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Country music's huge. The listening audience with radio is huge,

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the record-buying audience is huge.

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Country music is part of the life of the country music listener.

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I mean, they live it, they live the songs.

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I cannot tell you how many country fans have told me

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over the years, "When I was 20 years old I hated country music.

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"I didn't like it." No, you just hadn't lived enough.

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Songwriter rounds and shows,

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it's really a piece of country music history.

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You know, Bill was there. We called 'em guitar pulls.

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One guy'd play a song and you'd pull on his guitar...

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Pull his guitar away from him.

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And we'd just pass the guitar around and play.

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This is our first evening together, the three of us.

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Sat down in a room with our guitars going, "OK, what are you doing?

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"What do you want to do?"

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You're not going to play THAT chord, are you?

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I think a lot of fans like going from what they've heard

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in the finished product to hearing it raw, warts and all.

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Cue the applause.

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APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

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# You swear you've had enough

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# You're ready to give up

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# On that little lie they call love

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# Then out of the blue clear sky

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# Fallin' right into your hands

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# Like rain on the desert sand

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# It's the last thing you had planned

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# Then out of the blue clear sky

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# Here she comes a walkin' talkin' true love

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# Sayin' I been lookin' for you, love

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# Surprise, your new love has arrived

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# Out of the blue clear sky

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# Now ain't love a funny thing

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# One day you're givin' up the dream

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# And the next you're pickin' out a ring

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# Oh, out of the blue clear sky

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# Here she comes a walkin' talkin' true love

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# Sayin' I been lookin' for you, love

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# Surprise, your new love has arrived

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# Out of the blue clear

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# Here she comes a walkin' talkin' true love

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# Sayin' I been lookin' for you, love

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# Surprise, your new love has arrived

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# Out of the blue clear sky

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# Yeah, yeah

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# Ah-oo-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh. #

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-APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

-Thank you.

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Awesome.

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Well, we've brought some great country music

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and some great country songwriters and some great country artists,

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and I've got two of 'em sitting right over here.

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This guy here, his name is Clint Black, ladies and gentlemen.

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Please say hello.

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APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

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Thank you very much. We are thrilled to be here, and we, uh,

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we were playing here earlier before you got here, it wasn't the same.

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So we're glad you're here.

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LAUGHTER

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This song, it's what first brought me over here to London, back in 1989.

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# You were the first thing that I thought of

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# When I thought I drank you off my mind

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# When I get lost in the liquor

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# You're the only one I find

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# And if I did the things I oughta

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# You still would not be mine

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# So I'll keep a tight grip on the bottle

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# Gettin' loose and killin' time Help me, y'all

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# And this killin' time is killin' me

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# Drinking myself blind Thinkin' I won't see

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# That if I cross that line and they bury me

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# Well, I just might find I'll be killin' time for eternity

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# Well I don't know nothin' 'bout tomorrow

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# I've been lost in yesterday

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# I've spent all my life just dying

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# For a love that passed away

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# And if there's an end to all my sorrow

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# And this is the only price I'll pay

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# I'll be a happy man when I go

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# And I can't wait another day

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# This killin' time is killin' me

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# Drinking myself blind thinkin' I don't see

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# That if I cross that line and they bury me

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# Well, I just might find I'll be killin' time for eternity

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# I said, I just might find I'll be killin' time for eternity. #

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APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

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Clint Black.

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Thank you.

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This next gentleman and I first met at the Grand Ole Opry.

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He's been performing for 50 years now,

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and written hits for himself and so many others.

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Please welcome Mr Bill Anderson.

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APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

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Like a lot of people, I started out as a songwriter.

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And it's kind of funny because people will come up to you

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and ask you what you do, and you tell them you're a songwriter.

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And they say, "Well, what does that mean?

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"What do you mean you're a songwriter?"

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Well, first, you have to have a very vivid imagination.

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And then it just kind of falls into place. Here's what songwriters do.

