Country at the BBC

# Like them rhinestone cowboys

# Ridin' out on a horse in a star-spangled rodeo

# The rhinestone cowboys

# Ridin' out on a horse in a star-spangled rodeo

# The rhinestone cowboys... #

Good evening.

I was born in Chickasaw County, on my grandparents' farm in Mississippi.

We lived about 16 miles outside the nearest town.

I can remember working real hard all week

and doing everything my papa told me to,

so that on Saturday I could ask him...

# Papa, won't you let me go to town with you?

# Papa, I'm feeling so down and blue

# You just gotta come around Please do

# Papa, won't you let me go to town with you?

# There's a blue dress at Dindy's I'd give the world to see again

# I need some hand lotion and some powder from the five and ten

# I'll buy us some chocolate and I'll make you a pretty pie

# If you don't let me go I'll just die

# Papa, won't you let me go to town with you?

# Papa, I'm feeling so down and blue

# You just gotta come around Please do

# Papa, won't you let me go to town with you?

# I gotta pick up a pattern Aunt Nora's making me a dress

# I scrubbed it this morning What d'ya mean this floor's a mess?

# I done everything you said and then some ya didn't say to do

# You just gotta take me with you

# Papa, won't you let me go to town with you?

# Papa, I'm feeling so down and blue

# You just gotta come around Please do

# Papa, won't you let me go to town with you?

# Looky here, Papa I found your other Sunday shoe

# I shined it and shined it till it looks all brand spankin' new

# Seems like all year I've been waiting for today

# If you let me come I won't get in your way

# Papa, won't you let me go to town with you?

# Papa, I'm feeling so down and blue

# You just gotta come around Please do

# Papa, won't you let me go to town with you? #

Ladies and gentlemen, it's my great pleasure to say welcome to Tammy Wynette.

APPLAUSE

# Sometimes, it's hard to be a woman

# Giving all your love to just one man

# You'll have bad times

# And he'll have good times

# Doing things that you don't understand

# But if you love him You'll forgive him

# Even though he's hard to understand

# And if you love him

# Oh, be proud of him

# Cos after all, he's just a man

# Stand by your man

# Give him two arms to cling to

# And something warm to come to

# When night are cold and lonely

# Stand by your man

# And show the world you love him

# Keep giving all the love you can

# Stand by your man

# Stand by your man

# And show the world you love him

# Keep giving all the love you can

# Stand by your man. #

APPLAUSE

# Oh, the crystal chandeliers light up the paintings on your wall

# The marble statuettes are standing stately in the hall

# But will the timely crowd that has you laughing loud help dry your tears

# When the new wears off of your crystal chandeliers?

# I never did fit in too well with folks you knew

# And it's plain to see that the likes of me don't fit with you

# So you traded me for the gaiety of the well-to-do

# And you turned away from the love I offered you

# Oh, the crystal chandeliers light up the paintings on your wall

# The marble statuettes are standing stately in the hall

# But will the timely crowd that has you laughing loud help dry your tears

# When the new wears off of your crystal chandeliers?

# I see your picture in the news 'most every day

# You're the chosen girl of the social world, so all the stories say

# But a paper smile only lasts a while, then it fades away

# And the love we knew will come home to you some day

# Oh, the crystal chandeliers light up the paintings on your wall

# The marble statuettes are standing stately in the hall

# But will the timely crowd that has you laughing loud help dry your tears

# When the new wears off of your crystal chandeliers? #

# When the new wears off of your crystal chandeliers. #

APPLAUSE

# Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene

# I'm begging of you Please don't take my man

# Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene

# Please don't take him Just because you can

# Your beauty is beyond compare With flaming locks of auburn hair

# With ivory skin and eyes of emerald green

# Your smile is like a breath of spring

# Your voice is soft like summer rain

# And I cannot compete with you, Jolene

# He talks about you in his sleep There's nothing I can do to keep

# From crying when he calls your name, Jolene

# And I can easily understand

# How you could easily take my man

# But you don't know what he means to me, Jolene

# Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene

# I'm begging of you Please don't take my man

# Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene

# Please don't take him Just because you can

# You could have your choice of men But I could never love again

# He's the only one for me, Jolene

# I had to have this talk with you My happiness depends on you

# And whatever you decide to do, Jolene

# Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene

# I'm begging of you Please don't take my man

# Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene

# Please don't take him Even though you can

# Jolene, Jolene

# I mean, that's key, Jolene. #

Let's sit back and enjoy the beautiful Emmylou and Together Again.

