05/02/2012 Celtic Connections


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Fruitmarket in Glasgow, and some of our highlights of Celtic

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It's another fantastic year - this is the 19th festival that features

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300 events over 18 days and across 20 different venues. It's an

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eclectic mix of world, Celtic, protest songs, country, gospel and

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lots more. Here's a taste of what's to come tonight. # You're not here

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# But you're never too far from my heart...

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# Rumo ao Sul # Sem amor...

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# Time of pilgrims # Air of a strange heaven...

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# You couldn't have come at a better time

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# You couldn't have come at a better time...

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# Hey, little darling # I've been calling

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# But you don't seem to hear... # CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Three-times

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winners of Radio 2's Folk Award for Best Band, Scottish three-piece Lau

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have an amazing pedigree, garnered from working with the likes of

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Blazin' Fiddles, Roddy Woomble and Joan Baez. One of the busiest bands

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at the festival this year, they'll be performing with Cream legend

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Jack Bruce, as well as the Northern Sinfonia. We're so pleased they

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have the time to join us at the Old # I never though life would be easy

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# I was lately falling apart # Then you came and then you made

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# Lean that much harder on my heart # Aren't you just ravenous for a

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midnight feast? # Old drooling moon is shining down

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on us # At the end of the street

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# I'm damned if I do, my love # Damned if I don't, my sweet

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# Dare I declare # This morning love turned evening

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# Well, we went down the road # We got soaked in moonlight

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# Hedged in roses on either side # And all that was in our ears

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# Was the sound of the ocean # And in the distance was an indigo

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# Aren't you just ravenous for a midnight feast?

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# Old drooling moon is shining down on us

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# At the end of the street # I'm damned if I do, my love

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# Damned if I don't, my sweet # Dare I declare

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# This morning love turned evening # So come away with me

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# Or leave me # Come nearer to me

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# Or go away # Just the sound of your breathing

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# A feeling worth feeling # Come a summer's evening and the

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break of day # Aren't you just ravenous for a

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midnight feast? # Old drooling moon is shining down

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on us # At the end of the street

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# I'm damned if I do, my love # Damned if I don't, my sweet

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# Dare I declare # This morning love turned evening

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deep # I'm damned if I do, my love

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# Damned if I don't, my sweet # I do declare

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Perhaps reflecting the times we live in,

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there's a strong political theme running through this year's

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festival. Woody 100 celebrates the music of dust-bowl troubadour Woody

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Guthrie, and one of the artists appearing at that concert is also

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with us tonight. It's our pleasure to welcome to the Old Fruitmarket

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the granddaughter of Woody Guthrie - and appearing tonight with her

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husband, Johnny Irion - Sarah Lee # It's a sunny Saturday

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# People having fun # I hear 'em out on the front porch

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# Laughing at the crazy things that they've done

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# An old lawnmower's cranking up # The branches scrape the windows

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# You know I think about love, babe # Every time that the wind blows so

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hard # You're not here

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# But you're never too far from my # All our crazy mistakes

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# Yes, we've had our share # But I dropped them off at baggage

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claim # They're going round on a carousel

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# Gonna renovate # This old house of love

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# There's no damage here # You know we can't rise above

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# It's just a few thoughts I had # On my way to the farm

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# You're not here # But you're never too far from my

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heart # I'd rather have you under the

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moon # Than anything under the sun

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# And I strip myself of that cowgirl holster

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# And all of my loaded questions # Well, it's give and take

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# All throughout the years # It won't be long till you find

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yourself # In an ocean of salty tears

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# But that lighthouse will guide # Wherever you are

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# You're not here # But you're never too far from my

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heart # You're not here

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# Oooh-oooh You're not here # Oooh-oooh

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# You're not here # But you're never too far from my

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heart # You're never too far

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# You're never too far. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Thank you

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Our next act counts Prince and Mick Jagger among her fans. She's one of

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the world's finest exponents of Fado singing - Portugal's answer to

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the blues. In common with Celtic traditions, Fado - which means

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"fate" or "destiny" - is often about love and loss. So get ready

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to be heartbroken by Ana Moura. APPLAUSE # Estou na estrada de

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volta p'ra onde # Eu ja nao quero ir

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# No escritorio esta tarde foi tudo # P'ra me deprimir

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# A buzina apressada de um carro # Que me quer passar

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# Na portagem um rosto indiferente # Diz-me p'ra pagar

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# Rumo ao Sul # Sem amor

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# Devagar # O meu sonho faz-se ao mar

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# Sem amor # Rumo ao Sul

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# Volto as costas as luzes brilhantes

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# Da cidade mae # Sou a sombra impiedosa do apego

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# A quem ja nao se tem # Sei que ao fim desta estrada ha

