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Transcription: [00:44:47]
{SPEAKER name="Interviewer"}
Imagine a country boy wanting to see the electric lights, and so he goes to town and gets in trouble. But, I guess we've been staying out of trouble, us country boys from Georgia have been having a good time here in Washington, very happy to be at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
[00:45:03]
And these old tunes have a lot to say, I think, to the present generation. Like, Gordon uses the expression, some of the old tunes 'give him a blood transfusion.'
[00:45:13]
And a few minutes ago when he was playing that Leather Britches -which, by the way, is an old tune that came-- was originally from the British Isles, I believe it was called Lord McDonald's Reel, or something like that, before it was called Lea--

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Transcription Notes:
Song is "Leather Britches" https://www.loc.gov/item/afcreed000010/