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To: BuffaloJack

My daughter is a nurse at that hospital.
She had misgivings at first, but they offered a $500 bonus for anyone who got the shot.


Johnny Cash has an opinion on that. It goes like this:

Some people say a man is made out of mud
A poor man’s made out of muscle and blood
Muscle and blood and skin and bones
A mind that’s weak and a back that’s strong

You load sixteen tons, and what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don’t you call me ‘cause I can’t go
I owe my soul to the company store

I was born one mornin’ when the sun didn’t shine
I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine
I loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal
And the straw boss said “Well, a-bless my soul”

You load sixteen tons, and what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don’t you call me ‘cause I can’t go
I owe my soul to the company store

I was born one mornin’, it was drizzlin’ rain
Fightin’ and trouble are my middle name
Raised…


25 posted on 06/09/2021 4:49:46 AM PDT by zaxtres (`)
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To: zaxtres

Actually, that singer was Tennessee Ernie Ford


27 posted on 06/09/2021 4:52:08 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Like BLM, Joe Biden is a Domestic Enemy )
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