West Helena

I didn't want to say goodbye.

And even with Dust My Broom, what I did is I changed it to if I'm not in West Helena, he'll be in Chicago, I know.

Obviously, I live in Chicago, but Helena is really important to me because that's where when I started off at the Blues Challenge in Memphis, I got an invitation to go to Helena, Arkansas, and be on the King Biscuit Time show.

And I played at the King Biscuit Blues Festival several times because of a man named Sunshine Sonny Payne, who was very much of a nice blues mentor to me.

He'll joke, you don't look a day older, my friend.

Put my arm around his shoulder, put his arm around mine.

It'll be like the good old times So tomorrow I'm gonna take my boat Down to the river and I'm gonna flow to heaven Now I'm sitting in the corner bar with Ed The doctor said that it finally spread Put his keys in my hand and the leash for Jack I could feel the weight fall from his back He said, I believe Jesus died for our sins I believe that he'll rise again Father McNally told me early today All of my sins have been washed away So tomorrow I'm gonna take my boat Down to the river and I'm gonna float to heaven I'm going to heaven So tomorrow I'm gonna take my boat Down the sunny river and I'm gonna float to heaven I'm going to heaven I'm going to heaven Gonna write him a letter, telephone every town I know Gonna write him a letter, telephone everyone I know If he ain't in West Helena, he's in Chicago, I know I believe, I believe my time and break up this happy home.

Yeah.

And he said the killing, the massacre, was just atrocious killing.

And they could not talk about it for years because if they did, they could be lynched for talking about what they had to go through to just stay there in Phillips County, which they eventually moved to West Helena, Arkansas, and on into a place called Southland, which is another farmland.

But the land they owned, they never got it back, and they couldn't even sue for the land to get it back.

So right now we are fighting to get some of our property back right now or to get paid for it.

So we've got explosive power in the backfield along with the fine passing arms of both Kim King and Steve Spurrier.

And now the officials, the referee, Pete Williams from Miami, the umpire, R.L. Fady of Jackson, Tennessee, the linesman, D.L. Claiborne of Easy Point, Georgia, the field judge, Johnny Langford of Atlanta, the back judge, Johnny Grace of West Helena, Arkansas, and operating the electric clock, Jimmy Harper of Atlanta.

And they are now escorting the captains.

And for Georgia Tech, the defensive captains, Billy Shore, And Sammy Burke, the offensive captains, Bill Moore and Jim Breland.

So we've got explosive power in the backfield along with the fine passing arms of both Kim King and Steve Spurrier.

And now the officials, the referee, Pete Williams from Miami, the umpire, R.L. Fady of Jackson, Tennessee, the linesman, D.L. Claiborne of Easy Point, Georgia, the field judge, Johnny Langford of Atlanta, the back judge, Johnny Grace of West Helena, Arkansas, and operating the electric clock, Jimmy Harper of Atlanta.

And they are now escorting the captains.

And for Georgia Tech, the defensive captains, Billy Shore, and Sammy Burke the offensive captains Bill Moore and Jim Breland and for Florida Bill Carr and Red Anderson center and guard respectively we are having the introductions of the co-captains with Orange Bowl queens and princesses surrounding them.