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LIVING FOLKLORE
Herman Partnow
ALL PUFFED UP WID PRIDE
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Brother, sam you saved? Is you saved from sin?
(HUH%)
You nevuh sinned, brother?
(NO/)
N-o-o-o?...You're all puffed up mid pride, aintoha my...son....
Listen, Ah heard dere wuz a man who died on de craws fer me. An I
wuz baptized in de knowledge uh ts anyraved by de beloved Father
and de Ho -o -o -ly Ghost.
(GWAN, LEMME ALONEI)
Does yuh desahre de key, son, to de Kingdom xuh Hevven: Den wash
yuhself in de blud uh de lamb, son. In de knowlenge uh dat is
SALVASHDN.
DE KEY? HERE'S DE KEY...MAZUMA.I
A -a -a -h, no, my son. You is blinded an mis -guided. You is deaf, pn
you is mistable....
YEAH%
Son, donoha wanna save your soul from de livin HELL?
SOUL? WOTIS DAT? WHERE IS IT? IN MY LIVER, IN MY LUNGS, IN MY
BELLY? WHAT'S ITS ADDRESS?)
Address?...L-o-o-o..0„ son, it ain't got no address, de soul hasn't.
Least, I can't tell yuh.... De Lord he says it's in de Bible and he
made it, he should know. But de knowledge thereof, son, de Lord God,
in his almighty wisdom, he hid it foam me until I reach de next worl'.
NEXT WOILDI DON' KNOW DE PLACE. NEVAH HOID OF IT.)
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HERMAN PARTNOW
ALL PUFFED UP WID PRIDE
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No?....I've heard of it, son. I knows it.... Listen, ite not
livin now, son...Ahee waitin -dot's all. Use purparin an ahse
purgin myself flom all evil.
(NOT MEI)
Aintoha IfraidT.., Aintoha 'f raid yuh may go to de livin HELL?
N-A,A-AS I KNOW IF I DO I'M GONNA MEET LOTSA PEOPLE DORN DERE.
YOU TOOS)
Meroy, n -o -o -o. I don' manna see you down dere gon. You'll look
so strange an terrible void fire all around yuh....No, indeed.... Purge
2102MI yo' heart, son.....
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Herman Partnow
O.K. AMERICA
MO
40AwbOAmorioan. Starvel Starve' Eatt..Xot?Wbt?....Air...Ai-r-r-r-r.
O.K. America... Bart Hart Bart....You bastahrds, you LAHFF...
O.K. AMERICA....'Scoose,
Look, out on finger...Blood. See. Same. You. Me. Wop, sheeny, dutchman,
mickie. Same. All. Sure. Blood. Blood...Jou believe God: Godl Bahl....
GETS ON HIND LEGS, MAKING GESTURE OF DOG WAVING TAIL )...Nah-h....
Wu -r -r -k. Fah-h-hmt.... A -h -h -hl Go-o-odt Pleeze, misteh,
(YANKS HEAD ON SIDE, APING 7EGGAR)....Dime, misteh, pleeze....Baht...
Eight peebul. Mone4Peebul. Star-r-rve. Eight mil-
Eins, rwei, drei, fur.... HOPS ON HIS FEET AND TURNS AROUND AND AROUND
e4,4, .DR -R -R -R -R Tu-r-r-rn ar-r-r-oun' and ar-r-r-ount. You. You.
You. Dizziel.....Har. Hare Ear. You bastahr-r-r-ds, you LAUF, gout...
SHAKES HIS FIST AT THE HIGH BUILDINGS ftionditlembe Soon cry,
C -R -R -R -Y..... O.K. AMERICA%
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HERMAY PARTNOW
I AM THAT I AM
)(ou know de things you shouldn't know and the things you should
ow you don't know at all.
I KNOW YOU.
Haw oan you know me when I don't know myself
TELL, WHO ARE YOU ANYWAY?
I am what I am because I am.
WHY?
Beoause I am that I am. I was before you will be. And you are what
I ain't. And -what's more, you can't even be an ain't.
YOU'LL GO! TO HELL FOR SUCH TALK.
How can I go there when I'm there already. Hell's here -inside me.
Heaven's inside me. I'm as high and as law as the earth.
LISTEN 14
I know before I listen and I. listen '.-efore I kn
Aii.st21.ah. I'LL GET THE BEST OF YOU YET.
Haw can you get the best of me when you can't get the best of yourself2
YOU SEE,
WAIT1I'LL GET YOU TOMORROW.
Why should I wait for tomorrow when tomorrow will come to me.
LIMN, Ittlxgismzyem VTR pt 301111 mom II Wf RAW BM, I'LL
You haven't got the money. The money's got you.
Anzsatux AN, DRY UP, WILL YUH?
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Herman Partnow
MON, BREAK IT UP, BOYS.
Own, break it up. Hire a hall. Cimon, beat it. Yuhire blockin
road,
dahmmtk. Cfmon, boys, break it up.