10 Commandments Made Simple

Some people in the Southern USA have trouble with all the Thou shalt and Thou shalt not of the Ten Commandments in the King James Version [KJV] of The Bible. Folks just aren't used to talking in those terms. So, in Tennessee someone translated the language of the KJV into 'Jackson County' language [the common local language]. This is no joke; posted on one wall of a church in Gainesboro, Tennessee are the 10 commandments in the local dialect as follows:

I
Have jes' one God

II
Put nuthin' b'fore God

III
Watch yer mouth

IV
Git yerself to Sunday meetin' in church

V
Honor yer Ma & Pa

VI
No killin'

VII
No foolin' around with another fella's gal

VIII
Don't take what ain't yo's

IX
No tellin' lies or gossipin'

X
Don't be hankerin' fo' somebody's stuff

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Now that's plain an' simple. . .an' easy to remember, ain't it?