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Robinson, Adgie Lee

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Collected by Mary Celestia Parler; Transcribed by Neil Byer Adgie Lee Robinson Newport, Ark. April 13, 1955 Reel 210, Item 6 I'm Going To Treat Everybody Just Tolerable Right Once there was a church. So the preacher, he got up and he prayed, and then he went to singing. And there was an old lady in church. So the preacher went to praying, "I'm going to treat everybody right, I'm going to treat everybody right." So this old lady was setting back there. She say, "I'm going to treat everybody just tolerable right, I'm going to treat everybody just tolerable right." And he say, "Sisters and brothers, we praying that we going to treat every­body right." She stood up, but she said, "Reverend, you just can't treat all these people right. No use to tell that lie at church." She say, "I'm going to treat everybody just tolerable right." Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation.
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Parler, Mary CelestiaByer, Neil
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1955 04 13
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Ozark Folksong Collection

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