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Gaither Gospel Hour | The Best of Sandi Patty | Gaither Gospel Hour | September 1, 2025
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- 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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- - ♪ come on and join. ♪
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- - sandi patty is among the most highly acclaimed
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- Female vocalists in gospel music history.
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- Once you hear that voice, you will never forget it.
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- - ♪ all the world will hear... ♪
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- - this five-time grammy winner
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- Was introduced to the world in 1986
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- When her rendition of the star-spangled banner
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- Played on national television
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- During the rededication of the statue of liberty.
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- - ♪ for the land of the free... ♪
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- - those moments forever changed the future
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- Of this powerhouse soprano.
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- But what seemed like overnight success
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- Was backed by years and years of great training.
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- Sandi grew up just down the road from gloria and me,
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- And she was raised in a wonderful family of musicians.
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- After graduating from anderson university,
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- She was destined to use her incredible gift
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- To touch untold millions of individuals around the world.
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- Winner of 40 dove awards, 4 billboard music awards,
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- A gospel music hall of fame inductee,
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- And the 2004 indiana living legend,
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- Have sold more than 11 million copies.
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- - ♪ 'cause we're in the right place... ♪
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- - today sandi patty is here with us,
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- And we are going to learn a whole lot more
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- About her musical journey
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- And get to know the sweet lady behind that flawless voice.
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- I'm bill gaither,
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- And i am pleased to welcome you to the best of sandi patty.
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- - ♪ the sky shall unfold, ♪
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- ♪ preparing his entrance. ♪
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- ♪ the stars shall applaud him ♪
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- ♪ with thunders of praise. ♪
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- ♪ the sweet light in his eyes ♪
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- ♪ shall... ♪
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- ♪ shall enhance ♪
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- ♪ those awaiting, ♪
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- ♪ and we shall behold him ♪
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- ♪ then face-to-face. ♪
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- ♪ we shall behold him. ♪
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- ♪ yes, we shall behold him ♪
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- ♪ face-to-face ♪
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- ♪ in all of his glory. ♪
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- ♪ we shall behold him. ♪
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- ♪ we shall behold him ♪
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- ♪ face-to-face, ♪
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- ♪ our savior and lord. ♪
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- ♪ and the angels ♪
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- ♪ shall sound ♪
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- ♪ the shout of his coming. ♪
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- ♪ and the sleeping shall rise ♪
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- ♪ from... ♪
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- ♪ from their slumbering place. ♪
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- ♪ and those who remain shall-- ♪
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- ♪ we shall be changed ♪
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- ♪ in a moment, ♪
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- ♪ and we shall behold him ♪
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- ♪ then face-to-face. ♪
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- ♪ we shall behold him. ♪
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- ♪ oh, yes, ♪
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- ♪ we shall behold him ♪
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- ♪ face-to-face ♪
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- ♪ in all of his glory. ♪
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- ♪ we shall behold him. ♪
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- ♪ yes, we shall behold him ♪
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- ♪ face-to-face, ♪
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- ♪ my savior and lord. ♪
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- ♪ and we shall behold him, ♪
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- ♪ our savior and lord. ♪
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- ♪ savior ♪
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- ♪ and lord. ♪
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- [cheers and applause]
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- - and sandi patty...
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- You had to be thrilled with that setting, right?
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- - that was a beautiful, beautiful setting,
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- The indiana roof.
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- But i was thinking,
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- "man, a lot of life has been lived since that."
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- - to do this taping today in this room--
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- This is a very historic room because this is where the--
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- All the homecoming stuff started,
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- And you were in many of the early ones too.
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- - absolutely, and i actually started also in this room,
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- Doing a lot of studio work in college,
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- And coming in here and doing some orchestra stuff,
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- And so this has great sentimental value to me.
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- One thing you got to say about you is,
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- You're one of the hardest-working people
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- I have ever-- i've ever known.
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- When it comes to singing, you were in here, you know,
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- Early in the morning, late at night, singing,
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- And i looked in there, and i said,
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- "now, that's sandi?"
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- They said, "yeah."
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- "boy, she's good."
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- I remember afterwards i said,
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- "would you like to go with us this fall?"
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- - and i said, "let me pray about it.
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- Yes."
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- [laughter]
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- And i tell you what.
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- It was just-- it's been a fabulous journey.
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- And so often, bill, when i do interviews or whatever,
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- You and gloria are part of my story
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- Because so often people say, "how did you get started?"
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- "well, you know, i sang all my life with my family,
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- But professionally--"
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- I was a little kid at anderson university--
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- "bill said to me one day,
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- "'hey, would you be interested in going on the road?'
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- "and i said, 'let me pray about it.
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- Yes.'"
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- It was a wonderful season of you guys mentoring me
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- When you maybe didn't even realize
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- That you were mentoring me.
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- But i would watch you,
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- And i would watch you be so real onstage.
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- Same the way you were offstage,
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- And i thought, "you know what?
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- I want to emulate that."
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- - and we took you all over.
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- We went to a lot of interesting places,
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- But the night at the kennedy center--
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- This was big-time stuff for us,
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- But i tell you what.
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- You helped class it up.
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- [laughter]
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- And to introduce you that night,
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- I thought we did something pretty clever.
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- - well, you're always clever.
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- You're always the king of the side door.
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- This is what i call you.
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- - so--you know what?
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- In all fairness, i thought,
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- "now, how am i going to slip this semiclassical singer
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- In this country setting?"
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- So i thought maybe the best way to do it was what we did.
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- Let's watch it, okay?
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- And here's the song that sandi [clears throat]
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- Backed me up on back in, uh... back in those days.
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- And sandi, i'll sing it, and you just do your backup.
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- You just do your backup part.
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- - can i stand right here?
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- - no, no, you can stand right here close.
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- ♪ it's the right place and the right time, ♪
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- ♪ meeting in obedience to his word. ♪
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- - ♪ word... ♪
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- - ♪ its too loud. ♪
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- ♪ in the right place... ♪
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- You're just a backup singer, okay?
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- ♪ and the right time. ♪
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- Right time.
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- - ♪ right time. ♪
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- - ♪ not a thing against my brother. ♪
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- ♪ we're just-- ♪
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- Sing it.
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- ♪ here to love each other. ♪
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- - i think you know it.
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- - ♪ in the right place ♪
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- - i think you can do it by yourself.
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- - ♪ at the right time, ♪
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- ♪ lifting hearts and hands in one accord. ♪
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- ♪ it's the right place at the right time, ♪
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- ♪ anticipating good things from you, lord. ♪
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- ♪ what a joy to be here ♪
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- ♪ in your presence one more time, ♪
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- ♪ pressing forward, ♪
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- ♪ leaving all life's troubles far behind. ♪
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- ♪ 'cause we're in the right place... ♪
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- - ♪ in the right place... ♪
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- - ♪ at the right time... ♪
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- - ♪ anticipating good things from you, lord. ♪
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- ♪ it's the right place at the right time. ♪
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- ♪ we're meeting in obedience to your word. ♪
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- - ♪ in the right place... ♪
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- ♪ at the right time... ♪
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- - ♪ at the right time... ♪
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- ♪ not a thing against my brother. ♪
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- ♪ oh, we're just here to love each other. ♪
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- - ♪ in the right place... ♪
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- - ♪ in the right place ♪
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- - ♪ at the right time... ♪
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- ♪ lifting hearts and hands in one accord. ♪
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- ♪ in the right place ♪
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- ♪ in the right place... ♪
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- - ♪ at the right time... ♪
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- - ♪ at the right time... ♪
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- ♪ anticipating good things from you, lord. ♪
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- ♪ thinking on the things ♪
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- ♪ that make us strong and help us grow. ♪
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- ♪ we can dare to risk and reach and stumble ♪
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- ♪ when we know, ♪
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- ♪ 'cause we're in the right place ♪
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- ♪ at the right time, ♪
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- ♪ anticipating good things from you, lord! ♪
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- [cheers and applause]
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- How fun is that?
