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Elizabeth Cotten was a lady who died sometime the 1990's, she was a black woman who married when she was 15; she played guitar but she played it upside down because she was left handed, and so she eventually created her own style of picking. She wrote such songs as Freight Train, and Shake Sugaree. There's actually a video of her playing Freight Train on Youtube! --more than one. I can't find her palying Shake Sugaree, but I like it too, and YT has Dylan and others playing that song.
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you know what i hate ( other then nuts)- yep you guessed it- being ignored. (what a qwink-a-dink). oh, there are some who pay mind, but even then, being called crazy does give off the vibe-yes, stupid word- that says, "hey, you're really weird and you kinda freak me out." have you ever gotten that vive? funny, i get it almost everyday. why? -i'm just guessing you're asking me that- cause i am a little off my rocker when i speak. why? you see, my brain works way faster then my mouth can ...

Is that an apple pie I see?
Forged in a burning stove.
Once before I did drink tea
Ate a piece of apple pie, you see!

Earl Grey tastes quite right for me
The hot water, a touch of citrus,
Perhaps with a dash of milk,
Make great drinking joy.

However that apple pie you see,
Completes my moment of heaven
At four O’clock a piece of splendid pie
To choke, at four fifteen I die.

(poem deleted)

I took a hatchett to my head
swapped brain for compass there instead
My head did swell, so I laid down
Closed my eyes, heard not a sound
When I awoke, my skull had healed
A miracle of bone annealed
Then she walked in, with eyes so blue
My compass point was sharp and true

I stuck a needle in my eye
I pray dear lord I do not die
platinum siliconic thread
Is my computer in my head
Now I see what isn't there ...