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uma casa # Que suponho ter

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# E a vontade indomavel que teima # Em me querer perder

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# Rumo ao Sul # Sem amor

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# Devagar # O meu sonho faz-se ao mar

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# Sem amor # Rumo ao Sul

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# Rumo ao Sul # Sem amor

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# Devagar # O meu sonho faz-se ao mar

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# Sem amor # Rumo ao Sul

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# O meu ceu perdeu # O azul. #

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE eltic Connections may have a diverse

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range of concerts on offer, but its roots are based in traditional

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music a bit like this next band - a massively energetic supergroup who

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describe themselves as a modern melting pot of musical influences

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds

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from all around Scotland and beyond. One of the sell-out shows at this

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year's festival is named after a song title, A Song For Ireland.

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Recorded at Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall, here's a flavour of this

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stand-out event, celebrating the best of Irish music and song.

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# Where is this place we've come # We don't know what to say.

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# We long to see each other # And are frightened of that day

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# You met me in a barren place # You walked me to the hill

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# We were so good for each other then

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# I know we could be still # You couldn't have come at a

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better time # You couldn't have come at a

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better time # You couldn't have come at a

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better time # Not if you tried, oh, no

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# Not if you tried. Oh, no # You have 500 questions

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# Between you and me # If you look into my eyes, my love

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# Tell me what you see # Is it something you're not sure

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# Is it something true and fine? # Or is it just another case of the

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right thing at the wrong time? # No, wait, baby

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# You couldn't have come at a better time

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# You couldn't have come at a better time

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# You couldn't have come at a better time

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# Since we were first together # By the lakeside sky so blue

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# We were so good for each other # Me and you and me and you

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# And me and you and me and you # You couldn't have come at a

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better time # You couldn't have come at a

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better time # You couldn't have come at a

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better time # Not if you tried, oh, no

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# You couldn't have come at a better time

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# You couldn't have come at a better time

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# You couldn't have come at a better time

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# Not if you tried, oh, no # My young love said to me

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# My mother won't mind # And my father won't slight you

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# For your lack of kind # And she stepped away from me

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# And this she did say # It will not be long, love

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# 'til our wedding day # She stepped away from me

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# And she moved through the fair # And fondly I watched her

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# Move here and move there # And she turned her way homeward

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# With one star awake # As the swan in the evening

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# The people they say # No two e'er were wed

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# But one has a sorrow # That never was said

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# And she smiled as she passed me # With her goods and her gear

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# And that was the last # That I saw of my dear

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# Last night she came to me # My true love came in

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# And she came in so easy # Her feet made no din

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# And she laid her hands on me # And this she did say

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# It will not be long, love # Oh...

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No, it won't be long # My love # No, it won't be long # My love # No, it

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# No, it won't be long, my love. # Seattle is, perhaps, more famous

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for coffee shops than country music stars, but this performer, who

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hails from that city, has been collecting some rave reviews and

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respect from country music's heartland and beyond. Her

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influences range from Woody Guthrie to Leadbelly via the Beatles and

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Bruce Springsteen. This is Zoe Muth # Hey, little darlin', I've been

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callin' # But you don't seem to hear

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# I've been waitin' # I've been hesitatin'

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# But I have waited my share # I've been hot and I've been cold

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# Been carrying a heavy load # Trying to lift myself above this

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old life # If I'm here or if I'm there

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# I can tell that you don't care # Cause you've got a heart like a

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bucket full of ice # Hey, little darlin', I've been

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callin' # But you don't seem to hear

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# I've been waitin' # I've been hesitatin'

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# Well the old folks back home # They wonder why I roam

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# And chase the crooked and cold- hearted men like you

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# They tried to teach me well # But you have cast some kind of

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spell # And I am bound to fall until my

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days are through # And I tell myself no

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# But you know in the end I'll always go

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# Back down to the bar to look for # Then I'm right back where I

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started # All alone and broken-hearted

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# Hey, what's a girl like me supposed to do?

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# Then you ask me how I've been # I said I came out on top

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# But you could hardly call it winnin'

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# With that hard look in your eyes # Well, I know now

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# It ain't no disguise # No, it ain't no disguise

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# Hey, little darlin', I've been callin'

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# But you don't seem to hear # I've been waitin'

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# I've been hesitatin' # But I have waited my share

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# Yes, I have waited my share. Celtic Connections embraces all

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kinds of music from all over the world, and in recent years gospel

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has played a major part in the repertoire of the festival. I'm on

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the stage of Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall to meet a man who's

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been making music for the last 50 years. He's been described as

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giving the song the fullness of his heart and soul every time. He's

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just finished the sound check and he's going to perform for us in a

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couple of minutes' time. It's my pleasure to give a warm Celtic

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Connections welcome to Aaron Neville. First of all, I should say

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to you, a very happy birthday, sir. Thanks a lot. You're still working

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on your birthday, you've worked for a good bit of your life. Are you

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not close to putting your feet up yet? No, not at all. I've got a

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Let's talk about some of your success that brings you most

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pleasure, because you've had a whole career of doing things on

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your own, also a lot of stuff doing things with the brothers. Yeah.