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- Did you see how high mark lowry was kicking his feet?
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- - sooner or later, mark is gonna get in on the act, right?
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- - sooner or later.
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- That's funny.
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- That's a fun one.
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- - sandi, you were at a very historic place
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- With us in nashville for the farewell performance
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- Of the cathedral quartet.
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- - yeah.
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- - little did we know when we did it that night
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- That even before the video came out,
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- Glen payne had cancer.
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- - isn't that something?
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- What a sweet night that was.
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- My favorite part of that night was just glen and george,
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- Sitting on the edge of the stage,
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- Just the two of them, talking.
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- That was amazing.
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- I remember glen saying that he's got--
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- His next career, he's gonna be at wal-mart,
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- And he's already practicing.
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- - yeah, he was gonna be a wal-mart greeter.
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- But how special to be part of that.
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- And, you know, growing up, my dad was in a gospel quartet,
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- So when the cathedrals called and said, you know,
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- "can you do something kind of southern gospel?"
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- Just kind of went back and pulled out
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- Some of those old gospel songs i had heard my dad sing.
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- - you met george and glen first
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- At the praisegathering in indianapolis.
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- - yes.
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- They were so amazing.
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- And george, maybe-- present company excluded--
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- Maybe the best quartet bass.
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- - no doubt. no doubt.
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- - and, you know, often i thought--
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- And i don't know if he ever did this,
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- But i often wanted to hear him do a classical aria
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- Because his tone was just equal to none.
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- - i've often said about george,
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- He was not a bass singer;
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- He was just an incredible singer--
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- - yes, exactly.
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- - who had some low notes.
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- - that's exactly right.
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- And he knew how to program, and he knew how to relate,
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- And, oh, and sing so well.
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- - and, secondly, he was such a personable human being.
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- - yes, very much.
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- - did you feel loved when you around him?
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- - so loved.
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- So loved.
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- And i would love to make him laugh
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- Because his laugh was the best laugh ever.
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- - well, let's go to nashville,
- 00:17:56.198 --> 00:17:57.966
- And george is gonna introduce you
- 00:17:57.966 --> 00:17:59.668
- As part of their final farewell concert.
- 00:17:59.668 --> 00:18:03.605
- - i guess it was 15, 16 years ago,
- 00:18:03.605 --> 00:18:06.108
- Maybe even a little bit longer,
- 00:18:06.108 --> 00:18:08.410
- But bill and gloria had invited us
- 00:18:08.410 --> 00:18:11.346
- To the praisegathering in indianapolis,
- 00:18:11.346 --> 00:18:13.615
- And 10,000 people.
- 00:18:13.615 --> 00:18:17.085
- And we've been quartetting all of our lives,
- 00:18:17.085 --> 00:18:19.121
- And hadn't run into many soloists back in those days.
- 00:18:19.121 --> 00:18:25.260
- And so that night, we were sitting in the audience,
- 00:18:25.260 --> 00:18:27.796
- And bill gaither introduced a young lady,
- 00:18:27.796 --> 00:18:31.366
- And she went up and sang.
- 00:18:31.366 --> 00:18:34.903
- And glen and i looked at each other, and we said,
- 00:18:34.903 --> 00:18:37.439
- "we've never heard a voice like that."
- 00:18:37.439 --> 00:18:42.377
- And we became one of her biggest fans.
- 00:18:42.377 --> 00:18:48.016
- And down through the years, and down through the years,
- 00:18:48.016 --> 00:18:51.353
- I still say, "i've never heard a voice like this."
- 00:18:51.353 --> 00:18:55.424
- Would you welcome miss sandi patty?
- 00:18:55.424 --> 00:18:57.292
- [applause]
- 00:18:57.292 --> 00:19:07.903
- ♪ farther along, we'll... ♪
- 00:19:11.573 --> 00:19:22.217
- ♪ we're gonna know all about it. ♪
- 00:19:22.217 --> 00:19:31.693
- ♪ and farther along, we'll... ♪
- 00:19:31.693 --> 00:19:41.703
- ♪ we're gonna understand why. ♪
- 00:19:41.703 --> 00:19:51.046
- ♪ come on and cheer up, my brother. ♪
- 00:19:51.046 --> 00:20:01.323
- ♪ live in, live in the sunshine. ♪
- 00:20:01.323 --> 00:20:09.298
- ♪ and then we'll understand it, ♪
- 00:20:09.298 --> 00:20:16.171
- ♪ oh, yes, we will, all by and by. ♪
- 00:20:16.171 --> 00:20:23.545
- ♪ all by and by. ♪
- 00:20:23.545 --> 00:20:28.850
- ♪ farther along, we'll... ♪
- 00:20:28.850 --> 00:20:36.725
- ♪ we're gonna know all about it. ♪
- 00:20:36.725 --> 00:20:44.566
- ♪ farther along, we'll... ♪
- 00:20:44.566 --> 00:20:51.907
- ♪ we're gonna understand why. ♪
- 00:20:51.907 --> 00:20:59.214
- ♪ come on and cheer up ♪
- 00:20:59.214 --> 00:21:01.183
- - ♪ ooh, ooh, ooh. ♪
- 00:21:01.183 --> 00:21:05.454
- - go ahead.
- 00:21:05.454 --> 00:21:06.788
- Go ahead, now come on.
- 00:21:06.788 --> 00:21:09.424
- ♪ cheer up, my brother, ♪
- 00:21:09.424 --> 00:21:17.766
- ♪ my brother and sister. ♪
- 00:21:17.766 --> 00:21:20.235
- ♪ and live in, live in the sunshine. ♪
- 00:21:20.235 --> 00:21:26.241
- ♪ and then we'll understand it. ♪
- 00:21:26.241 --> 00:21:32.981
- ♪ we gotta sing it again. ♪
- 00:21:32.981 --> 00:21:34.583
- ♪ we'll understand. ♪
- 00:21:34.583 --> 00:21:40.222
- ♪ sing it; sing it; sing it. ♪
- 00:21:40.222 --> 00:21:42.891
- ♪ we'll understand it ♪
- 00:21:42.891 --> 00:21:52.300
- ♪ all by and by. ♪
- 00:21:52.300 --> 00:22:02.611
- ♪ high. ♪
- 00:22:02.611 --> 00:22:05.414
- ♪ high. ♪
- 00:22:05.414 --> 00:22:10.919
- ♪ whoa, by and by. ♪
- 00:22:10.919 --> 00:22:21.863
- [applause]
- 00:22:21.863 --> 00:22:29.604
- ♪ by and by, ♪
- 00:22:29.604 --> 00:22:31.039
- ♪ when the morning comes, ♪
- 00:22:31.039 --> 00:22:32.874
- ♪ when the saints of god are gathered home, ♪
- 00:22:32.874 --> 00:22:36.745
- ♪ we will tell the story how we've overcome. ♪
- 00:22:36.745 --> 00:22:40.549
- ♪ and we'll understand it better ♪
- 00:22:40.549 --> 00:22:42.451
- ♪ by and by, by and by. ♪
- 00:22:42.451 --> 00:22:45.086
- ♪ by and by, ♪
- 00:22:45.086 --> 00:22:46.721
- ♪ when the morning comes, ♪
- 00:22:46.721 --> 00:22:48.890
- ♪ when the saints of god are gathered home, ♪
- 00:22:48.890 --> 00:22:52.093
- ♪ we will tell the story how we've overcome. ♪
- 00:22:52.093 --> 00:22:55.797
- ♪ and we'll understand it better, ♪
- 00:22:55.797 --> 00:22:57.866
- ♪ we'll understand it better, ♪
- 00:22:57.866 --> 00:23:00.068
- ♪ we'll understand it better ♪
- 00:23:00.068 --> 00:23:03.872
- ♪ by and by. ♪
- 00:23:03.872 --> 00:23:14.616
- ♪ by and-- ♪
- 00:23:14.616 --> 00:23:18.487
- I've always wanted to do this.