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# We get to break out of prison

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# Make love to our best friend's wife

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# Have a beer for breakfast in Boston

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# And drink rum in Jamaica that night

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# We get to tell all our secrets

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# In a code no-one understands

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# We get to shoot all the bad guys

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# And never get blood on our hands

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# We're heroes, we're schemers We're drunks, we're dreamers

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# We're lovers and sometimes we're fighters

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# We're the students We're the teachers

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# We're the Devil We're the preachers

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# We're true love but mostly one-nighters

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# We're the songwriters

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# Half of the world thinks we're crazy

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# The other half wants to be us

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# They're jealous cos we get to hang out

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# In the back of some big star's tour bus

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# We're old boots and t-shirts and blue jeans

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# We're capos and strings and E chords

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# We only dress up in November

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# When they hand out songwriters' awards

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# We're heroes, we're schemers We're the drunks, we're the dreamers

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# We're lovers and sometimes we're fighters

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# We're stupid, we're wise We're the truth, we're the lies

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# We're true love but mostly one-nighters

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# We're the songwriters

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# We write bridges, cross 'em and burn 'em

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# Teach lessons but don't bother to learn 'em

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# Our mothers don't know what we're doin'

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# Or why we stay out all night long

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# I told mine I was a drug dealer

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# She said, "Thank God you ain't writin' songs"

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# We're heroes, we're schemers We're the drunks, we're the dreamers

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# We're lovers and sometimes we're fighters

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# We're the students We're the teachers

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# We're the Devil, we're preachers

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# We're true love but mostly one-nighters

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# We're the songwriters... #

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I've had people ask me why I wrote this song.

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I tell 'em I was the only one that knew the words.

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You know the difference between a songwriter and a large pizza?

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A large pizza can feed a family of four.

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# Do-do-do-do, do-do-do-do, do-do. #

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APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

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Bill Anderson.

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Well, that's the truth. What he just sang is the truth.

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I think Harlan Howard said a real country song

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is three chords and the truth, which is pretty much the truth, you know.

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It's life put to music, and this country song started in the UK.

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I was here working with a friend of mine who was recording,

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and it was my first trip to the UK, so I was like, "Wow!

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"Stuff's really old here. It's really old."

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And we would take a break during the recording session

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and we would go to the local pub. And they're not fooling around here.

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Y'all really drink beer here, don't ya?

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After about three of those, I think I was speaking Turkish,

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and we walked back across the street and there was this beautiful church.

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I've came to find out it was a 700-year-old church, and I remember

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walking up to it going, "I'm going to write a song about you!"

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"I'm going to write a song about this church."

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The next day, I flew home with a hangover.

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And as we crossed into Nashville, we crossed the Cumberland River,

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and somehow The Church On Cumberland Road came out of those two things.

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And I got, Clint Black is going to play a little harmonica with me,

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-if you would, sir.

-I remember some of it.

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# Just about a mile off of 109

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# There's a little church layin' back in the pines

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# Told that little girl she was going to be mine

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# Wouldn't be surprised if she was standin' there cryin'

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# Whoa-oh

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# Didn't know a bored-out Ford

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# Could go so slow

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# Whoa-oh

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# You've got to put your foot down on the floor

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# Yeah, we've been rocking all night, don't you know?

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# Got to get me to the church on Cumberland Road

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# Billy's passed out in the back but I think he's alive

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# Bobby got his head hangin' over the side

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# Here you are only doin' 95

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# What's the matter with you, man? I thought you said you could drive

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# Whoa-oh

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# Didn't know a bored-out Ford

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# Could go so slow

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# Whoa-oh

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# You got to put your foot down on the floor

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# Yeah, we've been rocking all night, don't you know?

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# You got to get me to the church on Cumberland Road... #

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Come on, Clint Black!

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Play some!

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Clint Black on the harmonica.

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APPLAUSE

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# She's sweeter than the dew on a honeysuckle vine

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# Warmer than noon on the fourth of July

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# Sweetest little girl I ever have known

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# Waitin' at the church on Cumberland Road

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# Whoa-oh

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# You got to put your foot down on the floor

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# Whoa-oh

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# You got to put your foot down on the floor

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# Yeah, we've been rocking all night, don't you know?

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# You got to get me to the church on Cumberland Road

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# Yeah, we've been rocking all night, don't you know?

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# You got to get me to the church on Cumberland Road

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# Get me to the church

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# Cumberland Road

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# Get me to the church

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# Cumberland Road

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# Cumberland Road

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# Here we go. #

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APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

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Clint Black on the harmonica! Woo!

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Thank you very much.

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This is a relatively new song of mine I wrote with Hayden,

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my lead guitarist.

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Uh, he's about a year ahead of us with child-rearing.

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He had a son about a year before my wife and I had our daughter Lily.

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And we hadn't written anything for about three years.

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And we finally got together and wrote this song.

