Rhoda McMillon (McMillon Settlement, Cocke County, Tennessee) was age 92 when
interviewed. She had a fourth-grade education and was a farm housewife.
I, I guess you people would like to know about the serenades and how young folks got along
back seventy years ago and longer. We had serenades. They'd make old big rattletraps they'd
call them, and they'd have bells and plows and every old noise, and they'd run around the
house, and they'd have awful times, and they'd, they couldn't get in, why they'd just keep right
on and whenever they'd get in, they'd go through the house, and my, how, how they'd rattle
and, and bang around.
[JSH: Go ahead]
And they'd sometimes, some people would let them have a little dance after the serenade, and
some wouldn't, but they was always peaceable. They didn't dance [in] them times like they do
now when they just two get up on the floor and dance together.
----I don't, I guess that's about all about the serenading that I used to ever know anything about.