- 00:23:18.487 --> 00:23:20.522
- I'm gonna go this way.
- 00:23:20.522 --> 00:23:22.457
- You go that way.
- 00:23:22.457 --> 00:23:23.825
- All right?
- 00:23:23.825 --> 00:23:24.826
- I'll point.
- 00:23:24.826 --> 00:23:26.127
- - ♪ by. ♪
- 00:23:26.127 --> 00:23:43.245
- I sung with sandi patty.
- 00:23:36.171 --> 00:23:45.514
- - that makes me so happy.
- 00:23:45.514 --> 00:23:49.551
- [laughter]
- 00:23:49.551 --> 00:23:52.354
- - was that a night?
- 00:23:52.354 --> 00:23:53.455
- - i had forgotten that george was on--
- 00:23:53.455 --> 00:23:56.391
- - look at him!
- 00:23:56.391 --> 00:23:57.859
- - oh!
- 00:23:57.859 --> 00:24:00.028
- Oh, that just makes me so happy.
- 00:24:00.028 --> 00:24:05.133
- - good memories, right?
- 00:24:05.133 --> 00:24:06.668
- - very good memories.
- 00:24:06.668 --> 00:24:08.136
- - and to see george and glen into that so much,
- 00:24:08.136 --> 00:24:10.472
- Did you see roger bennett-- - yes!
- 00:24:10.472 --> 00:24:12.007
- - in the middle of the thing, dancing?
- 00:24:12.007 --> 00:24:14.242
- - oh, i love that.
- 00:24:14.242 --> 00:24:17.012
- - ♪ you ask me why ♪
- 00:24:17.012 --> 00:24:21.583
- ♪ my heart keeps singing, ♪
- 00:24:21.583 --> 00:24:26.288
- ♪ why i can sing ♪
- 00:24:26.288 --> 00:24:30.091
- ♪ when things go wrong. ♪
- 00:24:30.091 --> 00:24:35.797
- ♪ but since i found ♪
- 00:24:35.797 --> 00:24:40.368
- ♪ the source of music, ♪
- 00:24:40.368 --> 00:24:45.807
- ♪ i just can't help it. ♪
- 00:24:45.807 --> 00:24:49.244
- ♪ god gave the song. ♪
- 00:24:49.244 --> 00:24:57.085
- ♪ doo-doo-doo. ♪
- 00:24:57.085 --> 00:25:01.823
- ♪ doo-doo-doo-doo. ♪
- 00:25:01.823 --> 00:25:06.795
- ♪ doo-doo-doo. ♪
- 00:25:06.795 --> 00:25:11.600
- ♪ ooh-ooh-ooh. ♪
- 00:25:11.600 --> 00:25:13.702
- ♪ but since i found ♪
- 00:25:13.702 --> 00:25:17.739
- ♪ the source of music, ♪
- 00:25:17.739 --> 00:25:23.078
- ♪ i just can't help it, ♪
- 00:25:23.078 --> 00:25:27.349
- ♪ god gave the song. ♪
- 00:25:27.349 --> 00:25:34.689
- ♪ come walk with me ♪
- 00:25:34.689 --> 00:25:37.626
- ♪ through fields and forests. ♪
- 00:25:37.626 --> 00:25:42.497
- ♪ we'll climb the hill, ♪
- 00:25:42.497 --> 00:25:45.767
- ♪ and we'll still hear that song. ♪
- 00:25:45.767 --> 00:25:51.806
- ♪ for even hills, ♪
- 00:25:51.806 --> 00:25:55.210
- ♪ they resound with music. ♪
- 00:25:55.210 --> 00:26:00.649
- ♪ they just can't help it. ♪
- 00:26:00.649 --> 00:26:04.419
- ♪ because god gave the song. ♪
- 00:26:04.419 --> 00:26:15.697
- - yes, god gave the song.
- 00:26:19.300 --> 00:26:22.971
- The song's always been with us.
- 00:26:22.971 --> 00:26:28.877
- The song came into our world through a manger,
- 00:26:32.881 --> 00:26:37.485
- A manger in bethlehem.
- 00:26:37.485 --> 00:26:42.824
- It was a simple little song,
- 00:26:42.824 --> 00:26:45.527
- A simple, lovely song for every man to sing.
- 00:26:45.527 --> 00:26:55.070
- Right from the first, some tried to ignore it.
- 00:26:59.074 --> 00:27:03.445
- They said, "there's no song.
- 00:27:03.445 --> 00:27:08.016
- It simply doesn't exist."
- 00:27:08.016 --> 00:27:13.688
- Others tried to change the tune.
- 00:27:13.688 --> 00:27:19.561
- They made laws to stop it.
- 00:27:19.561 --> 00:27:24.299
- Armies marched against it.
- 00:27:27.902 --> 00:27:32.874
- They killed some who sang the song.
- 00:27:32.874 --> 00:27:36.611
- They screamed at it in fury.
- 00:27:36.611 --> 00:27:40.181
- They tried to drown it out.
- 00:27:40.181 --> 00:27:43.918
- Finally they nailed that song to a tree.
- 00:27:43.918 --> 00:27:58.032
- And they said to themselves,
- 00:28:01.669 --> 00:28:04.205
- "there, that should take care of that."
- 00:28:04.205 --> 00:28:13.114
- But it didn't.
