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And l was offering an explanation,
not an excuse,
:32:03
- l myself am,,,
- Hey, hey, hey,,,
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,,,don't be explainin' me, dawg!
:32:06
You can't read
my motherfuckin' mind, man!
:32:09
You might got yo' Ph,D,,
but l got my GED!
:32:12
- Yes,
- Nigga!
:32:16
A fiery lad,,, but then youth is fiery,
:32:22
A fact often remarked upon
by the poets of the Romantic era,
:32:26
My youth, l was in church,
l wasn't walkin' around fiery,
:32:29
Youth ain't no excuse for nothin',
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Anyhow, l just came to show you the fife,
Othar's fife, Burned his own,
:32:40
l thought maybe, you bein'
a man of music, you'd be interested,
:32:44
Oh, indeed l am,
:32:46
Cut it hisself and burned his holes,
:32:50
The lsraelites called it a khalil,
:32:52
Yeah, you can read all about it in
the Bible, Ain't nothin' new under the sun,
:32:57
lndeed not,
:33:03
Gone these 20 years,
:33:07
He was some kind of man,
:33:15
Blowed the khalil,
:33:23
l don't suppose Othar ever turned his hand
:33:28
or, or turned his lip
to blowing the shofar?
:33:37
The ceremonial ram's horn
sounded by the priests of the Hebrews,
:33:43
No, l don't know nothin' about that,
Othar never blowed no shofar!
:33:49
- Of course not,
- Not to the extent of my knowledge,
:33:52
The khalil was good enough
for my Othar,
:33:57
He was some kind of man,