Bill and Gloria Gaither: Precious Memories

Bill Gaither - Alan Jackson: Precious Memories

November 30, 2024 | S

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Bill and Gloria Gaither: Precious Memories | Bill Gaither - Alan Jackson: Precious Memories | November 30, 2024

Bill gaither: life is made up of moments...
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... like turning the pages of a photograph album.
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Our memories preserve for us the relationships...
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... and events that tell the stories of each of our lives.
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Happy, sad, joyful, and painful.
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The memories of our days make up the fabric...
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... of who we are.
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(choir singing) ♪precious memories♪
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♪how they linger♪
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♪how they ever flood my soul♪
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Bill gaither: an unforgettable memory was made when dozens of friends...
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... who had spent their lives in gospel music...
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... gathered to sings some songs from their own...
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... personal treasure of memories.
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For these folks, many precious memories...
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... had begun around a piano somewhere.
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They're sharing songs about how their lives have been changed...
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... by god's amazing grace.
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♪precious scenes unfold♪
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♪ ♪
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[soft guitar music]
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♪ ♪
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- ♪ blessed assurance, ♪
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♪ jesus is mine. ♪
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♪ oh, what a foretaste ♪
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♪ of glory divine. ♪
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♪ heir of salvation, ♪
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♪ purchase of god, ♪
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♪ born of his spirit, ♪
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♪ washed in his blood. ♪
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♪ this is my story. ♪
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♪ this is my song. ♪
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♪ praising my savior ♪
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♪ all the day long. ♪
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♪ this is my story. ♪
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♪ this is my song. ♪
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♪ praising my savior ♪
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♪ all the day long. ♪
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♪ ♪
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♪ perfect submission, ♪
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♪ perfect delight. ♪
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♪ visions of rapture ♪
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♪ now burst on my sight. ♪
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♪ angels descending ♪
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♪ bring from above ♪
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♪ echoes of mercy, ♪
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♪ whispers of love. ♪
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♪ this is my story. ♪
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♪ this is my song. ♪
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♪ praising my savior ♪
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♪ all the day long. ♪
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♪ this is my story. ♪
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♪ this is my song. ♪
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♪ praising my savior ♪
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♪ all the day long. ♪
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♪ praising my savior ♪
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♪ all the day long. ♪
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[cheers and applause]
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Thank you. thank y'all very much.
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I'm alan jackson, and welcome
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To the historic ryman auditorium here in nashville.
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I can't think of a better place to kick off my new gospel album
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Than right here in the mother church of country music.
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[cheers and applause]
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Course, i guess you know we're here
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Singing some gospel songs.
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My mama's been wearing me out for ten years
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To do this gospel album, you know?
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[cheers and applause]
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[gentle piano music]
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♪ ♪
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So we'll just get on with it here.
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♪ i come to the garden alone ♪
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♪ while the dew ♪
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♪ is still on the roses, ♪
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♪ and the voice i hear ♪
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♪ falling on my ear, ♪
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♪ the son of god discloses. ♪
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♪ and he walks with me, ♪
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♪ and he talks with me, ♪
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♪ and he tells me ♪
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♪ i am his own. ♪
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♪ and the joy we share ♪
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♪ as we tarry there, ♪
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♪ none other has ever known. ♪
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♪ i'd stay in the garden ♪
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♪ with him, ♪
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♪ but the night ♪
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♪ around me is falling. ♪
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♪ but he bids me go. ♪
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♪ through the voice of woe, ♪
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♪ his voice to me ♪
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♪ is calling. ♪
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♪ and he walks with me, ♪
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♪ and he talks with me, ♪
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♪ and he tells me ♪
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♪ i am his own. ♪
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♪ and the joy we share ♪
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♪ as we tarry there, ♪
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♪ none other has ever known. ♪
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♪ and the joy we share ♪
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♪ as we tarry there, ♪
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♪ none other has ever ♪
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♪ known. ♪
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[cheers and applause]
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Oh, thank you.
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Yeah, i grew up
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In newnan, georgia, down below atlanta.
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At that time, it was a real quaint small town.
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It kind of reminds me of franklin here in tennessee,
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Where we live, and-- with a court square.
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And we went to in the newnan proper,10,000, maybe,
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And i would say the buckle of the bible belt
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Is a good way to describe it.
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There were churches on every street corner, and--
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You know, and everybody went to church.
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Really, there was not a lot to do for entertainment
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In newnan back then, so that's what you did as kids
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For entertainment and as teenagers
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And for your social life.
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You went to church to be with your friends.
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So--and actually, that's how alan and i met.
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We met on a wednesday night after church.
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All the kids would go down to the dairy queen
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And hang out, and, you know,
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I came from my baptist church, he came from his,
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And we just happened to hook up that evening
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At the dairy queen.
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So it was very instrumental in my life
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'cause that's pretty much why we met.
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Which was downtown.
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It was a small church when i was very young.
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Probably when i was almost a teenager,
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They built a new sanctuary next door, and--
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So the old one still remains there,
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But the original one i went to
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Was a small, really pretty little church.
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- church was very important in our family.
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We started off at-- my husband was a member
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Of first baptist church when i married him.
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And we married quite young.
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It's like, it's been known i was 16 and he was 19.
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But i didn't belong to a church
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Because i grew up in a country church
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And never was a part of a church
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Like i wanted my children to be.