- 00:28:16.484 --> 00:28:20.054
- - ♪ what's that i hear? ♪
- 00:28:20.054 --> 00:28:25.360
- ♪ i still hear that music. ♪
- 00:28:25.360 --> 00:28:29.964
- ♪ day after day, ♪
- 00:28:29.964 --> 00:28:33.968
- ♪ his song goes on. ♪
- 00:28:33.968 --> 00:28:38.907
- ♪ for once you know the source of music, ♪
- 00:28:38.907 --> 00:28:47.615
- ♪ you'll always hear it. ♪
- 00:28:47.615 --> 00:28:52.120
- ♪ god gave the song. ♪
- 00:28:52.120 --> 00:28:58.059
- ♪ come on and join. ♪
- 00:28:58.059 --> 00:29:01.529
- ♪ it's the song of jesus. ♪
- 00:29:01.529 --> 00:29:06.534
- ♪ day after day, ♪
- 00:29:06.534 --> 00:29:10.438
- ♪ that song goes on. ♪
- 00:29:10.438 --> 00:29:15.577
- ♪ for once you know the source of the music, ♪
- 00:29:15.577 --> 00:29:24.919
- ♪ you'll always hear it. ♪
- 00:29:24.919 --> 00:29:28.857
- ♪ god gave the song. ♪
- 00:29:28.857 --> 00:29:34.295
- ♪ for once i found it, ♪
- 00:29:34.295 --> 00:29:37.332
- ♪ i know the source of the music. ♪
- 00:29:37.332 --> 00:29:43.771
- ♪ i just can't help it. ♪
- 00:29:43.771 --> 00:29:47.642
- ♪ god gave the song. ♪
- 00:29:47.642 --> 00:30:02.557
- ♪ ooh-ooh-ooh. ♪
- 00:30:02.557 --> 00:30:10.198
- ♪ he gave the song. ♪
- 00:30:10.198 --> 00:30:18.506
- [cheers and applause]
- 00:30:18.506 --> 00:30:23.778
- - and aren't you glad he gave the song?
- 00:30:23.845 --> 00:30:26.214
- - i have to do that song again, bill.
- 00:30:26.214 --> 00:30:29.150
- That is so-- i love that song.
- 00:30:29.150 --> 00:30:32.287
- I love the story in between.
- 00:30:32.287 --> 00:30:34.889
- - i get asked a lot of times by secular reporters,
- 00:30:34.889 --> 00:30:38.326
- "why do you do what you do?"
- 00:30:38.326 --> 00:30:40.295
- Good question.
- 00:30:40.295 --> 00:30:41.763
- - it's a very good question.
- 00:30:41.763 --> 00:30:42.997
- - good question.
- 00:30:42.997 --> 00:30:44.232
- But i usually say, i think,
- 00:30:44.232 --> 00:30:45.466
- "for the same reason i've always done it;
- 00:30:45.466 --> 00:30:47.201
- "for two reasons.
- 00:30:47.201 --> 00:30:48.970
- "number one, i love the art form,
- 00:30:48.970 --> 00:30:50.538
- "and i'd be lying if i didn't say that i love harmony.
- 00:30:50.538 --> 00:30:56.044
- And secondly, i really believe in the message."
- 00:30:56.044 --> 00:30:57.979
- - absolutely.
- 00:30:57.979 --> 00:30:59.547
- - i still believe, in my case, after doing it for 40 years,
- 00:30:59.547 --> 00:31:03.885
- I still believe that christ can make a difference
- 00:31:03.885 --> 00:31:07.722
- In the way you face life.
- 00:31:07.722 --> 00:31:09.190
- - you know, otherwise, it's just music.
- 00:31:09.190 --> 00:31:12.460
- - yeah.
- 00:31:12.460 --> 00:31:13.761
- - but doing music that has life-changing message,
- 00:31:13.761 --> 00:31:18.466
- It becomes a challenge, an encouragement,
- 00:31:18.466 --> 00:31:21.202
- And it has the possibility of changing not just my world--
- 00:31:21.202 --> 00:31:26.074
- Which it radically has--
- 00:31:26.074 --> 00:31:28.009
- But hopefully somebody else's world who's listening.
- 00:31:28.009 --> 00:31:31.913
- - play me a hymn that comes to your mind
- 00:31:31.913 --> 00:31:33.815
- And sing me a verse of something that's meaningful to you.
- 00:31:33.815 --> 00:31:37.118
- And to say, do you know we hear these things when we're kids?
- 00:31:37.118 --> 00:31:41.789
- And then we live long enough,
- 00:31:41.789 --> 00:31:44.625
- And life beats us up a little bit.
- 00:31:44.625 --> 00:31:48.930
- - yeah, sometimes life beats us up a little bit.
- 00:31:48.930 --> 00:31:53.768
- Sometimes we choose to get in the ring, i guess,
- 00:31:53.768 --> 00:31:56.938
- And take some punches,
- 00:31:56.938 --> 00:31:59.207
- Give some punches.
- 00:31:59.207 --> 00:32:01.242
- And for a season, bill, i thought music was done for me.
- 00:32:01.242 --> 00:32:06.981
- At least publically.
- 00:32:06.981 --> 00:32:11.652
- I always loved music.
- 00:32:11.652 --> 00:32:15.490
- But as god began to restore and heal and forgive
- 00:32:15.490 --> 00:32:18.359
- And do those things that really only god can do,
- 00:32:18.359 --> 00:32:23.398
- I feel like i sing now from a different place.
- 00:32:23.398 --> 00:32:27.668
- And probably my favorite thing to sing of all time is this:
- 00:32:27.668 --> 00:32:34.575
- ♪ i sing because i'm happy, ♪
- 00:32:34.575 --> 00:32:43.351
- ♪ and i sing because i'm free. ♪
- 00:32:43.351 --> 00:32:52.260
- ♪ his eye is on the sparrow. ♪
- 00:32:52.260 --> 00:33:02.270
- ♪ and i know he watches me. ♪
- 00:33:02.270 --> 00:33:11.646
- ♪ his eye is on the sparrow. ♪
- 00:33:11.646 --> 00:33:22.123
- ♪ and that's why i know ♪
- 00:33:22.123 --> 00:33:26.060
- ♪ that he's watching over me. ♪
- 00:33:26.060 --> 00:33:32.967
- Today.
- 00:33:32.967 --> 00:33:35.103
- And my kids and my parents.
- 00:33:35.103 --> 00:33:39.907
- But we sing because there's a song to be sung,
- 00:33:39.907 --> 00:33:46.247
- And that song can set us free.
- 00:33:46.247 --> 00:33:52.286
- - ♪ je t'aime. ♪
- 00:34:01.028 --> 00:34:02.430
- ♪ te amo. ♪
- 00:34:02.430 --> 00:34:05.700
- ♪ ye tebya lyublyu. ♪
- 00:34:05.700 --> 00:34:08.936
- ♪ ani ohevet otach. ♪
- 00:34:08.936 --> 00:34:12.406
- ♪ i love you. ♪
- 00:34:12.406 --> 00:34:16.177
- ♪ oh, the sounds are all ♪
- 00:34:16.177 --> 00:34:17.378
- ♪ as different as the lands ♪
- 00:34:17.378 --> 00:34:19.780
- ♪ from which they came, ♪
- 00:34:19.780 --> 00:34:22.483
- ♪ and though our words ♪
- 00:34:22.483 --> 00:34:24.218
- ♪ are all unique, ♪
- 00:34:24.218 --> 00:34:26.621
- ♪ our hearts ♪
- 00:34:26.621 --> 00:34:27.688
- ♪ are still the same. ♪
- 00:34:27.688 --> 00:34:32.026
- ♪ love in any language, ♪
- 00:34:32.026 --> 00:34:35.329
- ♪ straight from the heart, ♪
- 00:34:35.329 --> 00:34:38.866
- ♪ pulls us all together. ♪
- 00:34:38.866 --> 00:34:40.034
- - jon mohr, speaking of characters.