# Together again

# My tears have stopped falling

# The long lonely nights

# Are now at an end

# The key to my heart

# You hold in your hand

# And nothing else matters

# Cos we're together again

# Together again

# The grey skies all gone

# You're back in my arms

# Now, where you belong

# The love that we knew

# Is living again

# And nothing else matters

# Cos we're together again

# Together again

# My tears have stopped falling

# The long lonely nights

# Are now at an end

# The love that we knew

# Is living again

# And nothing else matters

# Cos we're together again

# No, nothing else matters

# Cos we're together again. #

APPLAUSE

# Hey, did you happen to see the most beautiful girl in the world?

# And if you did Was she crying, crying?

# Hey, if you happen to see the most beautiful girl that walked out on me

# Tell her I'm sorry

# Tell her I need my baby

# Oh, won't you tell her That I love her

# I woke up this morning Realised what I had done

# I stood alone in the cold grey dawn

# I know I'd lost my morning sun

# I lost my head and I said some things

# Now come the heartaches that morning brings

# I know I'm wrong but I couldn't see

# I let my world slip away from me

# So, hey, did you happen to see the most beautiful girl in the world?

# And if you did Was she crying, crying?

# Hey, if you happen to see the most beautiful girl that walked out on me

# Tell her I'm sorry

# Tell her I need my baby

# Oh, won't you tell her That I love her

# If you happen to see the most beautiful girl that walked out on me

# Tell her I'm sorry

# Tell her I need my baby

# Oh, won't you tell her That I love her. #

Straight from Nashville, can we please welcome Mr Chet Atkins!

APPLAUSE

APPLAUSE

# Busted flat in Baton Rouge

# Heading for the train

# Feeling nearly faded as my jeans

# Bobby thumbed the diesel down

# Just before it rained

# Took us all away to New Orleans

# I took my harpoon out of my dirty red bandana

# And was blowing sad while Bobby sang the blues

# With them windshield wipers slapping time

# And Bobby clapping hands

# We finally sang up every song that driver knew

# Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose

# Nothing ain't worth nothing But it's free

# Feeling good was easy, Lord When Bobby sang the blues

# Feeling good was good enough for me

# Good enough for me and Bobby McGee

# From the coalmines of Kentucky to the California sun

# Bobby shared the secrets of my soul

# Standing right beside me, Lord Through everything I've done

# Every night he kept me from the cold

# Then somewhere near Salinas, Lord I let it slip away

# Looking for the home I hope she'll find

# And I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday

# Holding Bobby's body close to mine

# Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose

# Nothing ain't worth nothing But it's free

# Feeling good was easy, Lord When Bobby sang the blues

# But it damn was good enough for me

# Good enough for me and Bobby McGee

# Sing it one more time

# La-la, la-la la, la, la

# La-la, la-la, la

# La-la, la-la, me and Bobby McGee. #

APPLAUSE

# I've held it all inward The Lord knows I've tried

# It's an awful waiting In a country boy's life

# To look in the mirror In total surprise

# At the hair on your shoulders And the age in your eyes

# Amanda, light of my life

# Fate should have made you A gentleman's wife

# Amanda, light of my life

# Fate should have made you A gentleman's wife

# There's a measure people don't understand

# The pleasures of life in a hillbilly band

# I got my first guitar when I was 14

# Now I'm crowding 30 and still wearing jeans

# Amanda, light of my life

# Fate should have made you A gentleman's wife

# Amanda, light of my life

# Fate should have made you A gentleman's wife

# Amanda, light of my life

# Fate should have made you A gentleman's wife

# Amanda, light of my life

# Fate should have made you A gentleman's wife. #

APPLAUSE

This is also a true story from my childhood.