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And i made a point that they were always
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In the sunday school and in the choir.
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Well, they started when they were just real, real young.
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And that was all they ever knew.
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They grew up in that.
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They sang in the choir and were always at church
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And sunday school and everything.
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It was just--it's what we tried to have in our house.
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- it was just a pretty standard,
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You know, southern kind of easygoing church,
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And you were real reverent and quiet in there.
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Nobody said anything, and they stood up and sang the hymns.
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I enjoy the traditional gospel hymns
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And music that i grew up in the church listening to,
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I guess, because you just--
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Anytime you're familiar with a song, you automatically,
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You know, feel you have a connection with it,
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Or it brings back a memory or something.
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♪ i love to tell the story ♪
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♪ of unseen things above, ♪
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♪ of jesus and his glory, ♪
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♪ of jesus and his love. ♪
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♪ i love to tell the story, ♪
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♪ because i know 'tis true. ♪
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♪ it satisfies my longings ♪
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♪ as nothing else can do. ♪
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♪ i love to tell the story. ♪
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♪ 'twill be my theme in glory ♪
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♪ to tell the old, old story ♪
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♪ of jesus and his love. ♪
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♪ i love to tell the story, ♪
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♪ for those who know it best ♪
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♪ seem hungering and thirsting ♪
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♪ to hear it like the rest. ♪
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♪ and when, in scenes of glory, ♪
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♪ i sing the new, new song, ♪
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♪ 'twill be the old, old story ♪
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♪ that i have loved so long. ♪
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♪ i love to tell the story. ♪
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♪ 'twill be my theme in glory ♪
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♪ to tell the old, old story ♪
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♪ of jesus and his love. ♪
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♪ to tell the old, old story ♪
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♪ of jesus and his love. ♪
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[cheers and applause]
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[laughs]
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Oh, thank you.
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- the first song that was recorded for the album
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Was the one that he did for my father's funeral last summer,
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And it's "turn your eyes upon jesus,"
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Which is one of my favorite songs,
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Before my daddy's service is that we were able
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To find some old tapes of mother singing.
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And i know this was god's gift to us,
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But we found two songs, solos,
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That mother sang in the church service in 1965.
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We put them onto cd,
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And we played two of those at my daddy's service.
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And to sit there as an adult
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And hear that being played again,
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I felt like i was five years old,
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Sitting in that pew,
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And i could just see her standing up there singing.
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So that was a--
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That was a wonderful gift.
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- they had a hard time getting me to say
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That i'd let them play my two songs that i sang.
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- [laughs]
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- but it came out all right.
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Because the first time that i ever met denise's daddy,
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We went to church.
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That was the first time we went to church.
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And it was at night, of course, and he--
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I sang a solo that night,
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The first time i ever saw him.
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So i thought it was quite a good thing to do to sing--
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- appropriate that the first day they met,
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She sang a solo in church,
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And telling him good-bye for the last time...
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- i thought i owed that to him.
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- was her two beautiful songs
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That she had sung that really made him realize .
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How special it would be to her--
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After she heard just the one song,
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How special it would be, you know, for her to really have
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A collection of hymns that he had done for her.
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- timing just kind of leads you
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The way it's supposed to work out,
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And i think that's what happened here.
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It was just a good time and may have been
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Because i am a little older,
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And it gave me more time to think about it,
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And my mother's getting older, too,
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And my family, so it was a good--
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Good time to go in and try to record it.
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♪ o soul, are you weary ♪
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♪ and troubled? ♪
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♪ no light in the darkness ♪
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♪ you see? ♪
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♪ there's light for a look ♪
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♪ at the savior ♪
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♪ and life more abundant ♪
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♪ and free. ♪
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♪ turn your eyes upon jesus. ♪
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♪ look full in his wonderful face. ♪
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♪ and the things of earth ♪
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♪ will grow strangely dim ♪
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♪ in the light of his glory ♪
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♪ and grace. ♪
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♪ ♪
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♪ through death into ♪
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♪ life everlasting ♪
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♪ he passed, ♪
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♪ and we follow him there. ♪
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♪ over us sin no more ♪
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♪ hath dominion, ♪
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♪ for more than conqu'rors ♪
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♪ we are. ♪
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♪ so turn your eyes upon jesus. ♪
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♪ look full in his wonderful face. ♪
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♪ and the things of earth ♪
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♪ will grow strangely dim ♪
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♪ in the light of his glory ♪
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♪ and grace. ♪
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♪ and the things of earth ♪
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♪ will grow strangely dim ♪
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♪ in the light of his glory ♪
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♪ and grace. ♪
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[cheers and applause]
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Well, when we went in the studio,
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I started thinking about some special things to do,
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'cause this was a gift for my mother
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And denise's mother and so forth.
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So i finally talked my girls
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Into coming in and singing on a song.
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My wife sang, and my oldest daughter, mattie,
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And ali and then dani, the youngest one,
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They all came in.
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Everybody sang except dani. she chickened out.
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[laughter]
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So i put her on the album--
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Credit as a vocal assistant
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'cause she went and got me a bottle of water
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Out of the refrigerator one time.
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[laughter]
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Got her in there.
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But anyway, i begged them to sing tonight,
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And they wouldn't do it.
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They were scared. audience: aw!
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- you know...
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I mean, i don't blame them. it's tough.
