Luyện nghe bài hát What It Was, Was Football (Parts 1 And 2)

What It Was, Was
It was last October, I believe it was. We was a-goin t hold
a tent service in college town.
And we got thar about dinnertime on And different ones
of us thought we ought to get us a to eat before
we set up the tent.
And so, we got down off of the truck and followed this little of
people through small little bitty patch of woods.
And we come up on a big sign, Get somethin to eat here!
And I went up and got me two hot dogs and a big drink.
And before I could take ary mouthful of food this whole raft of
come up around me
and got me to I couldnt eat nothin up like
and I dropped my big drink. I did!
Well friends, they commenced to and they wasnt so much
I do except to move with em.
Well, we commenced to go all kinds of doors and gates
and I dont know all, and I looked up over one of em
and it says North Gate, and we on a-goin through there,
and soon we come up on a young boy.
And he Ticket, please And I says Friend, I dont have a ticket.
I even know where it is that Im a-goin. I did!
Well he says Come out as as you can.
And I says Ill do erIll around the first chance I get.
Well, we kept on a-movin there and pretty soon everyone
got where it was that was agoin because they parted
and I see pretty good. I could!
And I seen was this whole raft a people a-settin on these
two banks and a-lookin at one acrosst this purty little
green cow pasture! Well, was! And somebody had took
and drawed white lines all over it and drove in it and
I dont what all! And I looked down there and I seen
five or six a-runnin up and down and a-blowin whistles!
was!
And then I looked down there and I seen these girls
a-wearin these bitty short dresses and a-dancin around,
an so I set down and Id see what it was that was
happen. I did!
And about the time I got set good, I looked down there
and I seen thirty or forty men come out of one end
of a big outhouse down there! They did!
An everybody where I was got up and hollered!
And about that time or forty come a-runnin out of the
other end of that outhouse and the other bank
got up and hollered!
An I this feller that was a-settin beside me, I says
Friend, what is it that theyre a-hollerin
Well he whopped me on the back and he
Buddy, a drink!
Well, I says I believe I have another big Orange.
An I got it and set down.
An when I got back there again, I seen that them men
had got in two bitty bunches down there.
They hadreal close together--and voted! They did!
They and elected one man apiece.
And them two men out in the middle of that cow pasture
and shook hands like they hadnt one another in a long time.
And then a convict over to where they was a-standin an he
took out a quarter and they commenced to odd-man there!
did!
Well, after a while I seen it was that they was a-odd-mannin for.
It was that both bunches-full of men wanted this funny-lookin
punkin to play with! They did, and I know friends that they
couldnt-a eat it cause they it the whole evenin
and it busted!
But what I was a-tellin was that both bunches-full wanted
that and one bunch got it an it made the other bunch
just as mad as they could be and friends I that evenin
the awfullest that Id ever seen in my life!
I did! They would run at one another and kick one
and throw one another down and stomp on one
and grind their feet in one another and I dont know all!
And just as as one would get hurt theyd tote him off
and run on!
Well, they done that as long as I set there but pretty
this boy that had said please he come up to me and
he says Friend, youre gonna to leave because it is that
you have a ticket. And I says Well, alright an I got up
an left. An I dont know, friends, until day what it was that they
was a-doin down there, but I have studied it, and I think its
some kindly of a contest where they see bunch-full of them
men can that punkin an run from one end of that cow pasture
to the othern without gettin knocked down
er steppin in !