Bill Gaither - Alan Jackson: Precious Memories

November 30, 2024 | S

Homecoming Friends join Bill and Gloria in this nostalgia-filled video journey.

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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 ♪
  • 00:16:22.037 --> 00:16:24.306
  • ♪ life everlasting ♪
  • 00:16:24.306 --> 00:16:29.978
  • ♪ he passed, ♪
  • 00:16:29.978 --> 00:16:31.847
  • ♪ and we follow him there. ♪
  • 00:16:31.847 --> 00:16:38.287
  • ♪ over us sin no more ♪
  • 00:16:38.287 --> 00:16:41.323
  • ♪ hath dominion, ♪
  • 00:16:41.323 --> 00:16:47.296
  • ♪ for more than conqu'rors ♪
  • 00:16:47.296 --> 00:16:50.466
  • ♪ we are. ♪
  • 00:16:50.466 --> 00:16:54.703
  • ♪ so turn your eyes upon jesus. ♪
  • 00:16:54.703 --> 00:17:02.778
  • ♪ look full in his wonderful face. ♪
  • 00:17:02.778 --> 00:17:10.719
  • ♪ and the things of earth ♪
  • 00:17:10.719 --> 00:17:14.089
  • ♪ will grow strangely dim ♪
  • 00:17:14.089 --> 00:17:19.094
  • ♪ in the light of his glory ♪
  • 00:17:19.094 --> 00:17:23.332
  • ♪ and grace. ♪
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  • ♪ and the things of earth ♪
  • 00:17:27.169 --> 00:17:30.639
  • ♪ will grow strangely dim ♪
  • 00:17:30.639 --> 00:17:37.312
  • ♪ in the light of his glory ♪
  • 00:17:37.312 --> 00:17:43.252
  • ♪ and grace. ♪
  • 00:17:43.252 --> 00:17:52.327
  • [cheers and applause]
  • 00:17:52.327 --> 00:17:56.298
  • Well, when we went in the studio,
  • 00:18:00.068 --> 00:18:03.005
  • I started thinking about some special things to do,
  • 00:18:03.005 --> 00:18:05.941
  • 'cause this was a gift for my mother
  • 00:18:05.941 --> 00:18:07.876
  • And denise's mother and so forth.
  • 00:18:07.876 --> 00:18:10.312
  • So i finally talked my girls
  • 00:18:10.312 --> 00:18:13.582
  • Into coming in and singing on a song.
  • 00:18:13.582 --> 00:18:15.918
  • My wife sang, and my oldest daughter, mattie,
  • 00:18:15.918 --> 00:18:19.788
  • And ali and then dani, the youngest one,
  • 00:18:19.788 --> 00:18:21.857
  • They all came in.
  • 00:18:21.857 --> 00:18:23.258
  • Everybody sang except dani. she chickened out.
  • 00:18:23.258 --> 00:18:25.260
  • [laughter]
  • 00:18:25.260 --> 00:18:26.628
  • So i put her on the album--
  • 00:18:26.628 --> 00:18:28.063
  • Credit as a vocal assistant
  • 00:18:28.063 --> 00:18:30.866
  • 'cause she went and got me a bottle of water
  • 00:18:30.866 --> 00:18:33.302
  • Out of the refrigerator one time.
  • 00:18:33.302 --> 00:18:34.903
  • [laughter]
  • 00:18:34.903 --> 00:18:36.271
  • Got her in there.
  • 00:18:36.271 --> 00:18:37.472
  • But anyway, i begged them to sing tonight,
  • 00:18:37.472 --> 00:18:39.241
  • And they wouldn't do it.
  • 00:18:39.241 --> 00:18:40.342
  • They were scared. audience: aw!
  • 00:18:40.342 --> 00:18:42.077
  • - you know...
  • 00:18:42.077 --> 00:18:43.712
  • I mean, i don't blame them. it's tough.
  • 00:18:43.712 --> 00:18:45.280
  • But they did a good job on the album,
  • 00:18:45.280 --> 00:18:47.349
  • And it's really a treat to have them on there.
  • 00:18:47.349 --> 00:18:49.618
  • I know that a lot of our family appreciates that.
  • 00:18:49.618 --> 00:18:52.054
  • But so we selected somebody to fill in
  • 00:18:52.054 --> 00:18:57.092
  • That still kind of is family
  • 00:18:57.092 --> 00:19:00.128
  • And make a good replacement tonight,
  • 00:19:00.128 --> 00:19:03.799
  • And i want to introduce him now.
  • 00:19:03.799 --> 00:19:05.200
  • This is my nephew from georgia, adam wright,
  • 00:19:05.200 --> 00:19:07.536
  • And his lovely wife, shannon.
  • 00:19:07.536 --> 00:19:09.371
  • [cheers and applause]
  • 00:19:09.371 --> 00:19:14.876
  • They're better known
  • 00:19:14.943 --> 00:19:16.245
  • As the acr/rca recording duo the wrights.
