This email came with such down-to-earth simplicity, perhaps even Moses would smile.
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Seems some people in Tennessee have trouble with those "shalts" and "shalt nots" in the Ten commandments. Folks just aren't used to talking like that. So, some folks in middle Tennessee got together and translated the "King James" into "Jackson County" language.
The Hillbilly's Ten Commandments (rearranged per Moses)
(posted on the wall at Cross Trails Church in Gainesboro, TN)
(1) Put nothin' before God
(2) Just one God
(3) Watch yer mouth
(4) Git yourself to Sunday meetin'
(5) Honor yer Ma & Pa
(6) No killin'
(7) No foolin' around with another fellow's gal
(8) Don't take what ain't yers
(9) No tellin' tales or gossipin'
(10) Don't be hankerin' for yer buddy's stuff
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