I was in the joint in east of Troy, served a sentence in Dallas, Texas.

0:18.0

I got locked up all over trying to get to Oklahoma, and I ain't been back there since.

0:24.7

In the slammer in Alabama, and Montana, Savannah, and Atlanta, and Atlanta.

0:30.8

In the penitentiary down in Memphis, Tennessee, I got a tattoo says, high-heart mammal.

0:36.9

Incarcerated in every every state institutionalized along the way

0:42.2

did I happen to mention that my life of correction started back into juvenile detention

0:48.2

yeah my rap sheets are mile long but it's not why I sing my song.

0:55.0

No, I came here to say there's been a terrible mistake, because I ain't done nothing wrong.

1:06.4

I've been arrested for possession of just about everything.

1:09.7

From weapons to wild animals, I got bricking and entering.

1:13.0

Burglary, disorderly, battery, trespassing.

1:15.9

These are all just cases of mistaken identity.

1:18.4

Charges dropped in St. Louis, picked back up in Kansas City.

1:21.5

Paroleal in Alabama, probation in Mississippi.

1:24.1

I've been detained, retained, and contained in jail.

1:27.1

I never missed a court date. I

1:28.6

never skipped bail. I'm just a victim of the system, a victim of circumstance. They

1:32.9

bring me, set me up, they tampered with evidence. I ain't never done nothing wrong. I would swear

1:37.4

on my mother, except for maybe that one time and maybe a couple others. I was in the joint in East of Troy,

1:47.7

arrested down in Houston, Texas,

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