Susie,Billy,Martha and Lana Nelson
by Martha Jewel Mathews
from Willie:Â An Autobiography
by Willie Nelson, with Bud Schrake
“One story everybody thinks they know about Willie and me is the one about me catching him passed out drunk and sewing him up in a bedsheet and then beating the hell out of him with a broom handle.
For years I’ve been hearing and reading that story. People who’ve never so much as said hello to me or Willie tell that bedsheet story like they saw it with their own eyes. They just laugh and laugh, like, hey, that Martha, she was one tough cookie, wasn’t she?
Well, it never happened.
How dumb would I have to be to try to sew Willie into a bedsheet? You know how long that would take to sit there and take stitch after stich?
The truth is, I tied him up with the kids’ jump ropes before I beat the hell out of him.
I scooted the jump ropes underneath him while he was asleep and knotted them up on top. I tied him up as tight as I could. The kids were waiting outside in our getaway car. I started whipping Willie pretty good, and he commenced yelling, and I was crying and cussing. Oh, it was quite a commotion, but nothing our neighbors at Dunns Trailer Park in Nashville hadn’t heard coming out of our trailer before.
Hell, we were just kids trying to deal with being married and having babies but no money and no home life to speak of — just one beer joint after another, sleeping under a different roof every few months, drinking way too much whiskey. Neither me nor Willie knew what to expect form marriage. We thought being young and in love was all we needed.”
Write more, thats all I have to say. Literally, it seems as
though you relied on the video to make your point.
You obviously know what youre talking about, why throw away your intelligence on just
posting videos to your weblog when you could be giving us something enlightening to read?