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# How can we know how far

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# The long way can be?

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# Looking from where we are

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# It never seemed that long to me

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# I've many miles behind me

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# Maybe not so much ahead

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# It seems I made good time

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# With the directions I misread

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# So I'm going to spend my time Like it's going out of style

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# I'm moving the bottom line Farther than a country mile

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# I still have hills to climb Before I hit that wall

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# No matter how much time I buy

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# I can never spend it all

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# Funny thing, that time

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# We're always running out

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# I'm always losing mine

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# There's not enough of it about

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# And though it's always here

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# It'll always come and go

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# The days become the years

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# That'll be gone before you know

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# So I'm going to spend my time Like it's going out of style

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# I'm moving the bottom line Better than a country mile

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# I still have hills to climb

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# Before I hit that wall

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# I won't go quietly into that dark night

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# There'll be no more burning daylight

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# I'll be living in

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# Every moment that I'm in

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# Oh, I'm going to spend my time Like it's going out of style

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# And I'll only use what's mine I've been savin' for a while

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# I still have hills to climb

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# Before I hit that wall

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# No matter how much time I buy

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# I can never spend it all

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# No matter how much time we buy

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# We can never spend it all

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# I'm going to spend my time

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# I'm going to spend my time. #

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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Clint Black.

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Nice.

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Thank you very much.

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You guys know. Bob, I know you and Clint, you both know,

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when you sit down and write a song,

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you have no idea where it might end up.

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Every once in a while, one will get recorded by somebody

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that's the last person in the world

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you think might record one of your songs.

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Anybody here ever heard of a funny man by the name of Ken Dodd?

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How tickled I am!

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I never would in all of my life ever thought that this song would ever

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make it across the Atlantic ocean and that he would end up making

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a record out of it and it would become part of his signature.

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You guys have probably never heard this,

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cos this has never been a hit in the United States.

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If you know the words, and you probably, not many words to know!

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So help me out.

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# Happiness, happiness

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# The greatest gift that I possess

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# I thank the Lord I've been blessed

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# With more than my share of happiness

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# To me this world is a wonderful place

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# And I'm the happiest human in the human race

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# I've got no silver and I've got no gold

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# Just a whole lot of happiness in my soul

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# Happiness, come on Happiness

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# The greatest gift that I possess

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# I thank the Lord I've been blessed

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# With more than my share of happiness... #

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I came to the UK in the early 1970s with Conway Twitty

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and Loretta Lynn,

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and a reporter from one of the British newspapers...

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oh, they love entertainers.

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They came out and reviewed one of our shows.

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A lot of my songs, I do with narrations. I have a nickname.

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They call me Whispering Bill, among other things.

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And when I recorded the song Happiness, I talked the verses,

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but Ken Dodd sang them.

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And I guess this reporter wasn't used to Bill Anderson's version.

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So the next day in the paper it said,

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and I quote, I have memorised this. I'll never forget it.

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"Bill Anderson has a curious habit

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"of pausing in the middle of his songs to recite little poems,

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"some of which are so sentimental,

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"they would make a greeting card blush."

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LAUGHTER

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And from that day on, Conway Twitty called me Hallmark.

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LAUGHTER

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# Happiness to me is an ocean tide

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# Or a sunset fading on a mountainside

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# Or a big old heaven full of stars above

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# When I'm in the arms of the one I love

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# And happiness is a field of grain

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# Lifting its face to the falling rain

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# I see it in the sunshine and I breathe it in the air

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# Happiness, oh it's everywhere, come on

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# Happiness, happiness

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# The greatest gift that I possess

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# I thank the Lord cos I've been blessed

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# With more than my share of happiness

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# A wise old man told me one time

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# He said, "Son, happiness is just a frame of mind"

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# I hope when they go to measurin' my success

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# They don't count my money Count my happiness

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# Happiness, happiness

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# The greatest gift that I possess

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# I thank the Lord I've been blessed

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# With more than my share of happiness

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# More than my share of happiness

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# Thank you, Ken Dodd, wherever you are. #

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APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

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Now that's a country song.

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It's three chords and the truth, I mean, how good is THAT?

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It is funny how songs

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just kind of, sometimes they live in your head for a long time, and then,

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all of a sudden, they come out, and this next song was kind of like that.

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There was a DJ in my little town, Youngstown, Ohio,

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his name was Boots Bill, and he would go, "Hello, everybody,

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"this is Boots Bill, I got boots in your belfry,

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"and we're here all night long.