# Back through the years I go wandering once again

# Back to the seasons of my youth

# And I recall a box of rags that someone gave us

# And how my momma put the rags to use

# There were rags of many colours

# Every piece was small

# And I didn't have a coat

# And it was way down in the fall

# Momma sewed the rags together

# Sewin' every piece with love

# She made my coat of many colours That I was so proud of

# And while she sewed She told a story

# From the Bible she had read

# About a coat of many colours Joseph wore and then she said

# I hope this coat will bring you Good luck and happiness

# And I just couldn't wait to wear it

# And Momma blessed it with a kiss

# My coat of many colours That my momma made for me

# Made only from rags But I wore it so proudly

# Although we had no money I was rich as I could be

# In my coat of many colours Momma made for me

# So with patches on my britches Holes in both my shoes

# In my coat of many colours I hurried off to school

# Just to find the others laughing And making fun of me

# In my coat of many colours That Momma made for me

# And, oh, I couldn't understand that Cos I thought I was rich

# And then I told them of the love My momma sewed in every stitch

# And I told them all the story Momma told me while she sewed

# And why my coat of many colours

# Was worth more than all their clothes

# But they didn't understand it And I tried to make them see

# One is only poor Only if you choose to be

# It is true we had no money But I was rich as I could be

# In my coat of many colours Momma made for me

# Made just for me. #

APPLAUSE

APPLAUSE

Thank you very much.

OK, here we have it.

The song that brought us all together in the first place.

I see the excitement. You recognise it from just that much of it?

# In a bar in Toledo Across from the depot

# On a bar stool She took off her ring

# I thought I'd get closer So I walked on over

# I sat down and asked her her name

# When the drinks finally hit her She said I'm no quitter

# But I finally quit living on dreams

# I'm hungry for laughter Here ever after

# I'm after whatever the other life brings

# In the mirror I saw him I closely watched him

# I thought how he looked out of place

# He came to the woman who sat there beside me

# He had a strange look on his face

# His big hands were calloused He looked like a mountain

# For a minute, I thought I was dead

# But he started shaking His big heart was breaking

# He turned to the woman and said

# You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille

# With four hungry children and a crop in the field

# I've had some bad times Lived through some sad times

# But this time your hurting won't heal

# You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille

# After he left us I ordered more whisky

# I thought how she'd made him look small

# From the lights of the bar room to a rented hotel room

# We walked without talking at all

# Now she was a beauty But when she came to me

# She must have thought I'd lost my mind

# Cos I couldn't hold her The words that he told her

# Kept coming back time after time

# You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille

# With four hungry children and a crop in the field

# I've had some bad times Lived through some sad times

# But this time your hurting won't heal

# You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille.... #

OK, let's really sing it out now!

# You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille

# With four hungry children and a crop in the fields... #

Come on, this is a beer drinking song! I can't hear you!

# I've had some bad times Lived through some sad times

# This time your hurting won't heal

# You picked a fine time... #

OK, a big finish. Everybody really loud!

# You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille. #

APPLAUSE

Thank you.

APPLAUSE

# Don't know when I've been so blue

# Don't know what's come over you

# You've found someone new

# And don't it make my brown eyes blue

# I'll be fine when you're gone

# I'll just cry all night long

# Say it isn't true

# And don't it make my brown eyes blue

# Tell me no secrets Tell me some lies

# Give me no reasons, give me alibis

# Tell me you love me and don't let me cry

# Say anything, but don't say goodbye

# I didn't mean to treat you bad

# Didn't know just what I had

# But honey, now I do

# And don't it make my brown eyes

# Don't it make my brown eyes

# Don't it make my brown eyes blue

# Ooh, ooh

# Don't it make my brown eyes

# Don't it make my brown eyes

# Don't it make my brown eyes blue. #

APPLAUSE

Thank you, Val.