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But they did a good job on the album,
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And it's really a treat to have them on there.
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I know that a lot of our family appreciates that.
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But so we selected somebody to fill in
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That still kind of is family
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And make a good replacement tonight,
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And i want to introduce him now.
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This is my nephew from georgia, adam wright,
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And his lovely wife, shannon.
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[cheers and applause]
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They're better known
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As the acr/rca recording duo the wrights.
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They're working on a career and getting started
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And making some good music,
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So they're gonna help us out tonight
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On this sweet little jesus song.
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[soft piano music]
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♪ ♪
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♪ 'tis so sweet to trust in jesus ♪
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♪ and to take him at his word, ♪
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♪ just to rest upon his promise ♪
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♪ and to know, "thus saith the lord." ♪
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[together] ♪ jesus, jesus, how i trust him. ♪
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♪ how i've proved him o'er and o'er. ♪
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♪ jesus, jesus, precious jesus. ♪
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♪ oh, for grace to trust him more. ♪
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Both: ♪ i'm so glad i learned to trust thee, ♪
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♪ precious jesus, savior, friend. ♪
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♪ and i know that thou art with me, ♪
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♪ wilt be with me till the end. ♪
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[together] ♪ jesus, jesus, how i trust him. ♪
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♪ how i've proved him o'er and o'er. ♪
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♪ jesus, jesus, precious jesus. ♪
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♪ oh, for grace to trust him more. ♪
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- that's the wrights, adam and shannon.
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God bless you.
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Fine job.
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[cheers and applause]
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That's one of my sister's boys there. ♪ ♪
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- "precious memories," of course, is another old hymn.
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I didn't record it on this album,
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But when i was looking for a title,
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It just stuck out to me because that's what
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A lot of these songs are, just memories from growing up
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And what they meant to us,
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And i just felt strongly about that as a title.
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- i do think that the death of both of our fathers
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Placed probably an urgency on him that, you know,
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"i really need to do this.
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I want to do this for my mother."
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And certainly, you know, the death of his father
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Had a great impact on him
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And, if nothing else, just reflecting
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On the kind of man he was,
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And alan so admired him.
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- i didn't know that he was going to do it.
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When we got older, i remember him playing
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Old jo ann castle on the pianos
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And a lot of chuck wagon gang,
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Who were a well-known gospel group,
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And a lot of those songs
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Were played around the house as we grew up.
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My sisters-- i had four older sisters--
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They all sang in church
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And school and that kind of thing.
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But, really, we never really sat around the house
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Singing on the porch or anything that much.
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My mama sang a lot just walking around the house.
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Now, daddy never-- you never heard daddy sing.
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I saw him singing in church some,
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But he didn't move his mouth much.
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But-- - [laughs]
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- no, i mean, we weren't, like, a musician family.
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Nobody played an instrument, i don't guess, that i ever--
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Nobody ever learned.
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♪ ♪
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Mama ruth: this all came about after my husband passed away.
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Well, he hadn't been gone but a short time,
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And the children didn't play.
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They'd always sung,
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But none of them had ever played an instrument.
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And after he was gone, they just decided,
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"well, this might be a good thing to do."
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One of them's husband played the guitar.
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And of course, one of my other son-in-laws
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Plays the organ and piano real well.
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He's an accomplished pianist.
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But the others never had played.
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- about six years ago, my twin sister, carol, here
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Married banks glover,
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And it was about six months after daddy gene died,
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In the year 2000,
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And banks had played guitar
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Most of his life since high school.
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It was something he liked to do in his spare time.
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But none of us girls had ever played instruments.
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We had sung a lot, every day all our lives,
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But never played instruments.
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We all have sunday lunch every week at mama's house,
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So they would come over after church on sunday
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And pull out their two guitars after lunch
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And play some little duets.
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And they kept pestering some of the others of us
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To join in the band, so they said, "we need a bass.
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You got to get a bass and join us."
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So they pestered me for a few months,
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And i finally broke down and got an electric bass
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And started fiddling around with it
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And got some pointers from some people,
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And, you know, we kind of started learning.
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And then later switched to the big upright bass,
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Which we think better belongs in a bluegrass band,
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But we like it a lot.
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And then diane, the oldest sister,
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Wanted to join us.
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She had an old guitar that was warped
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And didn't work anymore,
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So we bought her a mandolin,
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And she loved it and took lessons on it
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And got really good on it
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And then, like she does, gets tired of stuff
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And wants to try something new,
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So she's recently switched
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From the mandolin to the banjo
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And gotten really good on the banjo,
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And it kind of gives a new sound to the group.
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And mama ruth here plays the snare drum
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And the tambourine and just kind of adds
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A little rhythm and color to the group.
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We have a good time.
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We play at a lot of local events,
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Just local gigs, churches and small things.
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But we have a good time practicing.
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We practice very sunday night over at carol and banks' house,
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And it's just a fun thing to keep the family together.
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It was a winter day, late january,
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About the time he had died,
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About two years after he had died, so 2002,
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But it was a beautiful sunny day like this
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And warm, almost exactly like this,
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And mama said, "we ought to go out to the cemetery
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"and play for daddy gene.
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"we can play 'down yonder.'
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That was one of his favorite songs."
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So we packed up all the instruments,
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Called david to meet us out here,
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And did a little concert for daddy gene.
