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Annie Moses Band -Tales From My Grandpa's Pulpit

January 11, 2025 | S25:E8

Annie Moses Band -Tales From My Grandpa's Pulpit
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Gaither Gospel | Annie Moses Band -Tales From My Grandpa's Pulpit | January 11, 2025
  • ... 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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  • Bill: the story of the annie moses band
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  • Has blossomed from the cotton patch
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  • To the concert hall,
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  • A journey spanning four generations
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  • That has taken them
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  • From the grand ole opry to carnegie hall.
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  • It's a tale of cotton pickers,
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  • A pistol-packing preacher, and fiery fiddling.
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  • It's also a tale of manhattan skyscrapers,
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  • Soaring symphonies, and classical finesse.
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  • I'm bill gaither,
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  • And these are the "tales from grandpa's pulpit."
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • - ♪ praise the lord of heaven. ♪
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  • ♪ praise the lord of earth. ♪
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  • ♪ praise him for his mighty power. ♪
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  • ♪ praise him for his works. ♪
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  • ♪ praise the lord, ye nations. ♪
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  • ♪ praise the lord, ye kings. ♪
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  • ♪ praise him, all creation. ♪
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  • ♪ let your voices sing. ♪
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  • ♪ praise the lord. ♪
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  • ♪ shout with joy to god, all the earth. ♪
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  • ♪ sing glory to his name. ♪
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  • ♪ tell aloud his marvelous worth. ♪
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  • ♪ his righteousness proclaim. ♪
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  • ♪ glory and honor and blessing and power be unto the lord. ♪
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  • ♪ come and let us make his praise glorious. ♪
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • - ♪ praise the lord with music. ♪
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  • ♪ praise the lord with strings. ♪
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  • All: ♪ praise him with the harp and lyre. ♪
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  • ♪ let the cymbals ring. ♪
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  • - ♪ praise the lord with trumpets. ♪
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  • All: ♪ praise the lord with tambourine. ♪
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  • ♪ oh, praise the lord in chorus. ♪
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  • ♪ let your voices sing. ♪
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  • ♪ praise the lord. ♪
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  • ♪ shout with joy to god, all the earth. ♪
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  • ♪ sing glory to his name. ♪
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  • ♪ tell aloud his marvelous worth. ♪
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  • ♪ his righteousness proclaim. ♪
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  • ♪ glory and honor and blessing and power be unto the lord. ♪
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  • ♪ come and let us make his praise... ♪
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  • - ♪ glorious. ♪
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  • All: ♪ glorious. ♪
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  • - ♪ behold how good it is ♪
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  • ♪ to sing praises to our god. ♪
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  • ♪ how pleasant and fitting to praise him. ♪
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  • ♪ behold how good it is ♪
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  • ♪ oh, behold ♪
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  • All: ♪ how good it is to sing praises to our god. ♪
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  • ♪ how pleasant and fitting to praise him. ♪
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  • ♪ behold how good it is. ♪
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  • ♪ oh, how pleasant and fitting to praise him.
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  • ♪ behold how good it is. ♪
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  • - ♪ come, let us make his praise. ♪
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  • All: ♪ make his praise glorious. ♪
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  • - ♪ shout with joy to god, all the earth. ♪
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  • ♪ sing glory to his name. ♪
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  • ♪ tell aloud his marvelous worth. ♪
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  • ♪ his righteousness proclaim. ♪
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  • ♪ glory and honor and blessing and power be unto the lord. ♪
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  • ♪ come... ♪
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  • All: ♪ shout with joy to god, all the earth. ♪
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  • ♪ sing glory to his name. ♪
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  • ♪ tell aloud his marvelous worth. ♪
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  • ♪ his righteousness proclaim. ♪
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  • ♪ glory and honor and blessing and power be unto the lord. ♪
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  • ♪ come and let us make his praise. ♪
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  • ♪ make his praise.
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  • ♪ make his praise... ♪
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  • - ♪ glorious. ♪
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  • [cheers and applause]
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  • - you traveled a lot
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  • 'cause i've been the person doing interviews on a couple
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  • Of gaither tv specials with my friend bradley walker
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  • And the brotherly love group.
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  • And they're all wonderful musicians,
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  • And they're from all around. but you guys are my neighbors.
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  • - that's true.
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  • - and that makes this especially special for me.
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  • We're about an hour south of nashville,
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  • In columbia, tennessee,
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  • And we're talking about a live performance
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  • That we recently did in our barn.
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  • - so tonight,
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  • You are going to be hearing the story of our family,
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  • And you're also going to be hearing about the mission
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  • And the calling that god has for us for the next generation.
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  • We grew up the children of award-winning songwriters.
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  • But it didn't start here in nashville.
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  • Instead, it began four generations ago,
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  • With the woman that i was named after, my great-grandmother,
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  • And the namesake of our group, annie moses.
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  • And annie moses quite literally worked herself
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  • Right at the beginning.
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  • I remember we had just started the band,
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  • And mama was sitting in the bed.