# I've been walking these streets so long

# Just singing the same old song

# I know every crack in the dirty sidewalks of Broadway

# Where hustle's the name of the game

# And nice guys get washed away

# Like the snow and the rain

# And don't you now there's been a load of compromising

# On the road to my horizon

# But you see, I want to be where the light is shining on me

# Like a rhinestone cowboy

# Riding out on a horse in a star-spangled rodeo

# Like a rhinestone cowboy

# Getting cards and letters from people I don't even know

# Yes, and offers coming over the phone

# Well, I really don't mind the rain

# And a smile can hide all the pain

# But you're down when you're riding that train

# That's taking the long way

# But you can dream of the things you'll do

# With a subway token

# Or a dollar tucked inside your shoe

# There is a load of compromisin'

# On any road to your horizon

# So just why not be where the light is shining on thee

# Like them rhinestone cowboys

# Riding out on a horse in a star-spangled rodeo

# The rhinestone cowboys

# Gettin' cards and letters from people I don't even know

# And offers comin' over the phone

# One more time, fella.

# Just like them rhinestone cowboys and cowgirls. #

APPLAUSE

Thank you.

Ladies and gentlemen, will you welcome now Miss Billie Jo Spears.

APPLAUSE

# I've never seen the inside of a barroom

# Or listened to a jukebox all night long

# But I see these are the things that bring you pleasure

# So I'm gonna make some changes in our home

# Well I've heard it said if you can't beat 'em, join 'em

# And if that's the way you want it, may it be

# I'll change if it takes that to make you happy

# From now on you're gonna see a different me

# Because your good girl's gonna go bad

# I'm gonna be the swingingest swinger you've ever had

# If you like them painted up, powdered up

# Then you ought to be glad

# Cos your good girl's gonna go bad

# I'll even learn to like the taste of whisky

# In fact, you'll hardly recognise your wife

# I'll buy some brand-new clothes and dress up fancy

# For my journey to the wilder side of life

# Because your good girl's gonna go bad

# I'm gonna be the swingingest swinger you've ever had

# If you like them painted up, powdered up

# Then you ought to be glad

# Cos your good girl's gonna go bad

# Yeah, your good girl's gonna go bad

# I'm gonna be the swingingest swinger you've ever had

# If you like them painted up, powdered up

# Then you ought to be glad

# Cos your good girl's gonna go bad. #

APPLAUSE Thank you.

I'm delighted to welcome a gentleman who's flown in

from America to be with us tonight and is doing a series of concerts

in this country. And he's one of the great figures of American music.

I'm delighted to welcome - with his latest song,

called Always On My Mind - the great Willie Nelson.

APPLAUSE

# Maybe I didn't love you

# Quite as often as I could have

# Maybe I didn't treat you

# Quite as good as I should have

# If I made you feel second best

# Girl, I'm sorry I was blind

# But you were always on my mind

# You were always on my mind

# Maybe I didn't hold you

# All those lonely, lonely times

# I guess I never told you

# That I'm so happy that you're mine

# Little things I should have said and done

# I just never took the time

# You were always on my mind

# You were always on my mind

# Tell me

# Tell me that your sweet love hasn't died

# And give me

# Give me one more chance

# To keep you satisfied

# I'll keep you satisfied

# Maybe I didn't love you

# Quite as often as I could have

# Maybe I didn't treat you

# Quite as good as I should have

# Little things I should have said and done

# I just never took the time

# But you were always on my mind

# You were always on my mind

# You were always on my mind

# You were always on my mind. #

APPLAUSE

I grew up down in Georgia, below Atlanta.

Down there, off of Highway 5 was this little river called the Dog River.

I wrote this little song about it.

# Well, I first kissed you on a hollow log

# Down by the river they call the Dog

# We fell in love and we vowed that day

# Like the flow of the river Our love won't change

# Well, we married that spring And we built a house

# On the banks of the river Where the rock juts out

# The river's still here But you're long gone

# You left me and the river here all alone

# I got the Dog River blues

# I've walked holes in both my shoes

# Lord, I still got the river But I ain't got you

# I got the Dog River blues

# Well, the rain came down and the river rose up

# Filled up the cab on my pickup truck

# It came in the house and down the hall

# And washed your picture right off the wall

# I got the Dog River blues

# I've walked holes in both my shoes

# Now I still got the river But I ain't got you

# I got the Dog River blues

# Well, my heart still yearns And the river still rolls

# I pray someday It'll bring you home

# If you change your mind Honey, I'll be here

# Waiting on the banks of that ol' Dog River

# I got the Dog River blues.

# I've walked holes in both my shoes

# Lord, I still got the river But I ain't got you

# I got the Dog River blues

# Yeah, I still got the river But I ain't got you

# I got the Dog River blues. #

Please welcome the man that really needs little introduction, Mr Johnny Cash.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# I hear the train a-comin'

# It's rolling round the bend

# And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when

# I'm stuck in Folsom Prison, and time keeps draggin' on

# But that train keeps a-rollin' on down to San Antone

# When I was just a baby

# My mama told me, Son

# Always be a good boy Don't ever play with guns

# But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die

# When I hear that whistle blowing

# I hang my head and cry... #

Whoa!

