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My father was a self-taught mandolin player. He was one of the best string instrument players in our town. He could not read
music, but if he heard a tune a few times, he could play it. When he was younger, he was a member of a small country music band.
They would play at local dances and on a few occasions would play for the local radio station. He often told us how he had 2)
auditioned and earned a position in a band that featured Patsy Cline as their lead singer. He told the family that after he was
hired he never went back. Dad was a very religious man. He stated that there was a lot of drinking and cursing the day of his
audition and he did not want to be around that type of environment.
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Occasionally, Dad would get out his mandolin and play for the family. We three children: Trisha, Monte and I, George Jr., would
often sing along. Songs such as the Tennessee Waltz, Harbor Lights and around Christmas time, the well-known 3)rendition of Silver
Bells. "Silver Bells, Silver Bells, its Christmas time in the city" would ring throughout the house. One of Dad's favorite 4)hymns
was "The Old Rugged Cross". We learned the words to the hymn when we were very young, and would sing it with Dad when he would
play and sing. Another song that was often shared in our house was a song that accompanied the Walt Disney series: Davey Crockett.
Dad only had to hear the song twice before he learned it well enough to play it. "Davey, Davey Crockett, King of the Wild
Frontier" was a favorite song for the family. He knew we enjoyed the song and the program and would often get out the mandolin
after the program was over. I could never get over how he could play the songs so well after only hearing them a few times. I
loved to sing, but I never learned how to play the mandolin. This is something I regret to this day.
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Dad loved to play the mandolin for his family he knew we enjoyed singing, and hearing him play. He was like that. If he could give
pleasure to others, he would, especially his family. He was always there, sacrificing his time and efforts to see that his family
had enough in their life. I had to mature into a man and have children of my own before I realized how much he had sacrificed.
I joined the United States Air Force in January of 1962. Whenever I would come home on leave, I would ask Dad to play the
mandolin. Nobody played the mandolin like my father. He could touch your soul with the tones that came out of that old mandolin.
He seemed to shine when he was playing. You could see his pride in his ability to play so well for his family.
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When Dad was younger, he worked for his father on the farm. His father was a farmer and 5)sharecropped a farm for the man who
owned the property. In 1950, our family moved from the farm. Dad had gained employment at the local 6)limestone 7)quarry. When the
quarry closed in August of 1957, he had to seek other employment. He worked for Owens Yacht Company in Dundalk, Maryland and for
Todd Steel in Point of Rocks, Maryland. While working at Todd Steel, he was involved in an accident. His job was to roll angle
iron onto a 8)conveyor so that the 9)welders farther up the production line would have it to complete their job. On this
particular day Dad got the third index finger of his left hand mashed between two pieces of steel. The doctor who operated on the
finger could not save it, and Dad ended up having the tip of the finger 10)amputated. He didn't lose enough of the finger where it
would stop him picking up anything, but it did impact his ability to play the mandolin.
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After the accident, Dad was reluctant to play the mandolin. He felt that he could not play as well as he had before the accident.
When I came home on leave and asked him to play he would make excuses for why he couldn't play. Eventually, we would 11)wear him
down and he would say "Okay, but remember, I can't hold down on the strings the way I used to" or "Since the accident to this
finger I can't play as good". For the family it didn't make any difference that Dad couldn't play as well. We were just glad that
he would play. When he played the old mandolin it would carry us back to a cheerful, happier time in our lives. "Davey, Davey
Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier", would again be heard in the little town of Bakerton, West Virginia.
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In August of 1993 my father was 12)diagnosed with 13)inoperable lung cancer. He chose not to receive 14)chemotherapy treatments so
that he could live out the rest of his life in dignity. About a week before his death, we asked Dad if he would play the mandolin
for us. He made excuses but said "okay". He knew it would probably be the last time he would play for us. He 15)tuned up the old
mandolin and played a few notes. When I looked around, there was not a dry eye in the family. We saw before us a quiet humble man
with an inner strength that comes from knowing God, and living with him in one's life. Dad would never play the mandolin for us
again. We felt at the time that he wouldn't have enough strength to play, and that makes the memory of that day even stronger. Dad
was doing something he had done all his life, giving. As sick as he was, he was still pleasing others. Dad sure could play that
Mandolin!
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All rivers run into the sea
1. A bosom friend afar brings a distant land near. 海内存知己，天 079;若比邻。
2. A common danger causes common action. 同舟共济。
3. A contented mind is a continual / perpetual feast. 知足常乐。
4. A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit. 吃一堑，长一智 290;
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5. A guest should suit the convenience of the host. 客随主便。
6. A letter from home is a priceless treasure. 家书抵万金。
7. All rivers run into the sea. 殊途同归。
8. All time is no time when it is past. 机不可失，时不 877;来。
9. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. 一日一个苹果，$ 523;体健康不求医。
10. As heroes think, so thought Bruce. 英雄所见略同。
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11. A young idler, an old beggar. 少壮不努力，老 823;徒伤悲。
12. Behind the mountains there are people to be found. 天外有天，山外 377;山。
13. Bad luck often brings good luck. 塞翁失马，安知& 750;福。
14. Bread is the stall of life. 面包是生命的支 609;。(民以食为天。 ;)
15. Business is business. 公事公办。
16. Clumsy birds have to start flying early. 笨鸟先飞。
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17. Courtesy costs nothing. 礼多人不怪。
18. Custom makes all things easy. 习惯成自然。
19. Desire has no rest. 人的欲望无止境 290;
20. Difficult the first time, easy the second. 一回生，二回熟 290;
21. Do not change horses in mid-stream. 别在河流中间换' 532;。
22. Do not have too many irons in the fire. 贪多嚼不烂。
23. Do not pull all your eggs in one basket. 别把所有的蛋都 918;在一个篮子里。 (不要孤注一掷。)
24. Do not teach fish to swim. 不要班门弄斧。
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25. East or west, home is the best. 东奔西跑，还是 478;里好。
26. Experience is the best teacher. 实践出真知。
27. Fact is stranger than fiction. 事实比虚构更离 855;。(大千世界，无 ;奇不有。)
28. Faith can move mountains. 信念能移山。(精 5802;所至，金石为开 ;。)
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29. First impressions are half the battle. 先入为主。
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Emne: could play that Mandolin!
