The Night Roy Johnson Got Religion

Grandpa said:

I was standin' slap next to Roy
Johnson when he got the Holy
Ghost & started dancin'. He jumped
up on the bench & knocked off Old
Lady Miller's hat that had the
violets on it & hollered
Jesus, forgive me for my sins
or somethin' awful close to that.

He run around the tent, moanin'
& a-carryin' on like he
was the first lost lamb. The preacher
taken him & them others down
to the water to dunk 'em &
Roy come up out of there bawlin'
like to break your heart. Next day,
he got shot dead in a whorehouse.



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