- 00:34:40.034 --> 00:34:42.270
- - speaking of characters.
- 00:34:42.270 --> 00:34:44.071
- One of the original members of the gaither vocal band.
- 00:34:44.071 --> 00:34:47.208
- - rode on the bus with us.
- 00:34:47.208 --> 00:34:48.276
- - yes, indeed.
- 00:34:48.276 --> 00:34:49.443
- - started writing some ideas that he had
- 00:34:49.443 --> 00:34:52.046
- In the dinette on the bus.
- 00:34:52.046 --> 00:34:54.749
- And he started scratching out love in any language.
- 00:34:54.749 --> 00:34:59.420
- "straight from the heart.
- 00:34:59.420 --> 00:35:01.189
- Pulls us together."
- 00:35:01.189 --> 00:35:02.223
- - "all together.
- 00:35:02.223 --> 00:35:03.324
- Never apart."
- 00:35:03.324 --> 00:35:04.458
- - now, you talk about a universal message.
- 00:35:04.458 --> 00:35:08.796
- Do you still sing that?
- 00:35:08.796 --> 00:35:10.331
- - i sing that all the time.
- 00:35:10.331 --> 00:35:11.999
- It's one of those songs--
- 00:35:11.999 --> 00:35:14.101
- Especially when there's a kid's choir that--
- 00:35:14.101 --> 00:35:16.437
- But here's how much our world has changed
- 00:35:16.437 --> 00:35:19.173
- Since the writing of that song:
- 00:35:19.173 --> 00:35:22.043
- That--there's the lyric, "from leningrad to lexington."
- 00:35:22.043 --> 00:35:25.580
- There's no leningrad anymore.
- 00:35:25.580 --> 00:35:28.482
- The chorus of that song, though, is still what matters.
- 00:35:28.482 --> 00:35:31.586
- "love in any language, straight from the heart,
- 00:35:31.586 --> 00:35:33.821
- "pulls us all together, never apart.
- 00:35:33.821 --> 00:35:36.157
- "once we learn to speak it, all the world will hear.
- 00:35:36.157 --> 00:35:40.127
- Love in any language, fluently spoken here."
- 00:35:40.127 --> 00:35:44.565
- - god was speaking to jon mohr that day when he--
- 00:35:44.565 --> 00:35:46.567
- - i think so. - when he wrote that lyric.
- 00:35:46.567 --> 00:35:48.102
- - god even speaks on the bus.
- 00:35:48.102 --> 00:35:49.870
- - he really does.
- 00:35:49.870 --> 00:35:51.339
- - ♪ love in any language, ♪
- 00:35:51.339 --> 00:35:54.875
- ♪ straight from the heart, ♪
- 00:35:54.875 --> 00:35:58.446
- ♪ pulls us all together, ♪
- 00:35:58.446 --> 00:36:02.183
- ♪ never apart. ♪
- 00:36:02.183 --> 00:36:05.786
- ♪ and once we learn ♪
- 00:36:05.786 --> 00:36:07.388
- ♪ to speak it, ♪
- 00:36:07.388 --> 00:36:09.690
- ♪ all the world will hear. ♪
- 00:36:09.690 --> 00:36:13.194
- ♪ love in any language ♪
- 00:36:13.194 --> 00:36:16.764
- ♪ fluently spoken here. ♪
- 00:36:16.764 --> 00:36:20.768
- - ♪ love in any language, ♪
- 00:36:20.768 --> 00:36:23.971
- ♪ straight from the heart, ♪
- 00:36:23.971 --> 00:36:27.808
- ♪ pulls us all together, ♪
- 00:36:27.808 --> 00:36:30.344
- ♪ never apart. ♪
- 00:36:30.344 --> 00:36:34.582
- ♪ and once we learn ♪
- 00:36:34.582 --> 00:36:36.083
- ♪ to speak it, ♪
- 00:36:36.083 --> 00:36:38.419
- ♪ all the world will hear. ♪
- 00:36:38.419 --> 00:36:42.089
- ♪ love in any language, ♪
- 00:36:42.089 --> 00:36:46.227
- ♪ fluently spoken here ♪
- 00:36:46.227 --> 00:36:49.830
- ♪ love in any language, ♪
- 00:36:49.830 --> 00:36:53.501
- ♪ fluently spoken here ♪
- 00:36:53.501 --> 00:36:57.204
- ♪ love in any language, ♪
- 00:36:57.204 --> 00:37:00.708
- ♪ fluently spoken here. ♪
- 00:37:00.708 --> 00:37:09.617
- - ♪ spoken here! ♪
- 00:37:09.617 --> 00:37:19.593
- [cheers and applause]
- 00:37:19.660 --> 00:37:23.331
- - you know, you can't talk about sandi patty
- 00:37:23.331 --> 00:37:25.366
- And this crazy career
- 00:37:25.366 --> 00:37:27.535
- Without talking about a national thing that happened.
- 00:37:27.535 --> 00:37:31.005
- You and david clydesdale, the arranger,
- 00:37:31.005 --> 00:37:33.007
- And greg nelson said,
- 00:37:33.007 --> 00:37:34.642
- "let's do something special to the star-spangled banner."
- 00:37:34.642 --> 00:37:37.978
- - you know, there was a project to--
- 00:37:37.978 --> 00:37:40.247
- Ellis island was kind of being refurbished,
- 00:37:40.247 --> 00:37:42.350
- And so there was a project a lot of artists were on,
- 00:37:42.350 --> 00:37:45.686
- And they'd asked me to do the star-spangled banner,
- 00:37:45.686 --> 00:37:47.922
- But wanted a new verse to sort of reflect
- 00:37:47.922 --> 00:37:53.427
- The statue of liberty,
- 00:37:53.427 --> 00:37:55.262
- So claire cloninger--
- 00:37:55.262 --> 00:37:56.664
- - great lyricist. - great lyricist--
- 00:37:56.664 --> 00:37:59.333
- Came up with that brand-new third verse
- 00:37:59.333 --> 00:38:01.335
- That really, i think, celebrated that season.
- 00:38:01.335 --> 00:38:04.705
- Here's why this is the best gig i ever had:
- 00:38:04.705 --> 00:38:07.775
- 'cause i recorded that, and i said to david clydesdale,
- 00:38:07.775 --> 00:38:11.946
- "please don't write me above a high "b".
- 00:38:11.946 --> 00:38:15.483
- When i got the chart, the last note was a "d" flat,
- 00:38:15.483 --> 00:38:18.452
- And he said to me, "oh, don't worry."
- 00:38:18.452 --> 00:38:20.187
- He said, "you'll never have to sing that again."
- 00:38:20.187 --> 00:38:22.089
- And so we were watching the celebration
- 00:38:22.089 --> 00:38:26.560
- Of the statue of liberty at home, just like everybody.
- 00:38:26.560 --> 00:38:28.929
- Anna, who's now 27, was just 2 at the time,
- 00:38:28.929 --> 00:38:34.335
- And the last montage comes on of all the highlights
- 00:38:34.335 --> 00:38:38.539
- Of the whole weekend,
- 00:38:38.539 --> 00:38:40.441
- And i'm hearing--you know how when you hear something,
- 00:38:40.441 --> 00:38:42.710
- And it's familiar, but you can't quite place it?