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"All day long. A million watts of love power, coming on strong."

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And I thought, "Wow, a million watts! That's more than a thousand.

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"There must be a lot of love power."

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So, come time to write this next song, he just ended up in the song.

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And it was kind of like a love song to the radio.

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# Somebody's at the front door I can hear 'em knockin'

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# Your mama's on the phone and she feels like talkin'

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# There's chicken on the barbecue, barbecuein'

0:28:530:28:58

# Don't worry about it, baby Just drop what you're doing

0:28:580:29:03

# Cos they're playin' our song on the radio

0:29:030:29:07

# OK, Mister DJ, that-a way to go

0:29:070:29:11

# A million watts of love power comin' on strong

0:29:120:29:17

# Dance with me darlin', they're playin' our song

0:29:170:29:21

# Well, the house needs cleanin' and the grass needs mowin'

0:29:300:29:35

# We both got places that we need to be goin'

0:29:350:29:40

# Tomorrow is the big day and we better be ready

0:29:400:29:45

# But tonight it's just you and me rockin' steady

0:29:450:29:49

# Cos they're playin' our song on the radio

0:29:490:29:54

# OK, Mister DJ, that-a way to go

0:29:540:29:58

# A million watts of love power comin' on strong

0:29:590:30:03

# Dance with me, darlin', they're playin' our song

0:30:030:30:08

# Oh, they're playin' our song on the radio

0:30:080:30:13

# OK, Mister DJ, that-a way to go

0:30:130:30:18

# A million watts of love power comin' on strong

0:30:180:30:22

# Dance with me, darlin', they're playin' our song

0:30:220:30:27

# Woah, woah

0:30:270:30:32

# Woah, woo

0:30:320:30:36

# Ooh

0:30:390:30:42

# Dance with me, darlin', they're playin' our song. #

0:30:420:30:51

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

0:30:570:30:59

Thank you.

0:30:590:31:01

A million watts of love power coming on strong!

0:31:030:31:06

Bill, you were a DJ, right?

0:31:090:31:13

-Yeah, but I didn't talk like that!

-LAUGHTER

0:31:130:31:15

It's just a thrill when your sitting up here,

0:31:150:31:18

Bob plays a song like that I sing along with on the radio.

0:31:180:31:23

It's like, "Oh, yeah, he wrote that one, too!"

0:31:230:31:27

LAUGHTER

0:31:270:31:29

I'll do a song that's born out of a smart Alec remark

0:31:290:31:32

that I always say.

0:31:320:31:34

I just try to be absurd whenever I can.

0:31:340:31:36

So, people would, you know,

0:31:370:31:41

it happens to everyone from time to time, and often.

0:31:410:31:45

Someone just asks, "How you doing?"

0:31:450:31:48

You've met those people who just instantly,

0:31:480:31:52

"Never better. Never better."

0:31:520:31:54

"All right. Good for you, good for you."

0:31:540:31:57

CHUCKLES IN AUDIENCE

0:31:570:31:58

Worse though is the, "Never been worse" crowd.

0:31:580:32:03

"Never been worse. We're doomed!"

0:32:030:32:06

And so, I always thought of myself as being all right to be just OK.

