Song: Redneck Yacht Club
By: Craig Morgan
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"Sure I can," Jack said with assuredness.
"But your winter, cold weather, snow, ice, and all that. Wouldn't sweltering summers harm you?" The confused family member asked.
"Not at all! In fact, I and a bunch of my misfit friends have a standing membership at the Redneck Yacht Cub."
"The what club now?"
Jack Laughed. "It's held on Percy Priest Lake in Davidson County, TN. Not really a resort or clubhouse, just a bunch of us misfit spirits and myths who like to hang together for summer fun."
"Tell us about it!" Candus encouraged.
Jack took a quick look around and said, "Anyone got a banjo?"
Grandpa Bennet handed one over and Jack strummed it a few times. Next, he asked for a fiddlest to volunteer. Aunt Greta surprised many when she came over and produced said instrument. Jack whispered in Greta's ear and she nodded after a while, showing she understood what Jack had told her. (1) Then the winter spirit began picking a tune on the banjo quickly followed by the sawing harmony of the fiddle.
"I meet my buddies out on the lake, we head out to a special place we love, but just a few folks know. There's no signing up no monthly dews, grab a boat and join us at Party Cove. You can come on in the waters fine, just idli on over and toss a line. We've got bass trackers, wave riders, and a party barge, strung together like a floating trailer park. Anchored out and getting loud all summer long. Side by side there's 5 boathouse front porches, astroturf, lawn chairs, and tiki torches. Regular Joe's rocking the boat that's us! The Redneck Yacht Club."
Jack told how boats of all kinds and made from all types of materials, some nothing more them constructs like Sandy's dream sand creations, would circle up creating a lagoon in the middle for swimming, how races were held all throughout the cove with Jetskis and wind serfers. Sometimes with the vehicles alone and sometimes they towed skiers, tubers, and borders. The water fights using balloons, water guns, and powers alike, which left no one dry by the end.
"Who's all there with you Jack?" Jamie asked.
"Well, there's Bob, the 'president' who started the club. He's a cactic cat that got sick of the desert and became obsessed with lakes. Then theirs the fearsome critters girls: Sally the hidebehind, Betty the teakettler, Charity the hangdown, Tamera the goofus, Jen the gagas, Dillia the sidehill gouger, and Freta the wampus cat. They like to sun themselves till it gets hot enough to jump in the water. And of course theirs other weather spirits who just want breaks, not to mention the few winter sprites and fairies that welcomed me to join in the first time about 10 years ago."
Wide eyes grew all the wider as Jack continued talking about the club members and the summertime fun they all had together. Jamie personally was very happy to learn that his Uncle wasn't completely alone all the years before he became a Guardian.
"When the party comes to an end at the onset of fall we always have the lake to ourselves so we make the biggest waves and wakes that we can to say goodbye till next summer! We even hit the no-wake zones."
"Jack!" Several adults chastised at once.
Jack just shrugged and grinned mischievously! "What, we make sure the shoreline is protected from damage."
The shaking of heads was his only answer.
All of the spirits and mythics I mentioned come from the desert or the Great Lakes folklore.
Percy Priest Lake in Davidson County, TN is the location where 'The Red Neck Yhat Club' music video was recorded.