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then also these amazing kind of little tricks, duets with people

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like Linda Ronstadt and so on. Looking back on it, Aaron, what are

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the things that bring you the most happiness? You know, all of it -

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just to be able to do it, just to be able to sing. The duets were all

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special, with Linda Ronstadt, Tricia Yearwood. You know, and the

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stuff I done with my brothers - it's all been special, you know?

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And I'm glad to still be around doing it. You know, you've gone

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through amazing times. The music business has changed hugely. I

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guess you come from a time when black musicians were... ..ripped

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off, really. Yeah. Through to now, the internet and so on. You must

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have the long view on it. Well, it gives you something to sing about,

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you know? It gives you some blues. Yeah, but I mean, do you think it's

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got better or got worse for a musician like yourself? The way it

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is, that's not better for nobody. The music business has gone south.

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Yeah. I can't even call it the music business no more, really.

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You've just got to go for what you know and do what you like to do and

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roll with the punches. Just make sure you swing back every once in a

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while. Do you sometimes feel glad that you survived all these

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different obstacles that are put in your way? No doubt. I wrote a song

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a couple of years back called It Took Who I Was And Where I Come

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From To Make Me Who I Am, so no regrets. Absolutely. One other

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thing I was going to ask you about was, this album is a celebration of

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gospel music. You are a very devout Catholic. Yeah. Do the Catholic

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churches in the South have the same style of music as the Protestant

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churches? Because we know all about the gospel churches in the South,

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but I wasn't aware that the music crossed over both sides as much.

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When I was growing up it wasn't. It was strictly... That's where I

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learned Ave Maria. I never knew the words but it was always a soothing,

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just... It soothed me, you know? And lower times in my life, I

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remember sitting in the gutter one time, I didn't know what I wanted

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to do and Ave Maria came into my mind, I sang it to myself, and it

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made everything all right, you know? But later, the Catholic

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churches, they have Catholic Baptists now. Right. They rock, you

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know. And it's fun? Yeah, you know. That's wonderful. You've kindly

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agreed to do a song for us, and we've been joined by Michael Goods

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on the piano. You're going to do I Am A Pilgrim. This is Aaron Neville.

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# I am a pilgrim and a stranger # Travellin' through this worrisome

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land # I got a home built in that yonder

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city, good Lord # And it's not, not made by hand

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# I got a mother, a sister, and a father

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# Done gone on now to the other shore

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# And I'm determined to go and see them, good Lord

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# And to be with them forever more # When I go down to the River of

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Jordan # Just to bathe my, my weary soul

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# If I can just touch the hem of His garment, good Lord

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# And when He lays me down for the last time

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# With His hard hand resting on my breast

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# I don't want none of that weepin' and cryin' over me

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# 'Cause you know that I'm gone to rest

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# Yes, I am a pilgrim and a stranger

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# Travellin' through this worrisome land

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# And I got a home built in that yonder city, good Lord

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# Havia a solidao da prece no olhar triste

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# Como se os seus olhos fossem as portas do pranto

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# Sinal da cruz que persiste, os dedos contra o quebranto

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# E os buzios que a velha lancava sobre um velho manto

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# A espreita esta um grande amor mas guarda segredo

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# Vazio tens o teu coracao na ponta do medo

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# Ve como os buzios cairam virados p'ra norte

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# Pois eu vou mexer o destino, vou mudar-te a sorte

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# Pois eu vou mexer o destino, vou mudar-te a sorte

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# Havia um desespero intenso na sua # O quarto cheirava a incenso, mais

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uns quantos pos # A velha agitava o lenco, dobrou-o,

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deu-lhe dois nos # E o seu padre santo falou usando-

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lhe a voz # A espreita esta um grande amor

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mas guarda segredo # Vazio tens o teu coracao na ponta

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do medo # Ve como os buzios cairam virados

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p'ra norte # Pois eu vou mexer o destino, vou

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mudar-te a sorte # Pois eu vou mexer o destino, vou

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# A espreita esta um grande amor mas guarda segredo

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# Vazio tens o teu coracao na ponta do medo

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# Ve como os buzios cairam virados p'ra norte

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# Pois eu vou mexer o destino, vou mudar-te a sorte

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# Pois eu vou mexer o destino, vou mudar-te a sorte

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# Pois eu vou mexer o destino, vou mudar-te a sorte

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# Pois eu vou mexer o destino, vou Time now for one more from Lau, and

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a song called Ghosts, written by the band's vocalist, Kris Drever.