- 00:38:42.710 --> 00:38:44.645
- And anna said, "mama, that's you singing."
- 00:38:44.645 --> 00:38:46.947
- And we listened, and sure enough.
- 00:38:46.947 --> 00:38:48.849
- So here i had this great opportunity,
- 00:38:48.849 --> 00:38:51.886
- And i got to be home.
- 00:38:51.886 --> 00:38:53.120
- It's kind of like an artist's dream.
- 00:38:53.120 --> 00:38:55.322
- The next day, peter jennings sent a crew out
- 00:38:55.322 --> 00:38:58.192
- Because it had been on abc,
- 00:38:58.192 --> 00:39:00.394
- And, from what i understand,
- 00:39:00.394 --> 00:39:02.062
- They were flooded with phone calls--
- 00:39:02.062 --> 00:39:04.031
- Half of the people saying, "that was sandi patty.
- 00:39:04.031 --> 00:39:06.967
- We know her."
- 00:39:06.967 --> 00:39:08.102
- Half of the people saying, "who was that?"
- 00:39:08.102 --> 00:39:11.105
- So he described me as this young little housewife
- 00:39:11.105 --> 00:39:13.274
- From anderson, indiana,
- 00:39:13.274 --> 00:39:15.042
- And sent a crew out the next day to do a little story,
- 00:39:15.042 --> 00:39:18.012
- And kind of how all that started.
- 00:39:18.012 --> 00:39:20.548
- - and the tonight show, then, a couple nights later,
- 00:39:20.548 --> 00:39:22.583
- You were doing it.
- 00:39:22.583 --> 00:39:23.684
- I will never forget,
- 00:39:23.684 --> 00:39:25.219
- 'cause johnny carson was asking you
- 00:39:25.219 --> 00:39:27.288
- About how you sang high notes,
- 00:39:27.288 --> 00:39:29.290
- And you said that your dad taught you.
- 00:39:29.290 --> 00:39:30.825
- - dad--the truth--
- 00:39:30.825 --> 00:39:33.327
- All we said: "you know what?
- 00:39:33.327 --> 00:39:34.862
- "don't worry about singing high.
- 00:39:34.862 --> 00:39:36.764
- It's just like screaming on pitch."
- 00:39:36.764 --> 00:39:38.666
- [laughter]
- 00:39:38.666 --> 00:39:39.667
- And so for all my life,
- 00:39:39.667 --> 00:39:41.869
- That's kind of how i've put it into practice.
- 00:39:41.869 --> 00:39:45.039
- ♪ for the land of the free ♪
- 00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:53.147
- ♪ and the home of the brave. ♪
- 00:39:53.147 --> 00:40:04.525
- ♪ america
- 00:40:04.525 --> 00:40:05.459
- - in mobile, alabama, one night,
- 00:40:05.459 --> 00:40:08.095
- We were not in the arena.
- 00:40:08.095 --> 00:40:09.663
- The arena was next door.
- 00:40:09.663 --> 00:40:10.898
- It's when we were building our audiences.
- 00:40:10.898 --> 00:40:13.467
- We were in a theater that seated 2,500:
- 00:40:13.467 --> 00:40:16.770
- A lovely theater.
- 00:40:16.770 --> 00:40:18.772
- And we were done, and in those days,
- 00:40:18.772 --> 00:40:21.175
- I guess they could tear down sound pretty quickly
- 00:40:21.175 --> 00:40:23.477
- Because by the time we got finished changing clothes
- 00:40:23.477 --> 00:40:28.983
- And came out on stage,
- 00:40:28.983 --> 00:40:31.585
- They had put the little light bulb
- 00:40:31.585 --> 00:40:33.153
- --as they do-- in theaters.
- 00:40:33.153 --> 00:40:34.622
- - that little work light, mm-hmm.
- 00:40:34.622 --> 00:40:36.490
- - in the middle of the stage,
- 00:40:36.490 --> 00:40:39.126
- And i can remember this like it was--
- 00:40:39.126 --> 00:40:41.562
- - we were--you and gloria and i happened to be walking together.
- 00:40:41.562 --> 00:40:45.566
- We were rolling our luggage, and you saw that work light.
- 00:40:45.566 --> 00:40:48.702
- - and i looked,
- 00:40:48.702 --> 00:40:50.104
- And it was one of those nights when god showed up.
- 00:40:50.104 --> 00:40:52.740
- It was--that whole room was filled with praise
- 00:40:52.740 --> 00:40:56.877
- And people applauding
- 00:40:56.877 --> 00:40:58.846
- And telling us we were the best thing
- 00:40:58.846 --> 00:41:02.016
- Since ice cream, and we believed them.
- 00:41:02.016 --> 00:41:06.554
- And i looked at you, and i said,
- 00:41:06.554 --> 00:41:07.755
- "sandi, look at this."
- 00:41:07.755 --> 00:41:09.924
- 'cause with that light bulb meant it's over, you know.
- 00:41:09.924 --> 00:41:14.028
- I said, "the stage is bare."
- 00:41:14.028 --> 00:41:17.665
- And i think i went on to say, "and the crowd is gone."
- 00:41:17.665 --> 00:41:22.169
- And we both looked at gloria, and i said,
- 00:41:22.169 --> 00:41:24.572
- "finish it, hon.
- 00:41:24.572 --> 00:41:25.806
- If the stage is bare, the crowd has gone,"
- 00:41:25.806 --> 00:41:29.043
- And she said, "the love we share still lingers on."
- 00:41:29.043 --> 00:41:35.215
- What's the next line?
- 00:41:35.215 --> 00:41:36.584
- - "we sang and prayed,
- 00:41:36.584 --> 00:41:38.052
- "and we laughed and cried,
- 00:41:38.052 --> 00:41:39.386
- "and, in our fumbling way,
- 00:41:39.386 --> 00:41:42.056
- "we tried to say what only hearts could know,
- 00:41:42.056 --> 00:41:45.526
- "and all too soon, we had to go.
- 00:41:45.526 --> 00:41:48.762
- "and now, here in this quiet room,
- 00:41:48.762 --> 00:41:52.066
- "there's empty seats.
- 00:41:52.066 --> 00:41:53.734
- There's just me and you."
- 00:41:53.734 --> 00:41:55.703
- Wow.
- 00:41:55.703 --> 00:41:57.938
- My favorite lyric in that is.
- 00:41:57.938 --> 00:42:00.307
- "i need you now much more than words can say.
- 00:42:00.307 --> 00:42:04.878
- "tomorrow's such a daily day,
- 00:42:04.878 --> 00:42:07.214
- "and i so need to feel you then,
- 00:42:07.214 --> 00:42:10.417
- "holding my hand.
- 00:42:10.417 --> 00:42:12.219
- Please hold me then."
- 00:42:12.219 --> 00:42:15.723
- - have you had days since then
- 00:42:15.723 --> 00:42:18.459
- When you have been in your kitchen, all alone,
- 00:42:18.459 --> 00:42:23.831
- And thought, "why am i doing what i've been doing?"
- 00:42:23.831 --> 00:42:27.034
- - yeah, more often than i care to admit sometimes.
- 00:42:27.034 --> 00:42:34.541
- - yeah.
- 00:42:34.541 --> 00:42:36.010
- - and it is a sacrifice,
- 00:42:36.010 --> 00:42:38.078
- Not just for us but for our families.
