Mountain Gal

'But you see what I mean. You're in the same kind of spot he was. You're doin' all right for a mountain girl, as the song says, but you feel the time has come to show 'em what you can do when you spit on your hands and go to it. You just carry on, honey, the way you want , and if anyone makes a holler, tell'em to drop dead.'

Ice in the Bedroom, Chapter 14

'[...] He just sat there sipping his third cocktail and tucking into the potted shrimps and playing records. He was particularly found of Dorothy Shay. He played that Mountain Girl song of hers sixteen times and was still playing it when Billingsley left.'

Frozen Assets. Chapter 8.I