  • 00:19:16.245 --> 00:19:20.182
  • They're working on a career and getting started
  • 00:19:20.182 --> 00:19:22.484
  • And making some good music,
  • 00:19:22.484 --> 00:19:23.986
  • 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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  • ♪ ♪
  • 00:19:31.827 --> 00:19:41.336
  • ♪ 'tis so sweet to trust in jesus ♪
  • 00:19:41.403 --> 00:19:46.808
  • ♪ and to take him at his word, ♪
  • 00:19:46.808 --> 00:19:52.014
  • ♪ just to rest upon his promise ♪
  • 00:19:52.014 --> 00:19:57.185
  • ♪ and to know, "thus saith the lord." ♪
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  • [together] ♪ jesus, jesus, how i trust him. ♪
  • 00:20:02.658 --> 00:20:07.963
  • ♪ how i've proved him o'er and o'er. ♪
  • 00:20:07.963 --> 00:20:13.335
  • ♪ jesus, jesus, precious jesus. ♪
  • 00:20:13.335 --> 00:20:18.707
  • ♪ oh, for grace to trust him more. ♪
  • 00:20:18.707 --> 00:20:25.514
  • Both: ♪ i'm so glad i learned to trust thee, ♪
  • 00:20:25.514 --> 00:20:30.919
  • ♪ precious jesus, savior, friend. ♪
  • 00:20:30.919 --> 00:20:36.325
  • ♪ and i know that thou art with me, ♪
  • 00:20:36.325 --> 00:20:41.797
  • ♪ wilt be with me till the end. ♪
  • 00:20:41.797 --> 00:20:47.302
  • [together] ♪ jesus, jesus, how i trust him. ♪
  • 00:20:47.302 --> 00:20:52.607
  • ♪ how i've proved him o'er and o'er. ♪
  • 00:20:52.607 --> 00:20:57.979
  • ♪ jesus, jesus, precious jesus. ♪
  • 00:20:57.979 --> 00:21:03.352
  • ♪ oh, for grace to trust him more. ♪
  • 00:21:03.352 --> 00:21:12.994
  • - that's the wrights, adam and shannon.
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  • God bless you.
  • 00:21:14.496 --> 00:21:16.198
  • Fine job.
  • 00:21:16.198 --> 00:21:17.299
  • [cheers and applause]
  • 00:21:17.299 --> 00:21:21.370
  • That's one of my sister's boys there. ♪ ♪
  • 00:21:21.370 --> 00:21:25.474
  • - "precious memories," of course, is another old hymn.
  • 00:21:25.474 --> 00:21:28.677
  • I didn't record it on this album,
  • 00:21:28.677 --> 00:21:32.047
  • But when i was looking for a title,
  • 00:21:32.047 --> 00:21:34.182
  • It just stuck out to me because that's what
  • 00:21:34.182 --> 00:21:36.518
  • A lot of these songs are, just memories from growing up
  • 00:21:36.518 --> 00:21:40.288
  • And what they meant to us,
  • 00:21:40.288 --> 00:21:41.823
  • And i just felt strongly about that as a title.
  • 00:21:41.823 --> 00:21:44.860
  • - i do think that the death of both of our fathers
  • 00:21:44.860 --> 00:21:48.063
  • Placed probably an urgency on him that, you know,
  • 00:21:48.063 --> 00:21:50.866
  • "i really need to do this.
  • 00:21:50.866 --> 00:21:52.067
  • I want to do this for my mother."
  • 00:21:52.067 --> 00:21:53.535
  • And certainly, you know, the death of his father
  • 00:21:53.535 --> 00:21:56.004
  • Had a great impact on him
  • 00:21:56.004 --> 00:21:57.572
  • And, if nothing else, just reflecting
  • 00:21:57.572 --> 00:22:01.109
  • On the kind of man he was,
  • 00:22:01.109 --> 00:22:03.145
  • And alan so admired him.
  • 00:22:03.145 --> 00:22:06.047
  • - i didn't know that he was going to do it.
  • 00:22:06.047 --> 00:22:11.153
  • When we got older, i remember him playing
  • 00:22:11.153 --> 00:22:12.454
  • Old jo ann castle on the pianos
  • 00:22:12.454 --> 00:22:14.523
  • And a lot of chuck wagon gang,
  • 00:22:14.523 --> 00:22:17.392
  • Who were a well-known gospel group,
  • 00:22:17.392 --> 00:22:19.694
  • And a lot of those songs
  • 00:22:19.694 --> 00:22:22.964
  • Were played around the house as we grew up.
  • 00:22:22.964 --> 00:22:26.334
  • My sisters-- i had four older sisters--
  • 00:22:26.334 --> 00:22:28.437
  • They all sang in church
  • 00:22:28.437 --> 00:22:30.372
  • And school and that kind of thing.