- 00:42:38.078 --> 00:42:40.180
- - yeah.
- 00:42:40.180 --> 00:42:42.383
- - but i guess i do what i do
- 00:42:42.383 --> 00:42:45.119
- Because that same god who holds my hand on the daily days
- 00:42:45.119 --> 00:42:49.289
- Can make a difference in somebody else's life
- 00:42:49.289 --> 00:42:54.495
- Because of the message.
- 00:42:54.495 --> 00:42:57.531
- Otherwise i would just be the soccer mom,
- 00:42:57.531 --> 00:43:01.068
- Because i love that.
- 00:43:01.068 --> 00:43:02.603
- - yeah.
- 00:43:02.603 --> 00:43:03.904
- - but it's the daily days when god shows up,
- 00:43:03.904 --> 00:43:08.008
- And we allow him to work that makes such a difference.
- 00:43:08.008 --> 00:43:11.512
- When i was younger, as an artist,
- 00:43:11.512 --> 00:43:13.781
- I used to feel like who i was onstage,
- 00:43:13.781 --> 00:43:16.850
- I had to carry with me offstage,
- 00:43:16.850 --> 00:43:19.219
- And that just did not work.
- 00:43:19.219 --> 00:43:20.754
- - yeah.
- 00:43:20.754 --> 00:43:22.122
- - and it's who i am, in the kitchen,
- 00:43:22.122 --> 00:43:24.525
- Making cookies for sam's baseball team.
- 00:43:24.525 --> 00:43:27.628
- That's who i want to carry with me onstage.
- 00:43:27.628 --> 00:43:31.865
- That's why it makes a difference.
- 00:43:31.865 --> 00:43:40.974
- ♪ the stage is bare. ♪
- 00:43:44.511 --> 00:43:48.582
- ♪ the crowds are gone. ♪
- 00:43:48.582 --> 00:43:53.787
- ♪ the love we shared ♪
- 00:43:53.787 --> 00:43:58.192
- ♪ still lingers on. ♪
- 00:43:58.192 --> 00:44:01.795
- ♪ we sang and played, ♪
- 00:44:01.795 --> 00:44:05.299
- ♪ and we laughed and cried, ♪
- 00:44:05.299 --> 00:44:11.205
- ♪ and in our fumbling way, ♪
- 00:44:11.205 --> 00:44:16.777
- ♪ we tried to say what only hearts can know. ♪
- 00:44:16.777 --> 00:44:24.051
- ♪ and all too soon, ♪
- 00:44:24.051 --> 00:44:31.058
- ♪ we had to go. ♪
- 00:44:31.058 --> 00:44:34.962
- ♪ and now here in this darkened room, ♪
- 00:44:34.962 --> 00:44:46.006
- ♪ there's just empty seats. ♪
- 00:44:46.006 --> 00:44:51.445
- ♪ there's just me and you. ♪
- 00:44:51.445 --> 00:44:58.619
- ♪ it was so easy to call you lord ♪
- 00:44:58.619 --> 00:45:04.858
- ♪ when a thousand voices sang your praise. ♪
- 00:45:04.858 --> 00:45:13.934
- ♪ but there's no one, ♪
- 00:45:13.934 --> 00:45:17.204
- ♪ there's no one to hear me now. ♪
- 00:45:17.204 --> 00:45:23.644
- ♪ so hear me now. ♪
- 00:45:23.644 --> 00:45:28.315
- ♪ be near me now. ♪
- 00:45:28.315 --> 00:45:43.764
- ♪ the stage is bare. ♪
- 00:45:38.358 --> 00:45:48.135
- ♪ the crowds have gone. ♪
- 00:45:48.135 --> 00:45:51.138
- ♪ lord, now's the time i need your song ♪
- 00:45:51.138 --> 00:46:00.214
- ♪ to give me joy and certainty. ♪
- 00:46:00.214 --> 00:46:11.024
- ♪ when no one else is watching me, ♪
- 00:46:11.024 --> 00:46:18.398
- ♪ i need you more, ♪
- 00:46:18.398 --> 00:46:22.736
- ♪ much more than words can say. ♪
- 00:46:22.736 --> 00:46:26.506
- ♪ 'cause tomorrow's such a daily day. ♪
- 00:46:26.506 --> 00:46:37.718
- ♪ and i so need to feel you then, ♪
- 00:46:37.718 --> 00:46:46.994
- ♪ holding my hand. ♪
- 00:46:46.994 --> 00:46:51.765
- ♪ please, ♪
- 00:46:51.765 --> 00:46:53.934
- ♪ please hold me then. ♪
- 00:46:53.934 --> 00:47:03.677
- ♪ ooh-ooh-oooh-ooh ♪
- 00:47:03.677 --> 00:47:09.816
- ♪ i need you, lord. ♪
- 00:47:09.816 --> 00:47:23.764
- ♪ i need thee every... ♪
- 00:47:23.764 --> 00:47:31.405
- The music of what we do is important.
- 00:47:31.405 --> 00:47:33.473
- - yeah.
- 00:47:33.473 --> 00:47:34.875
- - but the message is really what is the most important.
- 00:47:34.875 --> 00:47:38.645
- I remember you saying,
- 00:47:38.645 --> 00:47:39.780
- "if you have to say before you sing
- 00:47:39.780 --> 00:47:44.418
- What you're song is gonna say, then don't sing it."
- 00:47:44.418 --> 00:47:46.954
- - yeah.
- 00:47:46.954 --> 00:47:48.288
- - why bother? - yeah.
- 00:47:48.288 --> 00:47:49.489
- - let the song speak for yourself,
- 00:47:49.489 --> 00:47:52.592
- And so make those words important.
- 00:47:52.592 --> 00:47:54.895
- And you do such a great job of that,
- 00:47:54.895 --> 00:47:56.863
- And i've tried to tell the story of a song when i'm singing it
- 00:47:56.863 --> 00:48:02.536
- Because that's what's so important.
- 00:48:02.536 --> 00:48:04.604
- - i don't know of anybody who does it any better than you
- 00:48:04.604 --> 00:48:06.740
- Because, you know, your mind is a computer,
- 00:48:06.740 --> 00:48:09.343
- And i've often told young artists,
- 00:48:09.343 --> 00:48:11.645
- "run that through your mind."
- 00:48:11.645 --> 00:48:14.348
- I mean, this is an important lyric.
- 00:48:14.348 --> 00:48:15.749
- - thank you.
- 00:48:15.749 --> 00:48:17.351
- - "could we with ink the ocean fill,
- 00:48:17.351 --> 00:48:20.120
- "and were the skies of parchment made,
- 00:48:20.120 --> 00:48:22.589
- "were every stalk on earth a quill,
- 00:48:22.589 --> 00:48:24.958
- "and every man a scribe by trade,
- 00:48:24.958 --> 00:48:26.626
- "to write the love of god above
- 00:48:26.626 --> 00:48:29.763
- "would drain the ocean dry,
- 00:48:29.763 --> 00:48:32.766
- "nor could the scroll contain the whole,
- 00:48:32.766 --> 00:48:35.402
- Though stretched..."
- 00:48:35.402 --> 00:48:36.570
- I mean, that's a lyric.
- 00:48:36.570 --> 00:48:37.637
- If you run it through your brain...
