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\"\"<\/a>Gene Autry & Champion, The Wonder Horse<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ————<\/strong><\/p>\n

Daddy was a Pentecostal preacher in the Deep South with a list of sins as long as your arm he intended his children to avoid.\u00a0 Too late. We were already sinners. We’d been to California.\u00a0 We saw a picture show. Gramma K dropped us off at the Alex Theater in Glendale where we stayed for hours.\u00a0 She knew Daddy preached against it, but she didn’t care. Now we were back home in Arkansas, dreaming of how the rest of the world might be as soon as we could get there. My brother, Leslie Ray, was at the point in our church where a person is meant to declare himself and get baptized. He had no intention of doing that. Here’s a scene from my book, The Glory Road, <\/strong>which also appears in the play.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

– – – – – – – – – – –<\/strong><\/p>\n

Murfreesboro, Arkansas 1951<\/strong>
\nPopulation 1,075<\/strong><\/p>\n

Behind the parsonage, past the back yard and the weeping willow, our garden sprang forth, Reverend Jones’ agri-painting spread out in rows of different colors. Daddy’s years of living on farms taught him everything he needed to know about planting and tending and harvesting and he was determined we would also learn to grow and cook what we needed. This was the first time we’d had space for growing and we used every inch of it.<\/p>\n

A chicken wire fence enclosed three sides, with climbing vines already moving up and a row of Marigolds around the base. He said Marigolds discourage unwanted pests. The fourth side, closest to the house, had a picket fence with a gate. Adjacent to the garden was a shed where Daddy kept tools safe and dry.<\/p>\n

When he called us to come work in the garden, we raced to the back porch to put on our gardening shoes, which were last year’s school shoes. Daddy didn’t own casual shoes either. He gardened in his oldest hard-soled preacher shoes and pulled galoshes over them. \u00a0We went straight to the shed to pick our implements.<\/p>\n

Daddy said,<\/p>\n

“Nita Faye, that hoe\u2019s too big for you.\u00a0 Easy now.\u00a0 Maybe we’ll give you this trowel instead.\u00a0 Son, did you feed your rabbits?”<\/p>\n

Even when the completion of an assigned chore was more a future plan than an actual fact, Leslie Ray answered the same way every time the question came up.<\/p>\n

“Yessir, fed ’em.”<\/p>\n

Daddy took the trowel from me and demonstrated.<\/p>\n

“Don’t slice into things like that. Turn the dirt over real gentle. You gotta work with intention<\/em>, girl, like this.”<\/p>\n

He reached around and brought up a clump of tiny potatoes in one swoop.<\/p>\n

He asked Leslie,<\/p>\n

‘How about the chickens?”<\/p>\n

“Fed ’em.”<\/p>\n

“Son, tell me, what were you thinking, lettin’ those pigeons out on Sunday?”<\/p>\n

“I wanted to see if they’d come home.\u00a0 See if they’re homing pigeons.”<\/p>\n

“You know where your pigeons went, don’t you?\u00a0 They flew straight over the congregation just when people were leavin’ church.”<\/p>\n

Daddy was trying not to laugh.<\/p>\n

“The whole situation could-a been avoided if you’d-a been in Sunday School class where you belong.”<\/p>\n

I said,<\/p>\n

“He hates Sunday School.\u00a0 Leslie Ray’s a heathen.”<\/p>\n

Leslie said,<\/p>\n

“Shut up Nita Faye.”<\/p>\n

Daddy responded,<\/p>\n

“Boy, I don’t want to hear ‘shut up’ come out of your mouth again.”<\/p>\n

We weren’t allowed to yell at each other or hit each other, so we slung around some language to make a point. We called each other the strongest names we could think of, words that sometimes showed up in Daddy’s sermons, therefore I got away with ‘heathen’ for a while but Daddy kept tightening the rules.<\/p>\n

“Son, you know what those pigeons did right on top of the congregation, don’t you?”<\/p>\n

He burst out laughing and we joined in and had to stop digging, we were laughing so hard.<\/p>\n

“You should-a seen Sister Anthony!\u00a0 You better hope they come home a different way than they went!”<\/p>\n

Daddy strode up and down the rows, a satisfied man plucking a weed, tapping a cantaloupe.<\/p>\n

“Leslie Ray, bring in some-a them green onions.\u00a0 That row over yonder\u2019s about right. Nita Faye, you\u2019re not doin\u2019 so good with those potatoes. Here, dig \u2018em up like this. Give ’em a little pull. Just a little. See?”<\/p>\n

He got down on his knees again and unearthed more of the prettiest\u00a0\u00a0 potatoes. I copied his technique.<\/p>\n

“Daddy, can we have new potatoes and creamed peas and cornbread for dinner?”<\/p>\n

“We can if you don’t chop those poor little things all to pieces.”<\/p>\n

He started to whistle, then hum, then he sang,<\/p>\n

\u00a0I’m back in the saddle again
\nOut where a friend is a friend
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

I sang too.<\/p>\n

Where the longhorn cattle feed
\nOn the lowly jimson weed
\nI’m back in the saddle again.<\/em><\/p>\n

Leslie taunted,<\/p>\n

“That’s Nita Faye’s boyfriend’s <\/em>song.\u00a0 She loooooves<\/em> Gene Autry.”<\/p>\n

“Yes I do.\u00a0 I’m gonna marry Gene Autry and sing on the radio with him and move to California and live right by Gramma K.”<\/p>\n

Daddy said,<\/p>\n

“Well now, Nita Faye, you can’t marry Gene Autry.”<\/p>\n

Leslie added,<\/p>\n

“Yeah because when you grow up he’ll be too old to marry you by then.”<\/p>\n

Daddy kept collecting vegetables, putting them into the basket we used so the dirt could shake out before we took them into the kitchen.\u00a0 He was\u00a0 serious when he said,<\/p>\n

“Naw – cause I\u2019m not sure he\u2019s right with the Lord.\u00a0 Don\u2019t matter if a man\u2019s famous.\u00a0 He\u2019s not goin\u2019 to heaven unless he gets down on his knees and gets saved first.”<\/p>\n

“Uh huh<\/em>!\u00a0 I bet he’s saved!”<\/p>\n

“Well he’s not usin’ his voice to sing the Lord’s music out in public like he ought to.\u00a0 The Lord gives you a gift like that, you got to use it only for him.”<\/p>\n

And just like that, after withering my dream of being Mrs. Autry, Daddy picked up the basket full of beautiful baby potatoes\u00a0 and headed to the back steps, where he took off his galoshes and went whistling into the kitchen.<\/p>\n

– – – – – – – – —<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s an old recording of my future husband singing
\nBack In The Saddle Again<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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