  • 00:22:30.372 --> 00:22:32.174
  • But, really, we never really sat around the house
  • 00:22:32.174 --> 00:22:37.379
  • Singing on the porch or anything that much.
  • 00:22:37.379 --> 00:22:39.614
  • My mama sang a lot just walking around the house.
  • 00:22:39.614 --> 00:22:42.117
  • Now, daddy never-- you never heard daddy sing.
  • 00:22:42.117 --> 00:22:43.852
  • I saw him singing in church some,
  • 00:22:43.852 --> 00:22:45.220
  • But he didn't move his mouth much.
  • 00:22:45.220 --> 00:22:46.388
  • But-- - [laughs]
  • 00:22:46.388 --> 00:22:47.856
  • - no, i mean, we weren't, like, a musician family.
  • 00:22:47.856 --> 00:22:50.158
  • Nobody played an instrument, i don't guess, that i ever--
  • 00:22:50.158 --> 00:22:52.260
  • Nobody ever learned.
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  • ♪ ♪
  • 00:22:53.562 --> 00:22:56.465
  • Mama ruth: this all came about after my husband passed away.
  • 00:22:56.465 --> 00:23:00.168
  • Well, he hadn't been gone but a short time,
  • 00:23:00.168 --> 00:23:02.070
  • And the children didn't play.
  • 00:23:02.070 --> 00:23:03.972
  • They'd always sung,
  • 00:23:03.972 --> 00:23:05.507
  • But none of them had ever played an instrument.
  • 00:23:05.507 --> 00:23:08.009
  • And after he was gone, they just decided,
  • 00:23:08.009 --> 00:23:10.779
  • "well, this might be a good thing to do."
  • 00:23:10.779 --> 00:23:12.447
  • One of them's husband played the guitar.
  • 00:23:12.447 --> 00:23:15.116
  • And of course, one of my other son-in-laws
  • 00:23:15.116 --> 00:23:16.985
  • Plays the organ and piano real well.
  • 00:23:16.985 --> 00:23:19.521
  • He's an accomplished pianist.
  • 00:23:19.521 --> 00:23:21.590
  • But the others never had played.
  • 00:23:21.590 --> 00:23:25.627
  • - about six years ago, my twin sister, carol, here
  • 00:23:25.694 --> 00:23:29.598
  • Married banks glover,
  • 00:23:29.598 --> 00:23:31.633
  • And it was about six months after daddy gene died,
  • 00:23:31.633 --> 00:23:35.237
  • In the year 2000,
  • 00:23:35.237 --> 00:23:36.838
  • And banks had played guitar
  • 00:23:36.838 --> 00:23:38.373
  • Most of his life since high school.
  • 00:23:38.373 --> 00:23:40.008
  • It was something he liked to do in his spare time.
  • 00:23:40.008 --> 00:23:41.710
  • But none of us girls had ever played instruments.
  • 00:23:41.710 --> 00:23:44.446
  • We had sung a lot, every day all our lives,
  • 00:23:44.446 --> 00:23:47.516
  • But never played instruments.
  • 00:23:47.516 --> 00:23:49.084
  • We all have sunday lunch every week at mama's house,
  • 00:23:49.084 --> 00:23:51.386
  • So they would come over after church on sunday
  • 00:23:51.386 --> 00:23:54.456
  • And pull out their two guitars after lunch
  • 00:23:54.456 --> 00:23:56.892
  • And play some little duets.
  • 00:23:56.892 --> 00:23:58.393
  • And they kept pestering some of the others of us
  • 00:23:58.393 --> 00:24:01.062
  • To join in the band, so they said, "we need a bass.
  • 00:24:01.062 --> 00:24:03.698
  • You got to get a bass and join us."
  • 00:24:03.698 --> 00:24:05.934
  • So they pestered me for a few months,
  • 00:24:05.934 --> 00:24:07.836
  • And i finally broke down and got an electric bass
  • 00:24:07.836 --> 00:24:09.804
  • And started fiddling around with it
  • 00:24:09.804 --> 00:24:11.773
  • And got some pointers from some people,
  • 00:24:11.773 --> 00:24:14.242
  • And, you know, we kind of started learning.
  • 00:24:14.242 --> 00:24:15.977
  • And then later switched to the big upright bass,
  • 00:24:15.977 --> 00:24:20.081
  • Which we think better belongs in a bluegrass band,
  • 00:24:20.081 --> 00:24:22.851
  • But we like it a lot.
  • 00:24:22.851 --> 00:24:24.519
  • And then diane, the oldest sister,
  • 00:24:24.519 --> 00:24:26.087
  • Wanted to join us.