- 00:48:37.637 --> 00:48:39.039
- - that is a great lyric.
- 00:48:39.039 --> 00:48:40.707
- And it all matters.
- 00:48:40.707 --> 00:48:43.710
- The lyric, you know,
- 00:48:43.710 --> 00:48:45.212
- When you and gloria came to me and larnelle
- 00:48:45.212 --> 00:48:47.914
- With i've just seen jesus,
- 00:48:47.914 --> 00:48:49.916
- "all that i've done before..."
- 00:48:49.916 --> 00:48:51.785
- - "won't matter anymore."
- 00:48:51.785 --> 00:48:53.820
- - and that doesn't mean even just the bad stuff.
- 00:48:53.820 --> 00:48:56.189
- That means the good stuff too.
- 00:48:56.189 --> 00:48:57.357
- - yeah, sure. sure.
- 00:48:57.357 --> 00:48:58.558
- - 'cause that's not gonna matter either.
- 00:48:58.558 --> 00:49:00.560
- "all that i've done before won't matter anymore.
- 00:49:00.560 --> 00:49:03.730
- "i've just seen jesus,
- 00:49:03.730 --> 00:49:05.332
- And i'll never be the same again."
- 00:49:05.332 --> 00:49:07.634
- That's why we show up every day and do what we do.
- 00:49:07.634 --> 00:49:12.906
- - ♪ well, we knew he was dead. ♪
- 00:49:12.906 --> 00:49:18.712
- ♪ it is finished, he said. ♪
- 00:49:18.712 --> 00:49:21.815
- ♪ and we watched as his life ebbed away. ♪
- 00:49:21.815 --> 00:49:29.990
- - ♪ then we all stood around ♪
- 00:49:29.990 --> 00:49:34.327
- ♪ till the guards took him down. ♪
- 00:49:34.327 --> 00:49:37.531
- ♪ joseph begged for his body ♪
- 00:49:37.531 --> 00:49:41.134
- ♪ on that day. ♪
- 00:49:41.134 --> 00:49:45.772
- - ♪ it was late afternoon ♪
- 00:49:45.772 --> 00:49:48.842
- ♪ when we got to the tomb, ♪
- 00:49:48.842 --> 00:49:52.312
- ♪ wrapped his body, ♪
- 00:49:52.312 --> 00:49:54.181
- ♪ and sealed up the grave. ♪
- 00:49:54.181 --> 00:50:00.420
- - ♪ so i know how you feel. ♪
- 00:50:00.420 --> 00:50:03.924
- ♪ his death was so real, ♪
- 00:50:03.924 --> 00:50:06.827
- ♪ but please listen and hear what i say. ♪
- 00:50:06.827 --> 00:50:16.036
- ♪ i've just seen jesus. ♪
- 00:50:16.036 --> 00:50:24.945
- ♪ i tell you he's alive. ♪
- 00:50:24.945 --> 00:50:31.418
- ♪ i've just seen jesus, ♪
- 00:50:31.418 --> 00:50:37.791
- ♪ our precious lord alive. ♪
- 00:50:37.791 --> 00:50:45.966
- ♪ and i knew. ♪
- 00:50:45.966 --> 00:50:49.769
- - ♪ yes, i knew. ♪
- 00:50:49.769 --> 00:50:52.105
- - ♪ he really saw me too. ♪
- 00:50:52.105 --> 00:50:56.243
- - ♪ he saw me too. ♪
- 00:50:56.243 --> 00:51:00.347
- - ♪ as if till now, ♪
- 00:51:00.347 --> 00:51:04.918
- ♪ i'd never lived. ♪
- 00:51:04.918 --> 00:51:11.958
- ♪ all that i'd done before ♪
- 00:51:11.958 --> 00:51:18.598
- ♪ won't matter anymore. ♪
- 00:51:18.598 --> 00:51:26.273
- ♪ i've just seen jesus, ♪
- 00:51:26.273 --> 00:51:33.613
- ♪ and i'll never be the same again. ♪
- 00:51:33.613 --> 00:51:49.996
- - ♪ it was his voice she first heard. ♪
- 00:51:53.934 --> 00:51:59.105
- ♪ those kind gentle words, ♪
- 00:51:59.105 --> 00:52:02.409
- ♪ asking what was her reason for tears. ♪
- 00:52:02.409 --> 00:52:08.915
- - ♪ and i sobbed in despair. ♪
- 00:52:08.915 --> 00:52:12.953
- ♪ my lord is not there. ♪
- 00:52:12.953 --> 00:52:15.388
- - ♪ he said, "child, it is i!" ♪
- 00:52:15.388 --> 00:52:19.359
- ♪ i am here! ♪
- 00:52:19.359 --> 00:52:25.098
- ♪ i've just seen jesus. ♪
- 00:52:25.098 --> 00:52:35.809
- ♪ i tell you he's alive. ♪
- 00:52:35.809 --> 00:52:42.515
- ♪ i've just seen jesus, ♪
- 00:52:42.515 --> 00:52:48.822
- ♪ our precious lord alive. ♪
- 00:52:48.822 --> 00:52:57.530
- ♪ and i knew. ♪
- 00:52:57.530 --> 00:53:00.567
- - ♪ yes, i knew. ♪
- 00:53:00.567 --> 00:53:02.502
- - ♪ he really saw me too. ♪
- 00:53:02.502 --> 00:53:07.207
- - ♪ he really saw me too. ♪
- 00:53:07.207 --> 00:53:11.177
- - ♪ it was, ♪
- 00:53:11.177 --> 00:53:12.178
- ♪ it was as if till now, ♪
- 00:53:12.178 --> 00:53:16.049
- ♪ i'd never lived. ♪
- 00:53:16.049 --> 00:53:23.523
- ♪ all that i've done before ♪
- 00:53:23.523 --> 00:53:29.529
- ♪ won't matter anymore. ♪
- 00:53:29.529 --> 00:53:37.137
- ♪ i've just seen jesus. ♪
- 00:53:37.137 --> 00:53:50.950
- - ♪ and i've just seen jesus. ♪
- 00:53:44.311 --> 00:53:55.889
- ♪ and all i've ever done before ♪
- 00:53:55.889 --> 00:54:04.064
- ♪ won't matter anymore. ♪
- 00:54:04.064 --> 00:54:11.671
- ♪ i've just seen jesus, ♪
- 00:54:11.671 --> 00:54:15.909
- ♪ and i'll never be the same again. ♪
- 00:54:15.909 --> 00:54:27.987
- ♪ i've just seen jesus! ♪
- 00:54:27.987 --> 00:54:40.133
- [cheers and applause]
- 00:54:40.133 --> 00:55:38.658
- ♪ what's that i hear? ♪
- 00:55:42.295 --> 00:55:47.434
- ♪ i still hear that music. ♪
- 00:55:47.434 --> 00:55:52.172
- ♪ day after day, ♪
- 00:55:52.172 --> 00:55:56.409
- ♪ his song goes on. ♪
- 00:55:56.409 --> 00:56:01.147
- ♪ for once you know the source of music, ♪
- 00:56:01.147 --> 00:56:09.856
- ♪ you'll always hear it. ♪
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- ♪ god gave the song. ♪
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- ♪ come on and join. ♪
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- ♪ it's the song of jesus. ♪
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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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- ♪in the stillness, of the midnight♪
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