A midwestern parable

摘要

SINGING WAS something Willie Levi loved to do. When he was at the state school in Mexia, Texas, he belonged to a choir called the Sunshine Singers. They would tour round with a repertoire of hymns: "The Old Rugged Cross", "What a Friend We Have in Jesus". He sang more in church on Sundays: "Surely Goodness", "Amazing Grace". Along with the hymns he liked to shake his tambourine, to keep the beat. He could get music out of almost anything. If you gave him a comb, he could play it. And somewhere, in a pocket or a sock, he would keep apairofspoons.the regular white plastic ones you might pick up in a coffee place. He could play those, too.