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[bright music playing]
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♪ ♪
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His whole family was up here - ♪ this for christmas-- home. ♪
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The weekend before christmas,
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And actually, she was by herself--
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Had gotten up that morning, and alan said,
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"mother, you know, i have a gift i want to go ahead
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"and give to you now so you can listen to it
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Without being distracted."
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And he said, you know, "i've finally done
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The gospel cd that you've wanted for so long."
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He had promised me that he would make me one sometime, - we just put the cd on and let it play.
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But i had no idea that he was making it
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Until we were up here just before christmas.
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- well,we were all in there to alan's mopening presents
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And things with our family.
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And so i just put that on
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And said, "here's your present,"
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And had the music come out
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And handed her the copy of the cd case.
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So we sat there and listened to it.
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- and i sat there and cried.
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[laughter]
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- with the first song, "blessed assurance,"
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I mean, she--she just wept.
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She sat at our bar in our kitchen
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And, every--every song, just really wept
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And sang along with it
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And just kept saying over and over again, you know,
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"this is the best gift you could have ever given me."
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[joyful music]
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♪ ♪
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- ♪ sing the wondrous love of jesus. ♪
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♪ sing his mercy and his grace. ♪
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♪ in the mansions bright and blessed, ♪
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♪ he'll prepare for us a place. ♪
00:28:12.280 --> 00:28:15.784
♪ when we all get to heaven, ♪
00:28:15.784 --> 00:28:20.588
♪ what a day of rejoicing that will be. ♪
00:28:20.588 --> 00:28:25.160
♪ when we all see jesus, ♪
00:28:25.160 --> 00:28:29.664
♪ we'll sing and shout the victory. ♪
00:28:29.664 --> 00:28:34.235
♪ onward to the prize before us. ♪
00:28:34.235 --> 00:28:38.907
♪ soon his beauty we'll behold. ♪
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♪ soon the pearly gates will open. ♪
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♪ we shall tread the streets of gold. ♪
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♪ when we all get to heaven, ♪
00:28:51.786 --> 00:28:56.324
♪ what a day of rejoicing that will be. ♪
00:28:56.324 --> 00:29:00.662
♪ when we all see jesus, ♪
00:29:00.662 --> 00:29:05.300
♪ we'll sing and shout the victory. ♪
00:29:05.300 --> 00:29:09.637
♪ when we all see jesus, ♪
00:29:09.637 --> 00:29:14.142
♪ we'll sing and shout the victory. ♪
00:29:14.142 --> 00:29:21.649
[cheers and applause]
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- mother says she pushes the button on her stereo
00:29:31.759 --> 00:29:35.930
Several times a day and just lets the music run.
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- i loved it. i love every one of those songs.
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I did a lot of singing in the choir
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For a good many years.
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When i was younger and going to church,
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They were singing all the old, old hymns,
00:29:49.477 --> 00:29:53.448
And they were just beautiful then,
00:29:53.448 --> 00:29:55.183
As well as they seem more beautiful today.
00:29:55.183 --> 00:29:58.753
- i'm sure she won't brag on herself,
00:29:58.753 --> 00:30:00.121
But she had a beautiful voice.
00:30:00.121 --> 00:30:01.556
It was an opera-like voice.
00:30:01.556 --> 00:30:03.758
It was untrained, but it was just gorgeous.
00:30:03.758 --> 00:30:06.160
I can just see her standing up there in her choir robe,
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You know, singing, and it's--
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It's one of my best childhood memories, really,
00:30:10.498 --> 00:30:14.836
Is just remembering her beautiful voice.
00:30:14.836 --> 00:30:17.405
[applause]
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[soft piano music]
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♪ ♪
00:30:25.880 --> 00:30:32.420
- ♪ softly and tenderly, ♪
00:30:32.420 --> 00:30:36.224
♪ jesus is calling, ♪
00:30:36.224 --> 00:30:40.295
♪ calling for you ♪
00:30:40.295 --> 00:30:43.164
♪ and for me. ♪
00:30:43.164 --> 00:30:48.002
♪ see, on the portals, ♪
00:30:48.002 --> 00:30:51.572
♪ he's waiting and watching, ♪
00:30:51.572 --> 00:30:55.710
♪ watching for you ♪
00:30:55.710 --> 00:30:58.646
♪ and for me. ♪
00:30:58.646 --> 00:31:02.850
♪ "come home. ♪
00:31:02.850 --> 00:31:06.955
♪ "come home. ♪
00:31:06.955 --> 00:31:11.592
♪ "ye who are weary, ♪
00:31:11.592 --> 00:31:14.996
♪ come home." ♪
00:31:14.996 --> 00:31:19.734
♪ earnestly, tenderly, ♪
00:31:19.734 --> 00:31:23.604
♪ jesus is calling, ♪
00:31:23.604 --> 00:31:27.809
♪ calling, "o sinner, ♪
00:31:27.809 --> 00:31:31.245
♪ come home." ♪
00:31:31.245 --> 00:31:36.117
♪ oh, for the wonderful love ♪
00:31:36.117 --> 00:31:40.621
♪ he has promised, ♪
00:31:40.621 --> 00:31:43.992
♪ promised for you ♪
00:31:43.992 --> 00:31:47.028
♪ and for me. ♪
00:31:47.028 --> 00:31:51.699
♪ and though we have sinned, ♪
00:31:51.699 --> 00:31:55.169
♪ he has mercy and pardon, ♪
00:31:55.169 --> 00:32:00.174
♪ pardon for you ♪
00:32:00.174 --> 00:32:03.177
♪ and for me. ♪
00:32:03.177 --> 00:32:07.448
♪ "come home. ♪
00:32:07.448 --> 00:32:11.552
♪ "come home. ♪
00:32:11.552 --> 00:32:16.190
♪ "ye who are weary, ♪
00:32:16.190 --> 00:32:19.594
♪ come home." ♪
00:32:19.594 --> 00:32:24.332
♪ earnestly, tenderly, ♪
00:32:24.332 --> 00:32:28.202
♪ jesus is calling, ♪
00:32:28.202 --> 00:32:32.407
♪ calling, "o sinner, ♪
00:32:32.407 --> 00:32:35.843
♪ come home." ♪
00:32:35.843 --> 00:32:40.515
♪ earnestly, tenderly, ♪
00:32:40.515 --> 00:32:44.485
♪ jesus is calling, ♪
00:32:44.485 --> 00:32:48.589
♪ calling, "o sinner, ♪
00:32:48.589 --> 00:32:52.460
♪ come home." ♪
00:32:52.460 --> 00:33:01.569
[cheers and applause]
00:33:01.569 --> 00:33:03.838
Yeah.
