If you're gonna sing, sing 'em something they can understand.

I have been living in Montgomery so long that I call it home.

There ain't nobody I'd rather have alongside me in a fight than my mama with a broken bottle in her hand.

Folk songs express the dreams and prayers and hopes of the working people.

There ain't a man livin' who hasn't talked to his dog.

To sing like a hillbilly, you had to have lived like a hillbilly. You had to have smelt a lot of mule manure.