  • 00:24:26.087 --> 00:24:27.622
  • She had an old guitar that was warped
  • 00:24:27.622 --> 00:24:29.424
  • And didn't work anymore,
  • 00:24:29.424 --> 00:24:30.825
  • So we bought her a mandolin,
  • 00:24:30.825 --> 00:24:32.561
  • And she loved it and took lessons on it
  • 00:24:32.561 --> 00:24:34.429
  • And got really good on it
  • 00:24:34.429 --> 00:24:35.730
  • And then, like she does, gets tired of stuff
  • 00:24:35.730 --> 00:24:38.133
  • And wants to try something new,
  • 00:24:38.133 --> 00:24:39.401
  • So she's recently switched
  • 00:24:39.401 --> 00:24:41.469
  • From the mandolin to the banjo
  • 00:24:41.469 --> 00:24:42.971
  • And gotten really good on the banjo,
  • 00:24:42.971 --> 00:24:44.873
  • And it kind of gives a new sound to the group.
  • 00:24:44.873 --> 00:24:47.175
  • And mama ruth here plays the snare drum
  • 00:24:47.175 --> 00:24:49.978
  • And the tambourine and just kind of adds
  • 00:24:49.978 --> 00:24:52.113
  • A little rhythm and color to the group.
  • 00:24:52.113 --> 00:24:53.848
  • We have a good time.
  • 00:24:53.848 --> 00:24:55.016
  • We play at a lot of local events,
  • 00:24:55.016 --> 00:24:56.718
  • Just local gigs, churches and small things.
  • 00:24:56.718 --> 00:24:59.087
  • But we have a good time practicing.
  • 00:24:59.087 --> 00:25:01.456
  • We practice very sunday night over at carol and banks' house,
  • 00:25:01.456 --> 00:25:04.292
  • And it's just a fun thing to keep the family together.
  • 00:25:04.292 --> 00:25:08.029
  • It was a winter day, late january,
  • 00:25:08.029 --> 00:25:10.165
  • About the time he had died,
  • 00:25:10.165 --> 00:25:11.600
  • About two years after he had died, so 2002,
  • 00:25:11.600 --> 00:25:14.469
  • But it was a beautiful sunny day like this
  • 00:25:14.469 --> 00:25:16.805
  • And warm, almost exactly like this,
  • 00:25:16.805 --> 00:25:18.974
  • And mama said, "we ought to go out to the cemetery
  • 00:25:18.974 --> 00:25:21.710
  • "and play for daddy gene.
  • 00:25:21.710 --> 00:25:23.011
  • "we can play 'down yonder.'
  • 00:25:23.011 --> 00:25:24.245
  • That was one of his favorite songs."
  • 00:25:24.245 --> 00:25:26.014
  • So we packed up all the instruments,
  • 00:25:26.014 --> 00:25:27.582
  • Called david to meet us out here,
  • 00:25:27.582 --> 00:25:29.084
  • And did a little concert for daddy gene.
  • 00:25:29.084 --> 00:25:33.054
  • [bright music playing]
  • 00:25:33.054 --> 00:25:36.057
  • ♪ ♪
  • 00:25:36.057 --> 00:26:40.121
  • His whole family was up here - ♪ this for christmas-- home. ♪
  • 00:26:44.459 --> 00:26:47.162
  • The weekend before christmas,
  • 00:26:47.162 --> 00:26:48.596
  • And actually, she was by herself--
  • 00:26:48.596 --> 00:26:51.866
  • Had gotten up that morning, and alan said,
  • 00:26:51.866 --> 00:26:53.935
  • "mother, you know, i have a gift i want to go ahead
  • 00:26:53.935 --> 00:26:55.737
  • "and give to you now so you can listen to it
  • 00:26:55.737 --> 00:26:57.706
  • Without being distracted."
  • 00:26:57.706 --> 00:26:59.307
  • And he said, you know, "i've finally done
  • 00:26:59.307 --> 00:27:02.210
  • The gospel cd that you've wanted for so long."
  • 00:27:02.210 --> 00:27:06.481
  • He had promised me that he would make me one sometime, - we just put the cd on and let it play.
  • 00:27:06.548 --> 00:27:09.217
  • But i had no idea that he was making it
  • 00:27:09.217 --> 00:27:10.885
  • Until we were up here just before christmas.
  • 00:27:10.885 --> 00:27:15.290
  • - well,we were all in there to alan's mopening presents
  • 00:27:15.290 --> 00:27:16.791
  • And things with our family.
  • 00:27:16.791 --> 00:27:18.226
  • And so i just put that on
  • 00:27:18.226 --> 00:27:20.161
  • And said, "here's your present,"
  • 00:27:20.161 --> 00:27:21.396
  • And had the music come out
  • 00:27:21.396 --> 00:27:22.697
  • And handed her the copy of the cd case.
  • 00:27:22.697 --> 00:27:25.633
  • So we sat there and listened to it.
  • 00:27:25.633 --> 00:27:26.901
  • - and i sat there and cried.
  • 00:27:26.901 --> 00:27:28.403
  • [laughter]
  • 00:27:28.403 --> 00:27:30.038
  • - with the first song, "blessed assurance,"
  • 00:27:30.038 --> 00:27:31.773
  • I mean, she--she just wept.
