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Oh, this is one of my favorites.

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It's called "Prohibition
and Country Dances,"

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and it occurred
over by Cloverdale.

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And it was another one
that Wilder told me about.

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And it was about Lee
Howard, and Lee Howard

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was the guy who was in the
other poem about Rex McDonald.

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Lee was-- God.

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I went down there,
and Lee had just shot

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a hole in a surveyor's
window in his car

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because he passed Lee's
house, and he didn't stop

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to ask permission to go by.

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Anyway, so--

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"Well, one time
there was a dance

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over the hill at Cloverdale.

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it was out under the
blackjack oak limbs.

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It was between the arroyo
and the fork in the road.

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It was where they'd
been a-stealin'

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old Lee Howard's whiskey.

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Every time there was
a Cloverdale dance,

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they'd let Lee
have a few drinks,

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and after he was
good and liquored up,

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they'd get his bottle.

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Then, it was kind of hard
for old Lee to remember just

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where he'd hid his bottle."

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Now, there probably
are some of you

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in this room who have
had that situation occur.

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"But finally, Lee figured
out what they was a-doin'.

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So he poured some of his
whiskey into a bottle.

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Then, he filled the rest of
that bottle with croton oil.

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You know, that's
that damn laxative

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that they give to
cattle and horses.

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After he filled it, he shook
it and took that bottle,

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and he hit it out
in the oak brush.

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He hid it, but not too good.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Well, one of them boys was
pretty proud of hisself.

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He'd found Lee's
bottle, and he stole it,

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and he was a-dancin' with
the prettiest girl there.

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They was a-sparkin', just
a-whirlin' across that old

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Cloverdale dance floor.

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They was a-do-si-doin' to beat
all hell till that boy began

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to feel that croton
oil hittin' him.

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I'll tell you, any
bottle of old Lee's

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that they found after that,
they sure sniffed around

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that bottle quite a bit.

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And they were damn sure
careful about drinking it.

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I'll tell you that old
boy with that croton oil--

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he left his pretty girl, and
he lit out for the far oaks.

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And when he ran, he ran
a-dancin', but he was

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a-dancin' to a different
kind of a tune."

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