I wonder if your great uncle knew my grandaddy. We lived closer
to Knoxville than Chattanooga, but Steve Earle's "Copperhead Road"
could've been written about him. He's been dead since 1964, and I
still miss him. He taught me to shoot and to cuss. I still do
both quite well. And I can make my own whiskey if I take a notion.
Walt
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---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 12:08:21 -0700
>I didn't have any 'shine there. Only 'shine I've had was pretty
>terrible. One of my great uncles was a revenuer (rev'nooer?). He
>told the tale of an operation so sophisticated that they had to
>send samples of the questionable CC to their SF lab for testing
>to confirm which it was because much of the stuff in the retail
>channel in the South was also faked. He was quite a story teller,
>so this story may have been taller than I was at the time, but
>maybe not.
>
>Moose
>
>GeoW wrote:
>
>>Moose mentioned Chattanooga, TN
>>
>>-----snip
>> I don't think they grow corn in any quantity there either.
>>----snip
>>
>>Corn won't grow at all on Rocky Top;
>>Dirt's too rocky by far;
>>That's why all the folks on Rocky Top
>>get their corn from a jar;
>>
>
>
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