:05:00
so I mean, you just wore
two or three shirts at a time.
:05:02
Slept in your clothes.
:05:06
The pit was on the outer limits of the town.
That's where everybody worked.
:05:10
You couldn't be a rebel.
It was so cold that you couldn't be bad.
:05:14
The weather equalizes everything
very quickly.
:05:16
And nobody was gonna really pull a stickup.
:05:19
There really wasn't any philosophy,
any idiom...
:05:22
any ideology to really go against.
:05:28
My father and his brothers,
they had an electrical store.
:05:32
'Bout the first job I ever had
was sweeping up the store...
:05:34
and I was supposed to learn...
:05:36
the discipline of hard work or something,
you know...
:05:40
and the merits of employment.
:05:50
Circuses came through.
:05:52
There were tent shows
at the carny midways.
:05:55
And they had barkers.
:05:56
Got a horse with two heads!
:05:58
Got a chicken in there with a man's face!
:06:00
Come see the girl-boy!
:06:02
It was just more rural back then.
:06:04
That's what people did.
You could see guys in blackface:
:06:08
George Washington in blackface...
:06:11
or Napoleon wearing blackface.
:06:14
Like, weird Shakespearean things.
:06:16
Stuff that didn't really make any sense
at the time.
:06:19
And people had other jobs
in the carny team.
:06:22
I saw somebody putting makeup on...
:06:23
getting back from running
the Ferris wheel once.
:06:26
And I thought that was pretty interesting.
:06:27
Guy's got, you know... He does two things,
you know, or something like that.
:06:31
I've got a song here that I'd like to do
that's been awful kind to me and the boys.
:06:36
It's a tune called:
:06:37
Cold Cold Heart.