by Lee Smith
“Bright Morning Stars,” as arranged and adapted by Tony and Irene Saletan Copyright 1970 Hillgreen Music (BMI).
And thanks her friends:Retha Danvers, for the lyrics of “Shoes”
Annie Dillard, for the song title “Two Lefts Don’t Make a Right”
Susan Ketchin, for the song titles “You Made My Day Last Night” and “What Happened to the Good in the Good Old Boys?”
Rita Quillen, for the song title “If Drinkin’ Don’t Kill Me, Your Memory Will”
About the Author
Lee Smith is the author of fifteen works of fiction including Oral History, Fair and Tender Ladies, and her recent Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger. She has received many awards including the North Carolina Award for Literature and an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; her novel The Last Girls was a New York Times bestseller as well as winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. She lives in North Carolina.