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And they are joined on stage by a very special guest, the wonderful

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Eddi Reader. # We say we're not # A generation ago

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# The same on the same ships, we # We came seeking protection

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# Away from the strife # Away from the struggles and the

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hardships of life # I'm not an incomer

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# My parents were ghosts # Sir, I was born here

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# There's ghosts on the motorway # The world is on fire

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# There's ghosts on the sandflats as the water gets higher and higher

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# There's ghosts in the brothels # Behind thick stony walls

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# There's ghosts and their children in prison foodhalls

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# I'm not an incomer # My parents were ghosts

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# Sir, I was born here # So where would I go?

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# I'm not an incomer # My parents were ghosts

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds

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# Sir, I was born here Thank you, Eddi. Sarah Lee Guthrie,

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a warm welcome to Scotland, and a warm welcome to Celtic Connections.

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Thank you. Is it your first time here? It is not, actually. I came

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in '99 with my dad. It was the first time I had left the country,

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and I had just started playing music. I was probably 19 years old,

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and we came over to Celtic Connections. Did you have a good

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time? I had an amazing time, yeah. I was infected, actually, by music.

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Really? Well, I hadn't really been exposed to Celtic music before. I

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was a punk rock chick, I was a metal head, I was everything else.

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So, you know, bluegrass and all kinds of stuff. But I didn't have

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the Celtic experience until here. So your dad is Arlo Guthrie, whom

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we know and love very well, and your grandfather was Woody Guthrie,

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an amazing songwriter. And I'm thinking that, because of the times

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that we are going through, if we look across the world, look across

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to the States, especially over the last few months, down in London,

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the protests and so on, it's all coming back again as well, isn't

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it? There's a real sense in which that protest movement which Woody

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was very much at the forefront of is beginning to come back. Yeah,

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yeah. It's about time. I think we got out there for a while. You know,

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we weren't sure what fights to fight and we weren't sure what

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needed to happen, and it's really nice to see people on the streets

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today. And then we're wondering, what songs are we going to sing out

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here on the streets? And we look to Woody Guthrie for those. Yeah,

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which must be incredibly gratifying. Let's talk about this legacy of

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stuff that he never got round to finishing. Sure, yeah. Now, you

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have taken some of your grandfather's lyrics and set them

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to new melodies, is this correct? Yeah. Well, I tried to steal the

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melodies just like he would. THEY LAUGH Good!

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Always steal the best, though! You're going to perform There'll Be

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No Church Tonight from the Woody Guthrie archive. Tell us a little

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bit about that song, Sarah Lee. I am. It's a song that Johnny and I

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find the lyrics to. They were just sitting there at the house, and we

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picked up this pile of papers about 40-deep and started to leaf through

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them and came across There'll Be No Church Tonight, in which we just

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decided to start singing. And I said, "Johnny, you have to come

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over here, you have to check this out." It was actually hilarious.

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And so we started to sing the same melody, started to sing it off the

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page. It was like it was meant to be. So we took that to the stage

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the very next day, actually. that's lovely - a granddaughter

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writing a song with her deceased grandfather. There's something

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amazing about that. It was almost like I was sitting down having tea

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with him. You know, I could feel him right there, as if we were

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doing it together. # Preacher Bill come to the house

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# One Sunday bright and fine # To fill his belly with sweet

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potatoes # Biscuits, chicken and wine

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# He took our Nelly behind the barn # And carried on a sight

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# I heard him whisper in her ear # There'll be no church tonight

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# There'll be no church tonight, my dear

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# There'll be no church tonight # One more kiss from your red, red

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lips # There'll be no church tonight

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# While peeking through that knot- hole

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# I seen him take her hand # Put his head upon her bosom

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# And called it the promised land # Mountains of life and glory's

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hills # He touched her leg so light

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# He gasped for air and said a prayer

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# There'll be no church tonight. # All right, let's hear you now.

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# There'll be no church tonight, my dear

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# There'll be no church tonight # One more kiss from your red, red

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lips # There'll be no church tonight

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# She laid on a pile of hay # And gently closed her eyes

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# Said the words from the 23rd psalm

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# To the good Lord in the skies # What I'd seen through that knot-

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hole # I cannot sing or write

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# But now I know the reason why # There'll be no church tonight

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# There'll be no church tonight, my dear

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# There'll be no church tonight # One more kiss from your red, red

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lips # There'll be no church tonight

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# There'll be no church tonight, my dear

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# There'll be no church tonight # One more kiss from your red, red

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lips Well, that's about all we have time

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for tonight. There's plenty more on the website

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