Carolina Quotes
Nina, we'll get married if you want to, but,' I says, 'I'll tell you right now, I make whiskey, I play poker, an' I go to dances, I make music,' an' I says, 'I don't know whether I'll ever quit that. But,' I says 'if you think we can get along, now, we'll get married, an' if you don't think we can, right now's the time to say somethin
Tommy Jarrell Carolinian
Source
Recollections recorded by Ray Alden, notes to Tommy and Fred (County CD 2702); reprinted in Musical Traditions No. 11, 1993
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- interview
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- Recollections recorded by Ray Alden
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- 1993
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“Nina, we'll get married if you want to, but,' I says, 'I'll …” Tommy Jarrell. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-FAB189BD3A. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/fab189bd3a
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