  • 00:27:31.773 --> 00:27:33.575
  • She sat at our bar in our kitchen
  • 00:27:33.575 --> 00:27:36.277
  • And, every--every song, just really wept
  • 00:27:36.277 --> 00:27:41.082
  • And sang along with it
  • 00:27:41.082 --> 00:27:42.751
  • And just kept saying over and over again, you know,
  • 00:27:42.751 --> 00:27:46.287
  • "this is the best gift you could have ever given me."
  • 00:27:46.287 --> 00:27:49.190
  • [joyful music]
  • 00:27:49.190 --> 00:27:52.193
  • ♪ ♪
  • 00:27:52.193 --> 00:27:58.399
  • - ♪ sing the wondrous love of jesus. ♪
  • 00:27:58.399 --> 00:28:03.271
  • ♪ sing his mercy and his grace. ♪
  • 00:28:03.271 --> 00:28:07.776
  • ♪ in the mansions bright and blessed, ♪
  • 00:28:07.776 --> 00:28:12.280
  • ♪ 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. ♪
  • 00:28:38.907 --> 00:28:43.444
  • ♪ soon the pearly gates will open. ♪
  • 00:28:43.444 --> 00:28:48.049
  • ♪ we shall tread the streets of gold. ♪
  • 00:28:48.049 --> 00:28:51.786
  • ♪ 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]
  • 00:29:21.649 --> 00:29:27.789
  • - 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.
  • 00:29:35.930 --> 00:29:38.333
  • - i loved it. i love every one of those songs.
  • 00:29:38.333 --> 00:29:41.536
  • I did a lot of singing in the choir
  • 00:29:41.536 --> 00:29:43.538
  • For a good many years.
  • 00:29:43.538 --> 00:29:45.840
  • When i was younger and going to church,
  • 00:29:45.840 --> 00:29:49.477
  • 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.
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  • 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,
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  • Is just remembering her beautiful voice.
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  • [applause]
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  • [soft piano music]
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • - ♪ softly and tenderly, ♪
  • 00:30:32.420 --> 00:30:36.224
  • ♪ jesus is calling, ♪
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  • ♪ calling for you ♪
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  • ♪ and for me. ♪
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  • ♪ 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 ♪
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  • ♪ 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." ♪
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  • ♪ oh, for the wonderful love ♪
  • 00:31:36.117 --> 00:31:40.621
  • ♪ he has promised, ♪
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  • ♪ promised for you ♪
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  • ♪ 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 ♪
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  • ♪ 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." ♪
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  • [cheers and applause]
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  • Yeah.
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  • [cheers and applause continue]
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  • Thank you.
  • 00:33:08.443 --> 00:33:10.478
  • [cheers and applause continue]
  • 00:33:10.478 --> 00:33:13.548
  • Thank y'all.
  • 00:33:16.684 --> 00:33:18.386
  • You know, it's odd to be singing these things
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  • 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.
  • 00:33:25.359 --> 00:33:28.830
  • But--and especially this next song, you know,
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  • Every time i hear this, it just makes me think of,
  • 00:33:31.933 --> 00:33:34.235
  • "please stand and turn your hymnal to number 362 for..."
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  • You know.
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  • 'cause we did that a lot.
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  • [laughter]
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  • 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, ♪
  • 00:34:30.358 --> 00:34:34.695
  • ♪ listening every moment to the spirit's call, ♪
  • 00:34:34.695 --> 00:34:38.733
  • ♪ resting in my savior as my all in all, ♪
  • 00:34:38.733 --> 00:34:43.271
  • ♪ standing on the promises of god. ♪
  • 00:34:43.271 --> 00:34:47.909
  • ♪ standing, standing, ♪
  • 00:34:47.909 --> 00:34:52.280
  • ♪ standing on the promises of god, my savior. ♪
  • 00:34:52.280 --> 00:34:56.784
  • ♪ standing, standing, ♪
  • 00:34:56.784 --> 00:35:03.157
  • ♪ i'm standing on the promises of god. ♪
