Merle Travis quotes
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“I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.”
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“The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.”
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“Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.”
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“You load 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store.”
-- Merle Travis
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Source : Abraham Coles (1892). “Abraham Coles: Biographical Sketch, Memorial Tributes, Selections from His Works, (some Hitherto Unpublished.)”
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“It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.”
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“What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.”
Source : "The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World". Book by Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger (p. 57), 1999.
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