00:33:03.838 --> 00:33:04.972
[cheers and applause continue]
00:33:04.972 --> 00:33:08.443
Thank you.
00:33:08.443 --> 00:33:10.478
[cheers and applause continue]
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Thank y'all.
00:33:16.684 --> 00:33:18.386
You know, it's odd to be singing these things
00:33:18.386 --> 00:33:20.188
And hear all this applause in a baptist church.
00:33:20.188 --> 00:33:21.789
You didn't say a word, and you didn't make a noise.
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[laughter]
00:33:23.624 --> 00:33:25.359
But we're glad y'all are clapping.
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But--and especially this next song, you know,
00:33:28.830 --> 00:33:31.933
Every time i hear this, it just makes me think of,
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"please stand and turn your hymnal to number 362 for..."
00:33:34.235 --> 00:33:38.306
You know.
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'cause we did that a lot.
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[laughter]
00:33:42.376 --> 00:33:44.579
You know, i think this is one of the songs
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Y'all might can sing along on here.
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[bright music]
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♪ ♪
00:33:50.852 --> 00:33:52.820
♪ standing on the promises of christ, my king, ♪
00:33:52.820 --> 00:33:57.225
♪ through eternal ages, let his praises ring. ♪
00:33:57.225 --> 00:34:01.429
♪ glory in the highest, i will shout and sing, ♪
00:34:01.429 --> 00:34:05.666
♪ standing on the promises of god. ♪
00:34:05.666 --> 00:34:09.904
♪ standing, standing, ♪
00:34:09.904 --> 00:34:14.542
♪ standing on the promises of god, my savior. ♪
00:34:14.542 --> 00:34:18.813
♪ standing, standing, ♪
00:34:18.813 --> 00:34:24.919
♪ i'm standing on the promises of god. ♪
00:34:24.919 --> 00:34:30.358
♪ standing on the promises, i cannot fall, ♪
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♪ listening every moment to the spirit's call, ♪
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♪ resting in my savior as my all in all, ♪
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♪ standing on the promises of god. ♪
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♪ standing, standing, ♪
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♪ standing on the promises of god, my savior. ♪
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♪ standing, standing, ♪
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♪ i'm standing on the promises of god. ♪
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[cheers and applause]
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[lively guitar music]
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♪ ♪
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♪ have you been to jesus for the cleansing power? ♪
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♪ are you washed in the blood of the lamb? ♪
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♪ are you fully trusting in his grace this hour? ♪
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♪ are you washed in the blood of the lamb? ♪
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♪ are you washed... ♪ - ♪ are you washed... ♪
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- ♪ in the blood... ♪ - ♪ in the blood... ♪
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- ♪ in the soul-cleansing blood of the lamb? ♪
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♪ are your garments spotless? ♪
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♪ are they white as snow? ♪
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♪ are you washed in the blood of the lamb? ♪
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♪ lay aside the garments that are stained with sin ♪
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♪ and be washed in the blood of the lamb. ♪
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♪ there's a fountain flowing for the soul unclean. ♪
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♪ oh, be washed in the blood of the lamb. ♪
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♪ are you washed... ♪ - ♪ are you washed... ♪
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- ♪ in the blood... ♪ - ♪ in the blood... ♪
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- ♪ in the soul-cleansing blood of the lamb? ♪
00:36:23.504 --> 00:36:27.408
♪ are your garments spotless? ♪
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♪ are they white as snow? ♪
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♪ are you washed in the blood of the lamb? ♪
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♪ some glad morning when this life is over, ♪
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♪ i'll fly away. ♪
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♪ to a home on god's celestial shore, ♪
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♪ i'll fly away. ♪
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♪ i'll fly away, o glory. ♪
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♪ i'll fly away. ♪
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♪ when i die, hallelujah, by and by, ♪
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♪ i'll fly away. ♪
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Oh, play it, boys.