  • 00:35:03.157 --> 00:35:12.033
  • [cheers and applause]
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  • [lively guitar music]
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  • ♪ ♪
  • 00:35:21.976 --> 00:35:27.448
  • ♪ have you been to jesus for the cleansing power? ♪
  • 00:35:27.448 --> 00:35:31.752
  • ♪ are you washed in the blood of the lamb? ♪
  • 00:35:31.752 --> 00:35:35.957
  • ♪ are you fully trusting in his grace this hour? ♪
  • 00:35:35.957 --> 00:35:40.061
  • ♪ are you washed in the blood of the lamb? ♪
  • 00:35:40.061 --> 00:35:44.565
  • ♪ are you washed... ♪ - ♪ are you washed... ♪
  • 00:35:44.565 --> 00:35:46.667
  • - ♪ in the blood... ♪ - ♪ in the blood... ♪
  • 00:35:46.667 --> 00:35:48.869
  • - ♪ in the soul-cleansing blood of the lamb? ♪
  • 00:35:48.869 --> 00:35:53.040
  • ♪ are your garments spotless? ♪
  • 00:35:53.040 --> 00:35:55.610
  • ♪ are they white as snow? ♪
  • 00:35:55.610 --> 00:35:57.411
  • ♪ are you washed in the blood of the lamb? ♪
  • 00:35:57.411 --> 00:36:01.916
  • ♪ lay aside the garments that are stained with sin ♪
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  • ♪ and be washed in the blood of the lamb. ♪
  • 00:36:06.220 --> 00:36:10.591
  • ♪ there's a fountain flowing for the soul unclean. ♪
  • 00:36:10.591 --> 00:36:14.862
  • ♪ oh, be washed in the blood of the lamb. ♪
  • 00:36:14.862 --> 00:36:19.066
  • ♪ are you washed... ♪ - ♪ are you washed... ♪
  • 00:36:19.066 --> 00:36:21.502
  • - ♪ in the blood... ♪ - ♪ in the blood... ♪
  • 00:36:21.502 --> 00:36:23.504
  • - ♪ in the soul-cleansing blood of the lamb? ♪
  • 00:36:23.504 --> 00:36:27.408
  • ♪ are your garments spotless? ♪
  • 00:36:27.408 --> 00:36:30.044
  • ♪ are they white as snow? ♪
  • 00:36:30.044 --> 00:36:31.879
  • ♪ are you washed in the blood of the lamb? ♪
  • 00:36:31.879 --> 00:36:36.884
  • ♪ some glad morning when this life is over, ♪
  • 00:36:36.884 --> 00:36:41.155
  • ♪ i'll fly away. ♪
  • 00:36:41.155 --> 00:36:45.526
  • ♪ to a home on god's celestial shore, ♪
  • 00:36:45.526 --> 00:36:49.497
  • ♪ i'll fly away. ♪
  • 00:36:49.497 --> 00:36:54.068
  • ♪ i'll fly away, o glory. ♪
  • 00:36:54.068 --> 00:36:58.472
  • ♪ i'll fly away. ♪
  • 00:36:58.472 --> 00:37:02.543
  • ♪ when i die, hallelujah, by and by, ♪
  • 00:37:02.543 --> 00:37:07.048
  • ♪ 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 ♪
  • 00:37:44.985 --> 00:37:49.523
  • ♪ i'll fly away. ♪
  • 00:37:49.523 --> 00:37:53.928
  • ♪ to a land where joy shall never end, ♪
  • 00:37:53.928 --> 00:37:57.998
  • ♪ i'll fly away. ♪
  • 00:37:57.998 --> 00:38:02.203
  • ♪ yeah, i'll fly away, o glory. ♪
  • 00:38:02.203 --> 00:38:06.841
  • ♪ i'll fly away. ♪
  • 00:38:06.841 --> 00:38:11.011
  • ♪ yeah, when i die, hallelujah, by and by, ♪
  • 00:38:11.011 --> 00:38:15.416
  • ♪ i'll fly away. ♪
  • 00:38:15.416 --> 00:38:19.653
  • ♪ oh, when i die, ♪
  • 00:38:19.653 --> 00:38:21.288
  • ♪ hallelujah, by and by, ♪
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  • ♪ i'll fly ♪
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  • ♪ away. ♪
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  • [cheers and applause]
  • 00:38:42.543 --> 00:38:54.288
  • Oh, that's a good one.
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  • [soft piano music]
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  • ♪ ♪
  • 00:39:04.231 --> 00:39:09.170
  • - 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.
  • 00:39:40.401 --> 00:39:42.203
  • Mama ruth: i think a lot of people
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  • Are going to enjoy this.
  • 00:39:43.404 --> 00:39:44.839
  • And actually, i have a lot of contact with his fans.
  • 00:39:44.839 --> 00:39:47.675
  • They write to me, and i hear from them.
  • 00:39:47.675 --> 00:39:49.743
  • They call me and visit me
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  • Ever since he's been in the business.
  • 00:39:51.579 --> 00:39:53.180
  • And they have just been real thrilled about this fact
  • 00:39:53.180 --> 00:39:55.616
  • That he's coming out with his gospel album,
  • 00:39:55.616 --> 00:39:57.618
  • And i just think it's going to mean so much
  • 00:39:57.618 --> 00:39:59.220
  • To so many people.
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  • I really do.
  • 00:40:00.387 --> 00:40:01.689
  • - i think it has had
  • 00:40:01.689 --> 00:40:03.290
  • A greater impact on him, probably, than he would admit
  • 00:40:03.290 --> 00:40:06.760
  • And certainly on our friends and family
  • 00:40:06.760 --> 00:40:08.996
  • Who have already heard it.
