Part 5: Get Some Gone

The Promise

Nashville Public Radio

Society & Culture

4.9 • 777 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

There is a saying in Nashville’s James Cayce Homes: “Get some gone.” Three simple words that describe the urge, the mission, to move out, to get away from the city’s oldest public housing project. Tonya Shannon grew up in Cayce. And she was determined to get out. So at 18 years old, she got some gone. But leaving the place is rarely a clean break. And with her mother still at Cayce, she lives with complicated thoughts about its future and the people she left behind.

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0:00.0	A quick note before we begin, this episode includes descriptions of violence.
0:06.2	I mean, half of us can't, we can't afford to move up out of the hill.
0:11.7	Get some gong.
0:14.9	I already said, get some gong.
0:16.9	You got some gong?
0:17.6	Yeah, I got some gone.
0:18.9	I used to live on Doo Street, but I had to get some gone.
0:22.6	It mean get somewhere.
0:24.6	Bye.
0:25.6	See ya.
0:26.6	Get some gone.
0:28.6	Get some gum.
0:29.6	Get some gum?
0:30.6	Get some gum.
0:31.6	There's got to be a southern thing, right?
0:33.6	It is.
0:34.6	Because if you said that in Brooklyn, we looked at you.
0:36.6	Get some gone.
0:38.3	That's pretty much all it means is move quickly.
0:41.3	Real quick.
0:42.3	Move.
0:43.3	You start hearing them shots, get some gone.
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