Heard on The Judges: variant of slang phrase

[Wilson Gray]

Mid-twenty-ish, black, male ex-con (or is that "ex-offender"?):

"... from the gitty-up."

-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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 -Sam'l Clemens

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