  • 00:40:08.996 --> 00:40:10.264
  • I mean, so many people have told me--
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  • And it's been my response too--
  • 00:40:14.034 --> 00:40:15.436
  • That they wept when they heard these songs.
  • 00:40:15.436 --> 00:40:18.339
  • And i think it's not only the purity in his voice
  • 00:40:18.339 --> 00:40:22.476
  • And the simplicity of the production
  • 00:40:22.476 --> 00:40:24.879
  • And the honesty in his voice,
  • 00:40:24.879 --> 00:40:26.647
  • 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.
  • 00:40:37.091 --> 00:40:39.693
  • We'll be passing a plate here in a minute.
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  • Just... [laughter]
  • 00:40:41.262 --> 00:40:42.530
  • Keep that good feeling.
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  • [laughs]
  • 00:40:45.065 --> 00:40:49.003
  • I told my daughters--you know, some of their friends,
  • 00:40:49.069 --> 00:40:51.772
  • Young friends were coming and all.
  • 00:40:51.772 --> 00:40:52.773
  • I said, "do they know this is
  • 00:40:52.773 --> 00:40:54.108
  • Like a church service they're coming to?"
  • 00:40:54.108 --> 00:40:55.576
  • I don't know; i think they thought
  • 00:40:55.576 --> 00:40:57.311
  • It was a regular country music concert.
  • 00:40:57.311 --> 00:40:59.179
  • But anyway,
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  • Go ahead.
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  • [laughter]
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  • [soft guitar music]
  • 00:41:05.486 --> 00:41:08.489
  • ♪ ♪
  • 00:41:08.489 --> 00:41:16.030
  • ♪ what a friend we have in jesus, ♪
  • 00:41:19.867 --> 00:41:26.273
  • ♪ all our sins and griefs to bear. ♪
  • 00:41:26.273 --> 00:41:32.279
  • ♪ and what a privilege to carry ♪
  • 00:41:32.279 --> 00:41:38.786
  • ♪ everything to god in prayer. ♪
  • 00:41:38.786 --> 00:41:44.825
  • ♪ what a peace we often forfeit, ♪
  • 00:41:44.825 --> 00:41:51.131
  • ♪ oh, what needless pain we bear, ♪
  • 00:41:51.131 --> 00:41:57.471
  • ♪ all because we do not carry ♪
  • 00:41:57.471 --> 00:42:03.911
  • ♪ everything to god in prayer. ♪
  • 00:42:03.911 --> 00:42:10.351
  • ♪ have we trials and temptations? ♪
  • 00:42:10.351 --> 00:42:17.491
  • ♪ is there trouble anywhere? ♪
  • 00:42:17.491 --> 00:42:22.896
  • ♪ 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 ♪
  • 00:42:54.561 --> 00:42:58.332
  • ♪ in prayer. ♪
  • 00:42:58.332 --> 00:43:04.838
  • [cheers and applause]
  • 00:43:04.838 --> 00:43:10.544
  • [upbeat music]
  • 00:43:13.947 --> 00:43:16.950
  • ♪ ♪
  • 00:43:16.950 --> 00:43:23.757
  • ♪ 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. ♪
  • 00:43:36.837 --> 00:43:41.141
  • ♪ leaning, leaning, ♪
  • 00:43:41.141 --> 00:43:45.579
  • ♪ safe and secure from all alarms. ♪
  • 00:43:45.579 --> 00:43:49.817
  • ♪ leaning, leaning, ♪
  • 00:43:49.817 --> 00:43:54.021
  • ♪ 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? ♪
  • 00:44:04.198 --> 00:44:08.402
  • ♪ i have blessed peace with my lord so near, ♪
  • 00:44:08.402 --> 00:44:12.906
  • ♪ leaning on the everlasting arms. ♪
  • 00:44:12.906 --> 00:44:17.211
  • ♪ leaning, leaning, ♪
  • 00:44:17.211 --> 00:44:21.482
  • ♪ safe and secure from all alarms. ♪
  • 00:44:21.482 --> 00:44:25.886
  • ♪ leaning, leaning, ♪
  • 00:44:25.886 --> 00:44:30.124
  • ♪ leaning on the everlasting arms. ♪
  • 00:44:30.124 --> 00:44:38.732
  • All right!
