Only from the “The Heart, She Holler” show that was on Adult Swim.
Of course. I may not speak southern, but I can understand it.
I reckon that makes me pret near bilingual.
Dooley, slippin’ up the holler
Dooley, tryin’ to make a dollar
Dooley, give me a swaller
And I’ll pay you back somedayyy
Yup.
I’ve lived in the eastern KY sticks for most of my life, so yeah. I was well into adulthood before I realized that “holler” and “hollow” meant the same thing.
Nope, that hard-headed chile would get swatted on his/her “settin’ parts”, not sittin’ parts. And they wouldn’t be able to set in a cheer for the rest of the day either. I grew up in an east TN holler. My mom used yeller bell switches to whup me; my wife would call that bush a Forsythia, but she barely grew up below the Mason-Dixon line. Personally I’d just worsh the kid’s mouth out with soap.
Yes.
Dixieland Delight went to number one on both the U.S and Canadian country charts. It has the line:
So I think it would have been hard to make it through the 80s without hearing it.
I’m from rural Ohio so yes, that’s about how my grandparents would say it.
I wouldn’t get that “hollow” meant a valley. I’m north of 49. We call them gullies.
I know that “holler” and “hollow” mean the same thing, but I’m a little fuzzy on what a “hollow” is. I’m from northern Illinois. The part that’s all flat.
(True story: My first time camping in mountains near Asheville, NC, and I was totally lost. I couldn’t walk more than 100 feet without losing my bearings. Apparently I can only navigate in 2D.)
I have a picture somewhere of a sign hanging from a chain blocking a dirt path. The sign reads:
Ain’t nuthin in this holler worth dying over
I have in-laws (and outlaws) that live near Butcher Hollow, and have a holler of their own named after them.
This is where I first became aware of the pronunciation. The show’s title is a pun, meant both as a soap operatic-sounding phrase and as the name of the hollow in which it takes place. It’s run by a politically powerful (yet still over-the-top hillbilly) family whose last name is Heartshe, hence ‘The Heart, She Holler’.
Really funny show BTW, if you like Adult Swim stuff…
You’re blowing my mind. I knew that a holler was a wooded valley, and I knew that a hollow was also a valley, but I never knew that holler and hollow were the same word. I didn’t, until now, know that people were writing and reading “hollow” but saying it with an r.
I would know what you meant, from having watched Justified.
Oh, I’m sure some of them are writing it with an “r”, too! 
We had to have a tow truck come out to our home in eastern Kentucky one winter, and he radioed in to base that he had arrived at “the holler”.
I miss that place.
Yes, from reading.
Not something I’ve ever heard in the wild, but I’m familiar with it from TV, movies, songs, video games, books…