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"I used to be a banjo picker in Civil War times. I could pick a church
song just as good as I could a reel.

"Some of 'em I used to pick was 'Amazing Grace', 'Old Dan Tucker,' Used
to pick one went like this

'Farewell, farewell, sweet Mary;
I'm ruined forever
By lovin' of you;
Your parents don't like me,
That I do know
I am not worthy to enter your d[o].'

I used to pick

'Dark was the night
Cold was the ground
On which the Lord might lay.'

I could pick anything.

'Amazing grace
How sweet it sounds
To save a wretch like me.'

'Go preach my Gospel