Oh Lawd, Berta Berta, Oh lawd gal, who-ah.

Oh Lawd, Berta Berta, Oh lawd gal, who-ah.

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That’s the one trouble with this country: everything, weather, all, hangs on too long. Like our rivers, our land: opaque, slow, violent; shaping and creating the life of man in its implacable and brooding image. Mountain woman in the hills near Austin, Texas, by Alan Lomax.

That’s the one trouble with this country: everything, weather, all, hangs on too long. Like our rivers, our land: opaque, slow, violent; shaping and creating the life of man in its implacable and brooding image.



Mountain woman in the hills near Austin, Texas, by Alan Lomax.

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Family portrait, south texas border, early 1900’s.

Family portrait, south texas border, early 1900’s.

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