Narration v4

[Verse] [Johnny] How did how did pop Carter which is June's father Mama how did he celebrate Christmas when you all were first married [Maybelle] When we first married [June] Mama he didn't have a great big old copper kettle somewhere hid up in the mountain [Maybelle] June can tell you that story John But I will tell you that he used to go buy a bushel of apples And a bushel of oranges and fruit like that for the girls And he'd divided in three three ways and they could do what they wanted to If they want to give it away okay they couldn't have none of the rest of the others see Theirs had to last them through Christmas and you know They couldn't go to one of the other girls and say Hey give me some of your fruit mine's all gone [June] I want to tell you that story about how you asked about the celebrating Back years ago they didn't have too much to celebrate with Up in that country unless you made your own And my father somewhere had him the dandiest copper kettle with little pipes Going out all over it somewhere up in the hills [Harold] My uncle knew him [June] And my grandmother Carter was quite a woman And she never said one word to my daddy But she was always going into Clinch Mountain hunting wood And dragging it down on her back And she came out of there one day dragging that great big old forked stick With a copper kettle right on the end of it And she was my father's name was Ezra Carter and she'd say Ezra She said oh Ezra said look here Ezra I found the dandiest copper kettle for making apple butter And he never said a word [Anita] And we always had good apple butter