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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♪ yeah, just a few more weary days, and then ♪
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♪ i'll fly away. ♪
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♪ to a land where joy shall never end, ♪
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♪ i'll fly away. ♪
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♪ yeah, i'll fly away, o glory. ♪
00:38:02.203 --> 00:38:06.841
♪ i'll fly away. ♪
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♪ yeah, when i die, hallelujah, by and by, ♪
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♪ i'll fly away. ♪
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♪ oh, when i die, ♪
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♪ hallelujah, by and by, ♪
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♪ i'll fly ♪
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♪ away. ♪
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[cheers and applause]
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Oh, that's a good one.
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[soft piano music]
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♪ ♪
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- when he finally decided he was gonna do it,
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We got our old baptist hymnal
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And actually went out to our river house,
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Sat on the hearth, and just started going through the pages,
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And it was actually really a very sweet
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And fun time for us.
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Alan: she plays the piano a little bit every now and then
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On some of the old hymns, and she and i just sat down
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And started flipping through the book
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And singing and trying to think
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Of all the ones that we really like
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That we knew our mothers would really enjoy.
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I love those old songs, and it was what it was,
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You know, a gift for my family.
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Mama ruth: i think a lot of people
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Are going to enjoy this.
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And actually, i have a lot of contact with his fans.
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They write to me, and i hear from them.
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They call me and visit me
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Ever since he's been in the business.
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And they have just been real thrilled about this fact
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That he's coming out with his gospel album,
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And i just think it's going to mean so much
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To so many people.
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I really do.
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- i think it has had
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A greater impact on him, probably, than he would admit
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And certainly on our friends and family
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Who have already heard it.
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I mean, so many people have told me--
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And it's been my response too--
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That they wept when they heard these songs.
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And i think it's not only the purity in his voice
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And the simplicity of the production
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And the honesty in his voice,
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But, you know, it's what the songs are saying
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That really, i think, have touched people's hearts.
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Women: we love you, alan!
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- oh, thank you.
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We'll be passing a plate here in a minute.
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Just... [laughter]
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Keep that good feeling.
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[laughs]
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I told my daughters--you know, some of their friends,
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Young friends were coming and all.
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I said, "do they know this is
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Like a church service they're coming to?"
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I don't know; i think they thought
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It was a regular country music concert.
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But anyway,
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Go ahead.
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[laughter]
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[soft guitar music]
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♪ ♪
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♪ what a friend we have in jesus, ♪
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♪ all our sins and griefs to bear. ♪
00:41:26.273 --> 00:41:32.279
♪ and what a privilege to carry ♪
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♪ everything to god in prayer. ♪
00:41:38.786 --> 00:41:44.825
♪ what a peace we often forfeit, ♪
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♪ oh, what needless pain we bear, ♪
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♪ all because we do not carry ♪
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♪ everything to god in prayer. ♪
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♪ have we trials and temptations? ♪
00:42:10.351 --> 00:42:17.491
♪ is there trouble anywhere? ♪
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♪ we should never be discouraged. ♪
00:42:22.896 --> 00:42:29.169
♪ take it to the lord in prayer. ♪
00:42:29.169 --> 00:42:35.509
♪ can we find a friend so faithful ♪
00:42:35.509 --> 00:42:41.849
♪ who will all our sorrows share? ♪
00:42:41.849 --> 00:42:48.188
♪ jesus knows our every weakness. ♪
00:42:48.188 --> 00:42:54.561
♪ take it to the lord ♪
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♪ in prayer. ♪
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[cheers and applause]
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[upbeat music]
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♪ ♪
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♪ yeah, what a fellowship, what a joy divine, ♪
00:43:23.757 --> 00:43:28.162
♪ leaning on the everlasting arms. ♪
00:43:28.162 --> 00:43:32.566
♪ what a blessedness, what a peace is mine, ♪
00:43:32.566 --> 00:43:36.837
♪ leaning on the everlasting arms. ♪
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♪ leaning, leaning, ♪
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♪ safe and secure from all alarms. ♪
00:43:45.579 --> 00:43:49.817
♪ leaning, leaning, ♪
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♪ leaning on the everlasting arms. ♪
00:43:54.021 --> 00:43:59.827
♪ what have i to dread, what have i to fear, ♪
00:43:59.827 --> 00:44:04.198
♪ leaning on the everlasting arms? ♪
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♪ i have blessed peace with my lord so near, ♪
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♪ leaning on the everlasting arms. ♪
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♪ leaning, leaning, ♪
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♪ safe and secure from all alarms. ♪
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♪ leaning, leaning, ♪
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♪ leaning on the everlasting arms. ♪
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All right!
