Ote & Myrtie Talking Blues By Gerry Hubbard
Talking blues is a form of country music. It is characterized by rhythmic speech or near-speech where the melody is free, but the rhythm is strict. See below for Wikipedia link.
Talking blues is a form of country music. It is characterized by rhythmic speech or near-speech where the melody is free, but the rhythm is strict. See below for Wikipedia link.
Ote and Myrtie were our neighbors up the road a half a mile.
Spinster maid and bachelor brother and you seldom saw them smile.
Pinched lips, all prim and proper, all clothes buttoned to the top,
But always free and easy with the rumors they would drop.
Myrtie was a teacher long retired but taught in church.
While Otis ran some “young stock” and I guess he never worked.
Got the mumps when just a teen that my father said “moved down” .
Just another reason that no children were around.
'Cause I always thought them married when I saw them on the road,
In that pretty two-door Chevy with their monthly grocery load.
We usually never saw or heard them very much at all
‘Less our cows got in their garden then we’d get an angry call.
Us kids and Dad would get the cows and try to fix the fence,
But a ruined and trampled garden? There is no recompense.
“Good fences make good neighbors” are the words of Robert Frost,
And we should have kept them better no matter what the cost.
Then I get a slightest comfort when I think about it all,
He also wrote “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_blues
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