0:32:060:32:11

# I've been better, I've been worse

0:32:170:32:20

# I've been blessed and I've been cursed

0:32:200:32:23

# Ain't dead last and ain't in first

0:32:230:32:25

# Not everything is going to go my way

0:32:250:32:29

# I've been better, I've been worse

0:32:290:32:32

# I'm right on purpose and unrehearsed

0:32:320:32:35

# Singing in the chorus when I need more verse

0:32:350:32:38

# Not everything is going to go my way

0:32:380:32:42

# So I push too hard I lean too far

0:32:420:32:45

# Thinking I can have it all

0:32:450:32:47

# I stumble just a little

0:32:470:32:49

# I end up in the middle

0:32:490:32:50

# Banging my head against a brand new wall

0:32:500:32:53

# I've been better, I've been worse

0:32:530:32:56

# I can do without the doctor but I need my nurse

0:32:560:32:58

# My heart's beating steady

0:32:580:33:00

# But it's in reverse

0:33:000:33:02

# Not everything is going to go my way

0:33:020:33:04

# So I push too hard I lean too far

0:33:140:33:17

# Thinking I can have it all

0:33:170:33:20

# Then I stumble just a little

0:33:200:33:21

# And I end up in the middle

0:33:210:33:23

# Thank God Almighty I didn't lose it all

0:33:230:33:26

# I've been better, I've been worse

0:33:260:33:29

# Got a yin-yang thing and a tie for first

0:33:290:33:31

# I guess I ain't the sinner of the universe

0:33:310:33:34

# Not everything is going to go my way

0:33:340:33:37

# I've been worse

0:33:370:33:38

# Text with the best but I can't converse

0:33:380:33:41

# I got a little money but it's in...

0:33:410:33:45

# Her purse

0:33:450:33:46

# Not everything is going to go my way. #

0:33:460:33:50

AUDIENCE MEMBER: Yeah!

0:34:020:34:03

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

0:34:040:34:07

Clint Black.

0:34:070:34:09

Woo!

0:34:150:34:17

Bill Anderson, what you got for us, my buddy?

0:34:180:34:21

I don't want these people to think that every song I've written

0:34:210:34:24

is 50 years' old!

0:34:240:34:26

Some of them are older than that!

0:34:270:34:30

LAUGHTER

0:34:300:34:31

I'm still trying to write songs.

0:34:310:34:33

For most of my career as a song writer, I wrote songs about myself.

0:34:330:34:38

I thought you had to get off in a dark room somewhere

0:34:380:34:41

and pull all the shades down and get miserable to write country songs.

0:34:410:34:45

And then, in the middle '90s,

0:34:450:34:46

I discovered this thing called co-writing.

0:34:460:34:48

Like, Bob and I have co-written.

0:34:480:34:51

Clint, we never have, but I hope we will, one of these days.

0:34:510:34:53

Co-writing is a lot of fun when you get with guys, or girls,

0:34:560:34:59

whatever, that you kind of get on the same wavelength

0:34:590:35:03

and try and write a song.

0:35:030:35:04

I was with a couple of great writers and dear friends one morning,

0:35:040:35:08

back in early 2007.

0:35:080:35:10

One is a great record producer named Buddy Cannon, the other is

0:35:100:35:14

a wonderfully talented artist and writer named Jamie Johnson.

0:35:140:35:18

And we were sitting around the table trying to just catch up

0:35:180:35:21

with each other, and all of a sudden somebody says,

0:35:210:35:24

"Well, what are we going to write about?"

0:35:240:35:27

Buddy said, "I don't have an idea."

0:35:270:35:29

Cos you try and bring an idea to a writing session.

0:35:290:35:31

You try to come up with something.

0:35:310:35:33

And I said, "Well, I don't really have a great idea either."

0:35:330:35:37

Jamie said, "I'm going through a divorce."

0:35:390:35:43

-I said, "I've seen that movie!"

-Fantastic.

0:35:460:35:49

Hope is on the way.

0:35:510:35:52

So, Jamie picked up his guitar, and I said,

0:35:540:35:56

"Just whatever is on your mind, Jamie.

0:35:560:35:59

"Just let it come out."

0:35:590:36:02

Of all things, he started talking instead of singing.

0:36:020:36:05

I thought he was making fun of me to start with.

0:36:050:36:07

THE OTHERS LAUGH

0:36:070:36:09

He said...

0:36:100:36:12

She was storming through the house that day

0:36:140:36:17

and I could tell she was leaving.

0:36:170:36:18

And I thought, "Oh, she'll be back."

0:36:200:36:23

And she turned and pointed to the wall.

0:36:250:36:28

And she said...

0:36:280:36:29

# That picture from our honeymoon

0:36:310:36:34

# That night in Frisco Bay

0:36:350:36:37

# Just give it away

0:36:370:36:38

# She said, give it away

0:36:400:36:41

# And that big four-poster king-size bed

0:36:450:36:48

# Where so much love was made

0:36:480:36:50

# Just give it away

0:36:500:36:53

# She said, give it away

0:36:530:36:55

# Just give it away

0:36:560:36:59

# Ain't nothin' in this house worth fightin' over

0:37:000:37:04

# And we're both tired of fightin' anyway

0:37:070:37:11

# So just give it away... #

0:37:110:37:14

I've finally played one that you've heard, huh?

0:37:160:37:19

Help yourself. I need all the help I can get!

0:37:230:37:27

So I tried to move on.

0:37:300:37:33

But every woman that I held just reminded me of that day.

