“You have to put up some kind of a beef. Scream or holler or scratch or make some sound that you’re alive and can fight.”
Context: You have to put up some kind of a beef. Scream or holler or scratch or make some sound that you’re alive and can fight. You know, cough or do something. Otherwise, they just walk past you and look at you and say, “He must be dead, he ain’t moving.”
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Bill Bailey (Spanish Civil War veteran)9
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