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U2
Thick paint tree
p.105

June 22, 1972

MINNIE EVANS
2

body would have the sense like you. What they would think you were funny and they would put you to a stake and burn you up.

N.H.S. Who told you that?

M.E. I don't know, a man. A lots of people tell me things you know - talking like that. In those days you know way back over a hundred years ago the people were funny. They didn't take things like - What's that? (referring to clouds) an airplaine or what is that thing a going there? I'd say a horse. It looks - I can't see it looks like a race horse.

V. CRAIG: It looks like a streak. Some kind of a streak.

M.E. The children been down there playing.

N.H.S. Tell us about it. Tell us about making that tree.

V. CRAIG: How did you make it?

M.E. I get paint buckets. Any kind of paint buckets and scrape the paint out of them and come in and stir the paint up some time with turpentine until I got it soft enough and pat it on the tree limbs and the different things like that and then I would have to put it aside and let it stay until it would get dry and hard and so it would take a long time you know for it to get dry. Sometime I would stick a pin down through it to see if it was hard and sometime I could stick the pin in there and the pin would bend and I would say oh it's hard enough. Then I would try over it again. So I just kept on doing that until I got that big old tree. I did it about, I bet I had about two gallons of paint in it altogether. T'was so heavy. (N.H.S. It's very heavy.)

M.E. (SINGS: "HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW")

...He is my portion 
My constant friend is He.
His eye is on the sparrow 
and I know He watches me.
His eye is on the sparrow 
and I know He watches me. 

I sing because I'm happy.
I sing because I am free.
His eye is on the sparrow