0:37:360:37:39

# When the front door swung wide open

0:37:410:37:44

# And she flung her diamond ring

0:37:440:37:47

# Said, give it away

0:37:470:37:50

# Just give it away

0:37:500:37:52

# And I said, now, honey, don't you even want your half of everything

0:37:540:38:00

# She said, give it away

0:38:000:38:01

# Just give it away

0:38:030:38:06

# Just give it away

0:38:060:38:08

# Ain't nothin' in this house worth fightin' over

0:38:100:38:14

# And we're both tired of fightin' anyway

0:38:160:38:20

# So just give it away... #

0:38:220:38:24

Unrehearsed!

0:38:490:38:50

So I'm still right here where she left me.

0:38:560:38:59

Along with all the other things She don't care about any more.

0:39:010:39:05

# Like the picture from our honeymoon

0:39:080:39:12

# That night in Frisco Bay

0:39:120:39:13

# She said, give it away

0:39:130:39:15

# But I can't give it away

0:39:170:39:19

# And that big four-poster king-size bed

0:39:200:39:25

# Where all our love was made

0:39:250:39:27

# She said, give it away

0:39:270:39:29

# But I can't give it away

0:39:290:39:33

# I've got a furnished house, a diamond ring

0:39:360:39:40

# And a lonely broken heart

0:39:400:39:45

# Full of love

0:39:450:39:48

# And I can't even give it away. #

0:39:500:39:58

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

0:40:050:40:09

For those of you who may not know over here,

0:40:200:40:23

that was a big hit for George Strait.

0:40:230:40:25

Yeah, and I want to thank all the people here for being

0:40:250:40:28

so nice to that song.

0:40:280:40:31

-George Strait doesn't need the money, but I do!

-LAUGHTER

0:40:310:40:34

When I started a website, I wanted it to be real popular,

0:40:340:40:37

so called it Georgestrait.com, they didn't allow me to keep it.

0:40:370:40:41

LAUGHTER

0:40:410:40:43

This song came just out of sheer boredom.

0:40:430:40:49

I was writing with a friend of mine, Jeff Steele,

0:40:490:40:52

and we're sitting there after three hours of basically

0:40:520:40:56

beating our heads against a wall, and I said, "You know what, man?

0:40:560:41:02

"Let's write a song that's got two chords in it, and a one word title.

0:41:020:41:08

"How long can that take?

0:41:080:41:10

"We've got about an hour, and we'll go to lunch." "That sounds good."

0:41:100:41:14

All you have to do is tell a songwriter

0:41:140:41:16

you are going to go to lunch and it's on.

0:41:160:41:18

Or at least this song.

0:41:180:41:21

So, this is what we came up with.

0:41:210:41:23

# This ain't no temporary, typical, tearful goodbye

0:41:410:41:47

# This ain't no takin' up, makin' and breakin' up one more time

0:41:500:41:56

# This is gone, gone, gone, gone

0:41:560:42:05

# Gone like a freight train, gone like yesterday

0:42:070:42:11

# Gone like a soldier in the Civil War, bang, bang

0:42:110:42:16

# Gone like a '59 Cadillac

0:42:160:42:19

# Like all the good things it ain't never coming back

0:42:190:42:23

# She's gone, gone, gone, gone, she's gone

0:42:230:42:31

# This ain't no "Baby I'm hurtin' but maybe we can work it out"

0:42:420:42:48

# Won't be no champagne, red rose, romance, second chance

0:42:500:42:57

# This is gone, gone, gone, gone

0:42:570:43:06

# Gone like a freight train, gone like yesterday

0:43:060:43:11

# Gone like a soldier in the Civil War, bang, bang

0:43:110:43:16

# Gone like a '59 Cadillac

0:43:160:43:19

# Like all the good things that ain't never coming back

0:43:190:43:24

# She's gone, gone, gone... #

0:43:240:43:29

Come on, Clint.

