"Howdy, I'm just so proud to be here" Her greeting made us all feel good inside With her corny home spun humor and her friendly warm chit chat And the funny little price tag always dangling from her hat Loved by everyone who knew her She was everybody's friend She was truly a legend in her own time And The world will never see the likes of Minnie Pearl again MINNIE PEARL ROSE And MINNIE wasn't even her real name We all knew it but to us it didn't matter For MINNIE and Sarah Ophelia, to her fans were one and the same All the country music legends who have made the crossing too Thank you MINNIE, thanks for fifty years of laughter And with heavy heart a grateful world bids a fond farewell to you GOODBYE MINNIE CopyrightŠ 1998 by Mary Jones Page Written And Designed By Mary Jones 2003
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That was MINNIE, dear dear sweet MINNIE
Granted,her jokes were downright corny
Minnie's gone now, gone to join her old friends
Few performers in the history of show business were as universally loved for as long as Sarah Ophelia Coley Cannon (Minnie Pearl). She was not a great comedienne in the true sense of the word, most of her jokes were not original material and she told the same ones over and over hundreds of times. It wasn't so much what Minnie said as how she said it that made her so funny and lovable. With her sunny personality,her down home friendliness, her home spun country humor,and the ever present $1.98 price tag dangling from her hat, she won the hearts not only of Americans but of people in many parts of the world, her name became a household word. When Minnie spoke of her ficticious home town of Grinder Switch or her Uncle Nabob and other family members and hometown friends we believed her because we wanted to believe they really existed. In real life Minnie was a very well educated and cultured woman who came from an upper middle class family, Minnie even went to an exclusive girl's finishing school. But when she put on her "Minnie Pearl" costume she became Minnie Pearl, she loved the character and so did the world. Even people who hated country music couldn't help but love Minnie, I think we would secretly all have loved to have had a "real life" cousin just like her. Minnie had a big heart and loved nothing better than to give struggling young performers a "hand up" whenever and whereever she could. She was a one-of-a-kind, our Minnie, and those of us who were lucky enough to get to know this remarkable woman through her simple country humor hand her lovable personality will never forget her. And though singing was not her strong suit, to put it nicely,we even loved to hear her sing anyway. Who can forget Minnie singing "You can have my coffee, you can have my tea, But just you let my feller be, I'm jealous,jealous hearted me, I'm just as jealous as I can be. Minnie Pearl will live forever in the annals of country music. Minnie passed away from cancer in 1996, but she still lives on in the hearts of those who loved her, and that includes the maker of this web page---me!!!!
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