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[cheers and applause]
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[soft piano music]
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♪ ♪
00:44:48.408 --> 00:44:53.981
♪ on a hill far away ♪
00:44:53.981 --> 00:44:58.318
♪ stood an old rugged cross, ♪
00:44:58.318 --> 00:45:02.790
♪ the emblem of suffering ♪
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♪ and shame. ♪
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♪ and i love that old cross ♪
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♪ where the dearest and best ♪
00:45:14.968 --> 00:45:19.273
♪ for a world of lost sinners ♪
00:45:19.273 --> 00:45:23.577
♪ was slain. ♪
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♪ so i'll cherish ♪
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♪ the old rugged cross ♪
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♪ till my trophies ♪
00:45:35.923 --> 00:45:38.091
♪ at last i lay down. ♪
00:45:38.091 --> 00:45:43.931
♪ and i will cling ♪
00:45:43.931 --> 00:45:46.166
♪ to the old rugged cross ♪
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♪ and exchange it someday ♪
00:45:52.539 --> 00:45:56.043
♪ for a crown. ♪
00:45:56.043 --> 00:46:00.981
♪ to that old rugged cross ♪
00:46:00.981 --> 00:46:05.285
♪ i will ever be true, ♪
00:46:05.285 --> 00:46:09.656
♪ its shame and reproach ♪
00:46:09.656 --> 00:46:12.759
♪ gladly bear. ♪
00:46:12.759 --> 00:46:17.664
♪ then he'll call me someday ♪
00:46:17.664 --> 00:46:21.969
♪ to my home far away, ♪
00:46:21.969 --> 00:46:26.006
♪ where his glory ♪
00:46:26.006 --> 00:46:28.475
♪ forever i'll share. ♪
00:46:28.475 --> 00:46:34.248
♪ so i'll cherish ♪
00:46:34.248 --> 00:46:36.483
♪ the old rugged cross ♪
00:46:36.483 --> 00:46:42.656
♪ till my trophies ♪
00:46:42.656 --> 00:46:44.858
♪ at last i lay down. ♪
00:46:44.858 --> 00:46:50.697
♪ yeah, i will cling ♪
00:46:50.697 --> 00:46:53.033
♪ to the old rugged cross ♪
00:46:53.033 --> 00:46:59.273
♪ and exchange it someday ♪
00:46:59.273 --> 00:47:02.709
♪ for a crown. ♪
00:47:02.709 --> 00:47:07.447
♪ yeah, i will cling ♪
00:47:07.447 --> 00:47:09.683
♪ to the old rugged cross ♪
00:47:09.683 --> 00:47:15.889
♪ and exchange it someday ♪
00:47:15.889 --> 00:47:19.626
♪ for a crown. ♪
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[cheers and applause]
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Thank you.
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[reverent music]
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♪ ♪
00:47:40.948 --> 00:47:49.022
♪ o lord, my god, ♪
00:47:49.089 --> 00:47:54.661
♪ when i, in awesome wonder, ♪
00:47:54.661 --> 00:48:00.600
♪ consider all the worlds ♪
00:48:00.600 --> 00:48:05.639
♪ thy hands have made, ♪
00:48:05.639 --> 00:48:11.111
♪ i see the stars, ♪
00:48:11.111 --> 00:48:16.750
♪ i hear the rolling thunder, ♪
00:48:16.750 --> 00:48:22.456
♪ thy power throughout ♪
00:48:22.456 --> 00:48:26.994
♪ the universe displayed, ♪
00:48:26.994 --> 00:48:33.467
♪ then sings my soul, ♪
00:48:33.467 --> 00:48:37.771
♪ my savior, god, to thee, ♪
00:48:37.771 --> 00:48:44.678
♪ "how great thou art. ♪
00:48:44.678 --> 00:48:50.283
♪ how great thou art." ♪
00:48:50.283 --> 00:48:55.689
♪ then sings my soul, ♪
00:48:55.689 --> 00:48:59.893
♪ my savior, god, to thee, ♪
00:48:59.893 --> 00:49:06.700
♪ "how great thou art. ♪
00:49:06.700 --> 00:49:12.172
♪ how great thou art." ♪
00:49:12.172 --> 00:49:18.111
♪ when christ shall come ♪
00:49:18.111 --> 00:49:23.683
♪ with shouts of acclamation ♪
00:49:23.683 --> 00:49:29.389
♪ and take me home, ♪
00:49:29.389 --> 00:49:33.393
♪ what joy shall fill my heart. ♪
00:49:33.393 --> 00:49:40.534
♪ then i shall bow ♪
00:49:40.534 --> 00:49:46.139
♪ in humble adoration ♪
00:49:46.139 --> 00:49:51.678
♪ and there proclaim, ♪
00:49:51.678 --> 00:49:55.916
♪ "my god, how great thou art." ♪
00:49:55.916 --> 00:50:02.589
♪ then sings my soul, ♪
00:50:02.589 --> 00:50:06.827
♪ my savior, god, to thee, ♪
00:50:06.827 --> 00:50:13.567
♪ "how great thou art. ♪
00:50:13.567 --> 00:50:19.506
♪ how great thou art." ♪
00:50:19.506 --> 00:50:24.744
♪ then sings my soul, ♪
00:50:24.744 --> 00:50:28.915
♪ my savior, god, to thee, ♪
00:50:28.915 --> 00:50:35.856
♪ "how great thou art. ♪
00:50:35.856 --> 00:50:41.228
♪ "how great thou art. ♪
00:50:41.228 --> 00:50:46.867
♪ "how great thou art. ♪
00:50:46.867 --> 00:50:52.672
♪ "how great ♪
00:50:52.672 --> 00:50:56.143
♪ thou art." ♪
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[cheers and applause]
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♪ ♪
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The last song on the album's
00:52:16.923 --> 00:52:18.258
Called "i want to stroll over heaven with you."
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And i wasn't really familiar with that song.
00:52:20.627 --> 00:52:22.996
My mother had adopted that
00:52:22.996 --> 00:52:24.664
Since my daddy died a few years ago.
00:52:24.664 --> 00:52:26.333
Somebody played it for her, and she felt like
00:52:26.333 --> 00:52:28.568
There was a connection there for her.