0:43:290:43:31

# She's gone like a freight train

0:44:050:44:08

# Gone like yesterday

0:44:080:44:10

# Gone like a soldier in the Civil War, bang, bang

0:44:100:44:15

# Gone like a '59 Cadillac

0:44:150:44:18

# Like all the good things, good things, good things

0:44:180:44:21

# That ain't coming back

0:44:210:44:23

# She's gone

0:44:230:44:27

# My baby's gone

0:44:270:44:30

# She's gone, gone, gone, gone

0:44:300:44:35

# Look out

0:44:350:44:38

# Gone, gone, done me wrong, never coming back, my baby's gone

0:44:400:44:44

# Woo-hoo

0:44:450:44:51

# Coming round again

0:44:510:44:53

# At home, sitting alone, packed up bags, and now she's gone

0:44:530:44:57

# Woah she's gone like a freight train

0:44:590:45:03

# She's gone like yesterday

0:45:030:45:06

# Gone like a soldier in the Civil War, bang, bang

0:45:060:45:09

# Gone like a '59 Cadillac

0:45:090:45:12

# Like all the good things, good thing, good things

0:45:140:45:17

# Ain't coming back

0:45:170:45:18

# She's gone, gone, gone

0:45:180:45:21

# She's gone, gone, gone

0:45:210:45:24

# She's gone. #

0:45:240:45:27

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

0:45:300:45:32

Thank you.

0:45:320:45:35

This is a song really inspired by Roy Rogers,

0:45:400:45:44

who I had the pleasure of getting to know a little bit.

0:45:440:45:47

A great experience, recorded a song with him,

0:45:470:45:50

and got to spend a couple of years with him off and on,

0:45:500:45:54

going to award shows. Being nominated with Roy Rogers!

0:45:540:45:58

He said lots of great stuff. And his wife, too, Dale. Great lady.

0:45:590:46:06

The one thing that stuck out above everything else that she said was,

0:46:060:46:11

she was kind of secretly hoping that Roy would pass first,

0:46:110:46:17

because she really, truly was afraid that he might have her stuffed!

0:46:190:46:24

LAUGHTER

0:46:240:46:26

Wow!

0:46:310:46:32

She said not to tell anyone!

0:46:350:46:37

-LAUGHTER

-And when I met Roy, the first thing he said to me was,

0:46:370:46:43

"I thought I killed off all you black-hatted fellas

0:46:430:46:47

"back in the '40s!"

0:46:470:46:49

So I had to try and work some reference to that into the song.

0:46:500:46:54

This is called Code Of The West.

0:46:550:46:57

# All my life I've been a cowboy in my heart

0:47:090:47:13

# Every Western hero on the screen's been with me from the start

0:47:150:47:20

# Ridin' high and showin' me the way

0:47:200:47:24

# And they've been there with me through my toughest times

0:47:260:47:31

# We'd ride out to the boundaries but we never crossed those lines

0:47:310:47:36

# And that's a code that I'm still livin' by today

0:47:360:47:40

# The code of the West was black and white

0:47:410:47:46

# Good guys and the bad

0:47:460:47:49

# You would always know who's wrong or right

0:47:490:47:53

# By the colour of their hat

0:47:530:47:56

# Now there aren't so many happy trails

0:47:570:48:00

# I've ridden some you wouldn't wanna see

0:48:000:48:03

# They don't go off into the sunset

0:48:050:48:08

# And they don't run from sea to shinin' sea

0:48:080:48:11

# And it's good to see the bad guys on the run

0:48:150:48:20

# While our modern day heroes show 'em how the West was won

0:48:210:48:26

# On their trail till they bring the last one down

0:48:260:48:30

# We could use a few more cowboys here today

0:48:320:48:36

# A few more days of reckoning and a lot more hell to pay

0:48:370:48:43

# Where that debt is owed there ain't no middle ground

0:48:430:48:47

# The code of the West was black and white

0:48:480:48:51

# The good guys and the bad

0:48:510:48:54

# You would always know who's wrong or right

0:48:560:49:00

# By the colour of their hat

0:49:000:49:03

# Now there aren't so many happy trails

0:49:040:49:06

# I've ridden some you wouldn't wanna see

0:49:060:49:10

# They don't go off into the sunset

0:49:120:49:15

# And they don't run from sea to shinin' sea

0:49:150:49:18

# The code of the West was black and white

0:49:360:49:40

# The good guys and the bad

0:49:400:49:42

# You would always know who's wrong and who was right

0:49:430:49:47

# By the colour of their hat

0:49:470:49:51

# Now there aren't so many happy trails

0:49:510:49:54

# I've ridden some you wouldn't wanna see

0:49:540:49:57

# They don't go off into the sunset

0:50:000:50:03

# And they don't run from sea to shinin' sea

0:50:030:50:06

# All my life I've been a cowboy in my heart. #

0:50:090:50:15

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

0:50:280:50:31

Thank you.

0:50:310:50:32

Thank you.