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  • My mother writes her best lyrics when she first wakes up,
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  • And she sits in the bed, and she writes her lyrics.
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  • And she wrote this lyric. and it's a beautiful song
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  • That tells the story of annie moses
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  • And the legacy of love that she passed down to us.
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  • [tender piano music]
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • ♪ oh, my great-grandma annie, we never did meet, ♪
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  • ♪ but the song of her legacy plays on in me. ♪
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  • ♪ her life was a hard one. ♪
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  • ♪ she worked in the fields ♪
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  • ♪ to see how much cotton an acre could yield. ♪
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  • ♪ a husband, some children, and an old clapboard shack. ♪
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  • ♪ sun beating down on her young aching back. ♪
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  • ♪ as her hands lost their beauty ♪
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  • ♪ in the black texas dirt, ♪
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  • ♪ right there beside her, the lord was at work... ♪
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  • All: ♪ planting the seeds of love's legacy, ♪
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  • ♪ passing her faithfulness right down to me, ♪
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  • ♪ writing the song of my destiny. ♪
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  • ♪ i stand here because of her love's... ♪
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  • - ♪ legacy. ♪
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • ♪ on a hot august evening, ♪
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  • ♪ a fine baby girl ♪
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  • ♪ was born to young annie, ♪
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  • ♪ and a song filled her world. ♪
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  • ♪ the angels crept closer as she made a vow. ♪
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  • ♪ this little girl's life would be better somehow. ♪
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  • ♪ as her daughter grew older, ♪
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  • ♪ annie rejoiced
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  • ♪ to hear the rare beauty ♪
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  • ♪ of her little girl's voice. ♪
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  • ♪ she found a piano. ♪
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  • ♪ she pinched every dime ♪
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  • ♪ and started a symphony, ♪
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  • ♪ dancing through time, ♪
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  • ♪ planting the seeds of love's legacy, ♪
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  • ♪ passing her faithfulness right down to me, ♪
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  • ♪ writing the song of my destiny. ♪
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  • ♪ i stand here because of her love's ♪
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  • ♪ legacy. ♪
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • ♪ great-grandma to grandma,
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  • ♪ mama to me. ♪
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  • ♪ through four generations
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  • ♪ of love's legacy. ♪
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  • ♪ of love's legacy. ♪
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  • ♪ oh, love's legacy. ♪
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  • All: ♪ planting the seeds of love's legacy. ♪
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  • - ♪ of love's legacy. ♪
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  • All: ♪ passing her faithfulness right down to me, ♪
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  • ♪ writing the song of my destiny. ♪
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  • - ♪ oh, writing the song of my destiny. ♪
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  • All: ♪ i stand here because of... ♪
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  • - ♪ her love's legacy. ♪
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  • ♪ oh ♪
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  • ♪ writing the song of my destiny. ♪
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  • ♪ i stand here because ♪
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  • ♪ of her love's ♪
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  • ♪ legacy. ♪
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • - ♪ my life flows on in endless song ♪
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  • ♪ above earth's lamentation. ♪
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  • ♪ i hear the sweet though far-off hymn ♪
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  • ♪ that hails a new creation. ♪
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  • ♪ through all the tumult and the strife, ♪
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  • ♪ i hear its music ringing. ♪
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  • ♪ it sounds an echo in my soul. ♪
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  • ♪ how can i keep from singing? ♪
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  • ♪ how can i keep from singing? ♪
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  • ♪ how can i keep from singing? ♪
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • ♪ and though my joys and comforts die, ♪
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  • ♪ the lord my savior liveth. ♪
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  • ♪ and though the darkness gathers round, ♪
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  • ♪ songs in the night he giveth. ♪
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  • ♪ no storm can shake my inmost calm, ♪
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  • ♪ while to that rock i'm clinging. ♪
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  • ♪ since christ is lord of heaven and earth, ♪
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  • ♪ how can i keep from singing? ♪
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  • ♪ how can i keep from singing? ♪
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  • ♪ how can i keep from singing? ♪
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • All: ♪ i lift my eyes. ♪
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  • ♪ the clouds grow thin. ♪
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  • ♪ i see the blue above it. ♪
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  • ♪ and day by day this pathway smooths, ♪
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  • ♪ since first i learned to love it. ♪
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  • ♪ the peace of christ makes fresh my heart, ♪
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  • ♪ a fountain ever springing. ♪
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  • ♪ all things are mine since i am his... ♪
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  • - ♪ how can i keep from singing? ♪
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  • - ♪ how can i keep from singing? ♪
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  • - how can i keep from singing?
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  • - ♪ how can i keep from singing? ♪
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  • All ♪ how can i keep... ♪
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  • - ♪ from singing? ♪
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • [applause]
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  • - i am really excited to be here t
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  • Performing at the barn.
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  • - thank you. - for all the ways
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  • That you've impacted my own life and my little one's life,
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  • Our school, the things that you're doing with our children,
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  • With lots of other children that you're impacting.
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  • God knows how much you're gonna impact so many other people.
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  • And i'm excited to be called a friend of yours.
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  • - thank you. - thank you.