# I bet there's rich folks eating in a fancy dining car

# They're probably drinking coffee and smoking big cigars

# Well, I know I had it coming

# I know I can't be free

# But those people keep a-movin'

# And that's what tortures me

# Well, if they freed me from this prison

# If that railroad train was mine

# I bet I'd move it on a little farther down the line

# Far from Folsom Prison

# That's where I want to stay

# And I'd let that lonesome whistle blow my blues away. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

We've got the biggest country star in the history of all time right here. Garth Brooks.

# We call them cool

# Those hearts that have no scars to show

# The ones that never do let go

# And risk the tables being turned

# We call them fools who have to dance within the flame

# Who chance the sorrow and the shame

# That always comes with getting burned

# But you've got to be tough when consumed by desire

# Cos it's not enough just to stand outside the fire

# We call them strong

# Those who can face this world alone

# Who seem to get by on their own

# Those who will never take the fall

# We call them weak

# Who are unable to resist the slightest chance love might exist

# And for that forsake it all

# They're so hell-bent on giving Walking a wire

# Convinced it's not living if you stand outside the fire

# Standing outside the fire

# Standing outside the fire

# Life is not tried

# It is merely survived if you're standing outside the fire

# There's this love that is burning deep in my soul

# Constantly yearning to get out of control

# Wanting to fly higher and higher

# I can't abide standing outside the fire

# Standing outside the fire

# Standing outside the fire

# Life is not tried

# It is merely survived if you're standing outside the fire

# Yeah!

# Standing outside the fire

# Standing outside the fire

# Life is not tried

# It is merely survived If you're standing outside the fire

# Standing outside the fire. #

The next guest I'm going to introduce you to is so talented she has been for 18 months now

the best-selling artist in America and with good reason. Please welcome Taylor Swift.

APPLAUSE

# We were both young when I first saw you

# I close my eyes and the flashback starts

# I'm standing there

# On a balcony in summer air

# See the lights See the party, the ball gowns

# See you make your way through the crowd and say hello

# Little did I know

# That you were Romeo You were throwing pebbles

# And my daddy said stay away from Juliet

# And I was crying on the staircase

# Begging you, please, don't go

# And I said

# Romeo, take me somewhere we can be alone

# I'll be waiting All there's left to do is run

# You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess

# It's a love story Baby, just say yes

# So I sneak out to the garden to see you

# We keep quiet cos we're dead if they knew

# So close your eyes

# Escape this town for a little while

# Oh-oh

# Cos you were Romeo I was a scarlet letter

# My daddy said stay away from Juliet

# But you were everything to me

# I was begging you, please, don't go

# And I said

# Romeo, take me somewhere we can be alone

# I'll be waiting All there's left to do is run

# You'll be the prince

# And I'll be the princess

# It's a love story Baby, just say yes

# Romeo, save me They try to tell me how to feel

# This love is difficult but it's real

# Don't be afraid We'll make it out of this mess

# It's a love story Baby, just say yes

# Oh-oh

# Ooh, whoa

# I got tired of waiting

# Wondering if you were ever coming around

# My faith in you is fading

# When I met you on the outskirts of town

# And I said, Romeo, save me

# I've been feeling so alone

# I keep waiting for you but you never come

# Is this in my head? I don't know what to think

# He knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring and said

# Marry me, Juliet You'll never have to be alone

# I love you and that's all I really know

# I talked to your dad Go pick out a white dress

# It's a love story Baby, just say...

# Oh, oh-oh-oh

# Oh-ohh

# Cos we were both young when I first saw you. #

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