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Sean of the South

Sweet Home Alabama | 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

🗓️ 14 July 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

A girl returns to the place of her beginning, after a lifetime living out West, she crosses the Alabama border and rediscovers what it means to be home. Old-time fiddle music by Tricia Spencer and Howard Rains.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, thanks for listening to Sean of the South Radio Show.

0:04.1

We're coming to you live.

0:05.1

Let me just get here behind right now.

0:06.3

It's Trisha Spencer and her husband, I've rangers.

0:19.2

Walk around my bedside, Lord, walk around my bedside Lord walk around Walk around my bedside Lord walk around Walk around Walk around my bedside Lord walk around Walk around my bed sick, Lord, walk around, when I'm sick, Lord, walk around. And it's when I'm sick, Lord, walk around. And it's when I'm sick, Lord, walk around and it's when I'm sick Lord walk around

1:12.6

walk around my bedside

1:15.6

Lord And it's when I'm praying, Lord, walk around.

1:41.3

When I'm praying, Lord, walk around. And it's when I am praying, Lord, walk around.

1:46.0

And it's when I'm praying, Lord, walk around.

1:50.0

Walk around my bed dying, Lord, walk around, when I'm dying, Lord, walk around, when I am dying, Lord, walk around.

2:19.1

When I am dying, Lord, walk around.

2:23.5

And it's when I am dying, Lord, walk around.

2:27.3

Walk around my bedside Lord Walk around my bedside, Lord, walk around my bedside, Lord, walk around, walk around my bedside, Lord, walk around, walk around my bedside, please walk around, walk around my bedside, Lord. Thank you. Thank you. I'm going to read you a little bit of our math today, a little bit of our mail,

3:49.1

a little bit of our men as soon, from readers through a whole lot like you only,

3:53.3

only maybe a little more bored than you are tonight.

3:57.8

Will Shirt, C Cookville, Tennessee.

4:00.3

My granddaddy Red would have been 106 on July 21st.

4:05.4

He died in 1980 a few months before I was born.

4:08.5

But here's a story I thought you'd like.

4:11.4

In the 1970s phone numbers were still only four digits long, and at that time,

4:15.5

we had no need for air codes, prefixes, especially not Alabama. His number was 4-4-1-2. And during that time,

4:25.4

since it was only four digits, the Druid City Hospital was 4-4-2-1, which resulted in an inordinate amount of misdiles

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