0:50:350:50:37

How many of you think he looks like Roy Rogers?

0:50:380:50:42

-LAUGHTER

-All you need's the white hat.

0:50:420:50:45

Well, at least you didn't look like Trigger.

0:50:450:50:47

LAUGHTER

0:50:470:50:49

Why the long face?

0:50:520:50:53

Why the long face?

0:50:530:50:55

No, really. There's two guys walk into a bar,

0:50:550:50:58

and you'd think the second guy would duck!

0:50:580:51:01

LAUGHTER

0:51:010:51:02

Oh, don't go there. Please don't go there.

0:51:040:51:07

I wrote this song not long after I moved to Nashville,

0:51:070:51:11

which tells you right there it's an old song.

0:51:110:51:16

After I recorded this song my buddy Roy Clark came along

0:51:160:51:20

and cut it, he had a big hit record on it.

0:51:200:51:22

And your buddy and mine, Mr Steve Warner, Clint, 1992.

0:51:220:51:28

He took this song all the way to number one.

0:51:280:51:31

# I reached out my arms and I touched you

0:51:320:51:39

# With soft words I whispered your name

0:51:410:51:46

# I held your love on the tips of my fingers

0:51:490:51:57

# But that was as close as I came

0:51:580:52:04

# My eyes had a vision of sweet lips

0:52:070:52:12

# Yielding beneath my command

0:52:150:52:20

# I held your love on the tips of my fingers

0:52:230:52:31

# But I let it slip right through my hands

0:52:310:52:38

# I let you slip right through my hands

0:52:400:52:46

# Somebody took you when I wasn't looking

0:52:480:52:56

# And I should have known from the start

0:52:570:53:02

# It's a long, long way from the tips of my fingers

0:53:050:53:13

# To the love hidden deep in your heart

0:53:130:53:19

# To the love hidden deep in your heart

0:53:210:53:27

# I held your love on the tips of my fingers

0:54:120:54:20

# But I let it slip right through my hands

0:54:200:54:26

# I let you slip right through my hands

0:54:280:54:34

# I held your love on the tips of my fingers. #

0:54:370:54:49

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

0:54:580:55:01

Well, we've had enough of you...

0:55:140:55:17

LAUGHTER

0:55:170:55:18

We figured we'd close the show with the quintessential country song

0:55:180:55:22

and it's kind of a great closer, so that's why we're doing it.

0:55:220:55:28

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

0:55:280:55:33

# I was standing by my window

0:55:430:55:47

# On one cold and cloudy day

0:55:470:55:52

# When I saw that hearse come rolling

0:55:520:55:56

# For to carry my mother away

0:55:560:56:00

# Will the circle be unbroken

0:56:000:56:05

# By and by, Lord, by and by

0:56:050:56:10

# There's a better home a-waiting

0:56:100:56:15

# In the sky, Lord, in the sky

0:56:150:56:20

# So I told the undertaker

0:56:200:56:25

# Undertaker, please drive slow

0:56:250:56:29

# For that lady you've been hauling

0:56:290:56:33

# Lord, I hate to see her go

0:56:330:56:39

# Will the circle be unbroken

0:56:390:56:44

# By and by, Lord, by and by

0:56:440:56:48

# There's a better home a-waiting

0:56:480:56:53

# In the sky, Lord, in the sky... #

0:56:530:56:56

Come on.

0:56:560:56:58

# So I followed close behind them

0:57:190:57:24

# Tried to hold up and be brave... #

0:57:240:57:28

AUDIENCE CLAPS IN TIME

0:57:280:57:30

# But I could not hide my sorrow

0:57:300:57:34

# When they laid her in that grave... #

0:57:340:57:37

Everybody.

0:57:370:57:38

# Will the circle be unbroken

0:57:380:57:42

# By and by, Lord, by and by

0:57:420:57:47

# There's a better home a-waiting

0:57:470:57:52

# In the sky, Lord, in the sky... #

0:57:520:57:56

One more time.

0:57:560:57:57

# Will the circle be unbroken

0:57:570:58:02

# By and by, Lord, by and by

0:58:020:58:07

# There's a better home a-waiting

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# In the sky, Lord, in the sky

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# There's a better home a-waiting

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# In the sky, Lord, in the sky

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# In the sky. #

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Good night, everybody.

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APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

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Clint Black.

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Bill Anderson.

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Bob DiPiero.

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Bobby D.

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