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  • - and thankful to be part of this.
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  • I didn't grow up around gospel songs.
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  • My wife, really, is who shared most of the hymns
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  • That i know now and gospel music that i know.
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  • And so i'm always discovering more music.
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  • And you all did this song, "we have this moment."
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  • And it's a big song for the gaithers,
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  • But i didn't--i've never heard it before.
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  • At least i don't think i have.
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  • Except, when you were performing,
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  • Just felt like i've been here before.
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  • Like, i know this really well, even though i didn't know it.
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  • That was a very special moment in the room.
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  • What made you choose that song?
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  • - it goes back to grandpa and grandma.
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  • - i think it--yes.
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  • Well, we sang it with our grandma.
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  • - you did?
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  • - it was grandma jane's favorite song.
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  • - she loved--she loved that song.
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  • - so, grandma jane loved that song.
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  • And so i remember hearing mama and grandma jane sing it.
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  • - and then annie sang it with us.
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  • - and when i got older, they let me join the band,
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  • And i got to sing it with them.
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  • It's a beautifully written song.
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  • And the message, of course, is about
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  • Just the preciousness of life. you know, the beauty of...
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  • - it's profound. - everyday things.
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  • There's gonna come a time
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  • When i can't play the violin anymore.
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  • You know?
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  • And we can't make music together.
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  • And there'll be a time when, hopefully,
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  • We watch our children
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  • And our grandchildren making music together.
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  • And hopefully, all of that is going to be
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  • Joining the great praises of the saints
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  • That have been going for all of eternity,
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  • And that we're all going to join him again.
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  • But this moment-- this is the moment
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  • That god places within our hand,
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  • And the hope i have for myself
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  • Is that i am able to live it in such a way
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  • That i am as a drink offering poured out,
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  • And that it is all the love i have in my being,
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  • In order that he would be praised
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  • And in order that my children
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  • Would know how much i love them.
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  • [gentle music]
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • ♪ hold tight to the sound of the music of living. ♪
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  • ♪ happy songs from the laughter of children at play. ♪
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  • ♪ hold my hand as we run ♪
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  • ♪ through the sweet, fragrant meadow, ♪
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  • ♪ making memories of what was today. ♪
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  • All: ♪ we have this moment to hold in our hands, ♪
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  • ♪ and to touch as it slips ♪
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  • ♪ through our fingers like sand. ♪
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  • ♪ yesterday's gone, and tomorrow may never come, ♪
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  • ♪ but we have this moment today. ♪
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  • - ♪ the voice that i hear is my little girl calling, ♪
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  • ♪ for daddy to hear just what she wants to say. ♪
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  • - ♪ my little son... ♪
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  • Both: ♪ running there by the hillside ♪
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  • ♪ may never be quite like today. ♪
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • All: ♪ we have this moment to hold in our hands, ♪
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  • ♪ and to touch as it slips ♪
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  • ♪ through our fingers like sand. ♪
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  • ♪ yesterday's gone, and tomorrow may never come, ♪
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  • ♪ but we have this moment today. ♪
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  • - ♪ tender words, gentle touch, ♪
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  • ♪ and a good cup of coffee. ♪
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  • ♪ and someone who loves me and wants me to stay. ♪
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  • Both: ♪ hold them near while they're here. ♪
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  • ♪ and don't wait for tomorrow ♪
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  • ♪ to look back and wish for today. ♪
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • All: ♪ we have this moment to hold in our hands, ♪
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  • ♪ and to touch as it slips ♪
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  • ♪ through our fingers like sand. ♪
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  • ♪ yesterday's gone, and tomorrow may never come, ♪
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  • ♪ but we have this moment today. ♪
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  • - come on, mama. come sing with me.
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • ♪ take the blue of the sky and the green of the forest, ♪
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  • ♪ the gold and the brown of the freshly mown hay. ♪
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  • Both: ♪ add the pale shades of spring ♪
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  • ♪ and the circus of autumn, ♪
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  • ♪ and weave you a lovely today. ♪
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • All: ♪ we have this moment to hold in our hands, ♪
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  • ♪ and to touch as it slips ♪
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  • ♪ through our fingers like sand. ♪
  • 00:24:26.955 --> 00:24:32.427
  • ♪ yesterday's gone, and tomorrow may never come, ♪
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  • ♪ but we have this moment today. ♪
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  • - now all of you, won't you sing with us?
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  • All: ♪ we have this moment to hold in our hands, ♪
  • 00:24:50.378 --> 00:24:59.788
  • ♪ and to touch as it slips ♪
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  • ♪ through our fingers like sand. ♪
  • 00:25:03.391 --> 00:25:09.297
  • ♪ yesterday's gone, and tomorrow may never come, ♪
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  • ♪ but we have this moment today. ♪
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  • - we have this moment.
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  • All: ♪ but we have this moment ♪
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  • ♪ today. ♪
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  • [cheers and applause]
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  • ♪how they ever flood my soul♪
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  • Thank you for joining bill and gloria gaither...
  • 00:27:10.652 --> 00:27:13.154
  • ... 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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