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- it was a song that alan didn't know about.
00:52:30.337 --> 00:52:32.172
I'm sure our daughters told alan about that song.
00:52:32.172 --> 00:52:35.242
Because my husband and i camped for years.
00:52:35.242 --> 00:52:38.144
We were camping down in south georgia at a campground,
00:52:38.144 --> 00:52:41.314
And they had people come in, you know,
00:52:41.314 --> 00:52:43.216
To entertain you at these things.
00:52:43.216 --> 00:52:45.685
And this gospel group came in that night,
00:52:45.685 --> 00:52:48.688
And they sang that song.
00:52:48.688 --> 00:52:51.291
And eugene reached over and touched my hand,
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And he said, "you like that song, don't you?"
00:52:54.194 --> 00:52:56.596
And it was a special song to me from then on.
00:52:56.596 --> 00:52:59.466
And now every time i hear it, i think about,
00:52:59.466 --> 00:53:01.935
I'm gonna stroll over heaven with him one of these days.
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[applause]
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Thank you very much. y'all been very nice tonight.
00:53:08.041 --> 00:53:10.910
We've enjoyed it, and i hope you've heard
00:53:10.910 --> 00:53:13.313
Some songs that you enjoy or remembered
00:53:13.313 --> 00:53:16.349
Or for the first time or whatever.
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We're glad you're with us, and we're gonna do this
00:53:18.285 --> 00:53:21.588
For my mama and daddy gene, who was a musical man,
00:53:21.588 --> 00:53:24.958
And a lot of gospel and religious music
00:53:24.958 --> 00:53:29.596
That i heard growing up was some that he loved.
00:53:29.596 --> 00:53:32.399
[gentle music]
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♪ ♪
00:53:35.402 --> 00:53:40.640
♪ if i surveyed all the good things ♪
00:53:40.640 --> 00:53:44.778
♪ that come to me from above, ♪
00:53:44.778 --> 00:53:48.782
♪ if i could count all the blessings ♪
00:53:48.782 --> 00:53:53.186
♪ from the storehouse of love, ♪
00:53:53.186 --> 00:53:56.856
♪ i'd simply ask for a favor ♪
00:53:56.856 --> 00:54:00.960
♪ of him beyond mortal king, ♪
00:54:00.960 --> 00:54:05.231
♪ and i'm sure that he'd grant it again. ♪
00:54:05.231 --> 00:54:12.739
♪ i want to stroll over heaven ♪
00:54:12.739 --> 00:54:17.477
♪ with you some glad day ♪
00:54:17.477 --> 00:54:20.980
♪ when all our troubles and heartaches ♪
00:54:20.980 --> 00:54:25.318
♪ are vanished away. ♪
00:54:25.318 --> 00:54:29.022
♪ then we'll enjoy the beauty ♪
00:54:29.022 --> 00:54:33.493
♪ where all things are new. ♪
00:54:33.493 --> 00:54:36.996
♪ i want to stroll over heaven with you.
00:54:36.996 --> 00:54:43.236
♪ ♪
00:54:43.236 --> 00:54:57.550
♪ so many places of beauty ♪
00:55:01.221 --> 00:55:05.392
♪ we've longed to see here below, ♪
00:55:05.392 --> 00:55:09.329
♪ but times and treasures have kept us ♪
00:55:09.329 --> 00:55:13.400
♪ from making plans, as you know. ♪
00:55:13.400 --> 00:55:17.370
♪ but come the morning of the rapture, ♪
00:55:17.370 --> 00:55:21.441
♪ together we'll stand anew, ♪
00:55:21.441 --> 00:55:25.445
♪ and then we'll stroll over heaven with you. ♪
00:55:25.445 --> 00:55:33.486
♪ i want to stroll over heaven ♪
00:55:33.486 --> 00:55:38.191
♪ with you some glad day ♪
00:55:38.191 --> 00:55:41.594
♪ when all our troubles and heartaches ♪
00:55:41.594 --> 00:55:45.865
♪ are vanished away. ♪
00:55:45.865 --> 00:55:49.803
♪ then we'll enjoy the beauty ♪
00:55:49.803 --> 00:55:54.240
♪ where all things are new. ♪
00:55:54.240 --> 00:55:57.710
♪ i want to stroll over heaven with you. ♪
00:55:57.710 --> 00:56:04.050
♪ ♪
00:56:04.050 --> 00:56:05.985
♪ i want to stroll over heaven with you. ♪
00:56:05.985 --> 00:56:13.460
♪ ♪
00:56:13.460 --> 00:56:19.532
[cheers and applause]
00:56:19.532 --> 00:56:24.804
[soft music]
00:56:24.871 --> 00:56:29.209
Thank y'all so much.
00:56:29.209 --> 00:56:30.210
You've been very sweet.
00:56:30.210 --> 00:56:31.211
We appreciate it.
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God bless y'all.
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Good night.
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[cheers and applause]
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♪ ♪
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♪precious memories♪
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♪how they linger♪
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♪how they ever flood my soul♪
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Thank you for joining bill and gloria gaither...
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... and their homecoming friends for "precious memories."
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Be sure to watch program as these legendary gospel artists...
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... share more of your favorite songs.
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Bill Gaither - Alan Jackson: Precious Memories

November 30, 2024 | S

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