Billy Howell Archives - Delta Bohemian

A Prayer for a Friend

August 13, 2015 Leave a Comment

Prayerful Remonstrations in the Rain [youtube width=”600″ height=”350″]http://youtu.be/BBB9n-lbdts[/youtube] By Poor William RADIOLAND VIDEO A Prayer for a Friend Friend, I am ashamed to say I hardly know you for I’m ‘sposed to know you well. I call you friend but you are much closer than a friend, even closer than a brother.

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Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep

December 1, 2010 2 Comments

By Pontificus Minimus (Clarksdale, Mississippi) Now I lay me down to sleep. …I pray the Lord my soul to keep. [If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take]. Bless Momma and Daddy, Lou and Frank, Granny and Mammy, Vester and Nettie, John McKee, and everybody I love, and […]

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Delta Bohemian – what is it?

November 22, 2010 13 Comments

Madge Howell and Billy Howell have created the Delta Bohemian website at www.deltabohemian.com Check it out and see what you think!

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