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Jean Ritchie Courtesy of the Kentucky
Oral History Commission,
This is Jean Ritchie, born in Viper,
Kentucky, in 1922. Well I was the last one in the family, number
14, and had a lot of older sisters—There was 11 girls born in the
family, and 3 boys. And we . . . didn’t have much entertainment,
but just what we could do ourselves. Even when I was a baby there
wasn’t much besides Saturday night square dances at someone’s house.
. . . Or . . . just sitting on the porch and singing.
Everybody had a, could carry a tune, you know. So we liked to sing
together, and we’d . . . Us girls would sing over the dish
and— the songs we knew were the songs we learned from the old folks. .
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