TANYA TUCKER
NICKEL DREAMS
Tanya Tucker with Patsi Bale Cox
Hyperion Books
New York 1997
(page 17)
It seems like I was always just missing getting into big
trouble.…
Mother was the disciplinarian up to a point, but when things spun
out of control she’d call Dad in on it.
(When she refused to go to bed) Dad would end up having to spank
me. I’d stomp off to bed mad. That should have been the end
of it, but not for me. I’d get up the next morning and say
something like: "You know I heard about a Daddy who killed
his little girl spanking her. You
wouldn’t want to do that, would you?" Or, "Daddy,
you know I heard about a man who got put in jail for whipping his
little girl. You wouldn’t want to go to jail, would
you?"
(page 18)
(After Tanya fooled her parents into thinking a dog had
attacked her)
"Mother and Dad thought it was about as funny as a heart
attack, and they whipped my butt for it."