So you get pics I hope… and maybe the video if it links…
I like this one… And I first heard that story from a Chaplain who was an amateur magician.
And this looks a LOT like where I grew up, a creek like this ran through the back pasture and I grew up roaming that creek for the four miles between my house and the highway…
This is NOT where I grew up, but I love the paint job…
Not to pick nits or anything… coz the video was very good, on the whole… BUT: no self-respecting sergeant would allow any of his troops to call him “sir.” Nevah hoppen, Gee-Eye.
As for the song referenced in the vid, I remember Wink Martindale’s version that came out when I was in high school.
I noticed the “sir” to the sergeant, too, but the story’s too good to let it interfere. 🙂
That “backyard” shot looks a lot like the woods where I grew up, too. Wish I could walk those trails again…
Buck- Yep!
Rev- I did go back, now it’s all paved over and businesses and a street runs through it… sigh
I have seen the story many times from my very younger days on. It is good, though I do wander if it is a true story or just inspired by an entertainer. And I, too, lived in the woods on creeks and rivers. Played many hours with crayfish, hellgrammites for fish bate, and all the critters along the way.
CP- Yep…
I regret I couldn’t give my kids a “country raising” like I had.
I used to fish in a creek next to my Uncle and Aunts place. We even trapped along the creek.
Here are two versions of the deck of cards,
T.Texas Tyler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pEV134UesI
Hank Williams Sr.
Ride your bike a couple miles to the mighty Huron River to fish.
Another day, another direction to play in the creek.
Build a treehouse, shoot tin cans, launch model rockets.
Ahhhh.
Good trick, that, with a good story.
As for the creek – I knew a place like that when I was younger, and wasn’t far from places like that in Alaska. Couldn’t wait to get away from it when I was younger, and don’t miss Alaska’s winter… but I sure do miss the woods.