  • 00:44:38.732 --> 00:44:40.400
  • [cheers and applause]
  • 00:44:40.400 --> 00:44:45.339
  • [soft piano music]
  • 00:44:45.405 --> 00:44:48.408
  • ♪ ♪
  • 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 ♪
  • 00:45:02.790 --> 00:45:06.794
  • ♪ and shame. ♪
  • 00:45:06.794 --> 00:45:10.631
  • ♪ and i love that old cross ♪
  • 00:45:10.631 --> 00:45:14.968
  • ♪ 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. ♪
  • 00:45:23.577 --> 00:45:27.481
  • ♪ so i'll cherish ♪
  • 00:45:27.481 --> 00:45:29.783
  • ♪ the old rugged cross ♪
  • 00:45:29.783 --> 00:45:35.923
  • ♪ 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 ♪
  • 00:45:46.166 --> 00:45:52.539
  • ♪ 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 ♪
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  • ♪ 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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  • ♪ ♪
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  • ♪ o lord, my god, ♪
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  • ♪ when i, in awesome wonder, ♪
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  • ♪ consider all the worlds ♪
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  • ♪ thy hands have made, ♪
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  • ♪ i see the stars, ♪
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  • ♪ i hear the rolling thunder, ♪
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  • ♪ thy power throughout ♪
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  • ♪ the universe displayed, ♪
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  • ♪ then sings my soul, ♪
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  • ♪ my savior, god, to thee, ♪
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  • ♪ "how great thou art. ♪
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  • ♪ how great thou art." ♪
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  • ♪ then sings my soul, ♪
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  • ♪ my savior, god, to thee, ♪
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  • ♪ "how great thou art. ♪
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  • ♪ how great thou art." ♪
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  • ♪ when christ shall come ♪
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  • ♪ with shouts of acclamation ♪
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  • ♪ and take me home, ♪
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  • ♪ what joy shall fill my heart. ♪
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  • ♪ then i shall bow ♪
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  • ♪ in humble adoration ♪
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  • ♪ and there proclaim, ♪
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  • ♪ "my god, how great thou art." ♪
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  • ♪ then sings my soul, ♪
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  • ♪ my savior, god, to thee, ♪
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  • ♪ "how great thou art. ♪
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  • ♪ how great thou art." ♪
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  • ♪ then sings my soul, ♪
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  • ♪ my savior, god, to thee, ♪
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  • ♪ "how great thou art. ♪
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  • ♪ "how great thou art. ♪
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  • ♪ "how great thou art. ♪
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  • ♪ "how great ♪
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  • ♪ thou art." ♪
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  • [cheers and applause]
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • The last song on the album's
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  • Called "i want to stroll over heaven with you."
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  • And i wasn't really familiar with that song.
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  • My mother had adopted that
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  • Since my daddy died a few years ago.
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  • Somebody played it for her, and she felt like
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  • There was a connection there for her.
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  • - it was a song that alan didn't know about.
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  • I'm sure our daughters told alan about that song.
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  • Because my husband and i camped for years.
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  • We were camping down in south georgia at a campground,
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  • And they had people come in, you know,
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  • To entertain you at these things.
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  • And this gospel group came in that night,
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  • And they sang that song.
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  • And eugene reached over and touched my hand,
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  • And he said, "you like that song, don't you?"
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  • And it was a special song to me from then on.
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  • And now every time i hear it, i think about,
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  • 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.
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  • We've enjoyed it, and i hope you've heard
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  • Some songs that you enjoy or remembered
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  • Or for the first time or whatever.
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  • We're glad you're with us, and we're gonna do this
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  • For my mama and daddy gene, who was a musical man,
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  • And a lot of gospel and religious music
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  • That i heard growing up was some that he loved.
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  • [gentle music]
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • ♪ if i surveyed all the good things ♪
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  • ♪ that come to me from above, ♪
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  • ♪ if i could count all the blessings ♪
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  • ♪ from the storehouse of love, ♪
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  • ♪ i'd simply ask for a favor ♪
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  • ♪ of him beyond mortal king, ♪
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  • ♪ and i'm sure that he'd grant it again. ♪
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  • ♪ i want to stroll over heaven ♪
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  • ♪ with you some glad day ♪
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  • ♪ when all our troubles and heartaches ♪
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  • ♪ are vanished away. ♪
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  • ♪ then we'll enjoy the beauty ♪
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  • ♪ where all things are new. ♪
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  • ♪ i want to stroll over heaven with you.
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • ♪ so many places of beauty ♪
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  • ♪ we've longed to see here below, ♪
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  • ♪ but times and treasures have kept us ♪
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  • ♪ from making plans, as you know. ♪
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  • ♪ but come the morning of the rapture, ♪
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  • ♪ together we'll stand anew, ♪
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  • ♪ and then we'll stroll over heaven with you. ♪
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  • ♪ i want to stroll over heaven ♪
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  • ♪ with you some glad day ♪
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  • ♪ when all our troubles and heartaches ♪
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  • ♪ are vanished away. ♪
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  • ♪ then we'll enjoy the beauty ♪
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  • ♪ where all things are new. ♪
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  • ♪ i want to stroll over heaven with you. ♪
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • ♪ i want to stroll over heaven with you. ♪
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • [cheers and applause]
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  • [soft music]
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  • Thank y'all so much.
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  • You've been very sweet.
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  • 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...
  • 00:57:16.923 --> 00:57:19.425
  • ... 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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