Live At The Elsinore |
2005
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Published on Bandcamp on June 18, 2021
With additional track splits compared to CD and increased volume on the band set |
How this album was described upon being made publicly available:
What do you think when you find out that an artist has performed a long evening of music and it is available on CDs before you even leave the theater? High Tech Larry was probably the first Christian artist to have a multi-platformed website. He was the first Christian artist to set up his albums for release on CDs (and then withdrew, knowing that few Christian music lovers could afford the $1200-$2,200 cost of this new technology.) He had earlier been the first Christian artist to make a scenario-rock video, years before MTV ever came into existence.
But in most cases, in later years, it has been Charles who has created the tech-face aspect of Larry's career.
Larry decided the Elsinore concert should be available right after the show. But it was Charles and Jason who actually made it possible. In fact, Charles would have been on stage more often during the concert if he had not been operating the equipment, running the multi-media film presentation, overseeing the video crew, and many other unseen elements in the presentation of the concert, along with Jason Carter, Kristin Stavang and Silver.
If "it takes a village" to raise a child, it now takes a group of family and friends to create the operation which Larry is part of. After years of feeling alone in his career and being a leader, Larry says he is more than happy to be part of something and be "ensconced in a tribe."
Live At The Elsinore is available on a double CD set. Larry performs as a solo artist, sings with his sister in a guitar, mandolin and banjo segment, sings with a group of blind singers from Africa, then does an acoustic set with W.C. Handy Blues Award Nominee, Mark Lemhouse with Gary Pomeroy (People! 2) on guitar, then with the whole band. Special surprise guest Frank Black of The Pixies joins the band and plays out the rest of the concert with Larry and the two even switch off lead vocals on "Watch What You're Doing".
What do you think when you find out that an artist has performed a long evening of music and it is available on CDs before you even leave the theater? High Tech Larry was probably the first Christian artist to have a multi-platformed website. He was the first Christian artist to set up his albums for release on CDs (and then withdrew, knowing that few Christian music lovers could afford the $1200-$2,200 cost of this new technology.) He had earlier been the first Christian artist to make a scenario-rock video, years before MTV ever came into existence.
But in most cases, in later years, it has been Charles who has created the tech-face aspect of Larry's career.
Larry decided the Elsinore concert should be available right after the show. But it was Charles and Jason who actually made it possible. In fact, Charles would have been on stage more often during the concert if he had not been operating the equipment, running the multi-media film presentation, overseeing the video crew, and many other unseen elements in the presentation of the concert, along with Jason Carter, Kristin Stavang and Silver.
If "it takes a village" to raise a child, it now takes a group of family and friends to create the operation which Larry is part of. After years of feeling alone in his career and being a leader, Larry says he is more than happy to be part of something and be "ensconced in a tribe."
Live At The Elsinore is available on a double CD set. Larry performs as a solo artist, sings with his sister in a guitar, mandolin and banjo segment, sings with a group of blind singers from Africa, then does an acoustic set with W.C. Handy Blues Award Nominee, Mark Lemhouse with Gary Pomeroy (People! 2) on guitar, then with the whole band. Special surprise guest Frank Black of The Pixies joins the band and plays out the rest of the concert with Larry and the two even switch off lead vocals on "Watch What You're Doing".
Disc One
THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL
[Go to Song Page]
Ladies and gentlemen, Larry Norman [Spoken by compere]
Ah
Nice
Hahahaha
Thank you, thank you
Hahaha ha
Thank you
(We love you Larry - shouted by audience member)
Oh thank you, thank you very much
Now I gotta plug in
Ha
Thank you, thank you very much [Imitating Elvis]
Gosh that was something I coulda done myself. [Sighs] I didn't know where it was, ha ha
Has anybody seen my jacket? I, I'm, I don't wanna lose track of it
(Here, ????? - spoken by Gary Pomeroy?)
Thank you
Hey could you help put this into the [Spoken]
I was born and raised an orphan
In a land that once was free
In a land that poured its love out on the moon
And I grew up in the shadows
Of your silos filled with grain
But you never helped to fill my empty spoon
And when I was ten you murdered law
With courtroom politics
And you learned to make a lie sound just like truth
But I know you better now and
I don't fall for all your tricks
And you've lost the one advantage of my youth
You kill a black man at midnight
Just for talking to your daughter
Then you make his wife your mistress
And you leave her without water
And the
And the sheet
How's it going man?
(Audience member talks)
Huh?
(Audience member talks)
Oh yeah, a-yeh, and the eh sh, sh
And the sheet
The', what is it the'
The sheep, uh the sheet
(Audience member talks)
Sheet [Mumbles]
Okay, yeah
Are you gonna be here all night?
Thanks [Spoken]
You kill a black man at midnight
Just for talking to your daughter
Then you make his wife your mistress
And you leave her without water
And the sheet you wear upon your face
Is the sheet your children sleep on
At every meal you say a prayer
You don't believe but still you keep on
And your money says in God we trust
But it's against the law to pray in school
You say we beat the Russians to the moon
I say you starved your children to do it
You were far across the ocean
And the war was not your own
While you were losing that one
You're also losing the war at home
Your politicians all make speeches
And your news men all take notes
And they exaggerate false issues
As they shove them down our throats
Let's just skip to the last verse
Does anybody know the last verse
Hey what's the earlier verses, I kinda liked those, em. What's the, political verse?
Oh yeah, they're all political [Spoken]
My phone is tapped, my lips are chapped
From whispering through the fence
You know every move I make
Or is that just coincidence
Will you try to make my way of life
A little less like jail
If I promise to make tapes and slides
And send them through the mail
And your money says in God we trust
But it's against the law to pray in school
You say we beat the Russians to the moon
And I say you starved your children to do it
You say all men are equal, all men are brothers
Then why are the rich more equal than others
Don't ask me for the answers, I've only found one
That a man leaves his darkness when he follows the son
Ladies and gentlemen, Larry Norman [Spoken by compere]
Ah
Nice
Hahahaha
Thank you, thank you
Hahaha ha
Thank you
(We love you Larry - shouted by audience member)
Oh thank you, thank you very much
Now I gotta plug in
Ha
Thank you, thank you very much [Imitating Elvis]
Gosh that was something I coulda done myself. [Sighs] I didn't know where it was, ha ha
Has anybody seen my jacket? I, I'm, I don't wanna lose track of it
(Here, ????? - spoken by Gary Pomeroy?)
Thank you
Hey could you help put this into the [Spoken]
I was born and raised an orphan
In a land that once was free
In a land that poured its love out on the moon
And I grew up in the shadows
Of your silos filled with grain
But you never helped to fill my empty spoon
And when I was ten you murdered law
With courtroom politics
And you learned to make a lie sound just like truth
But I know you better now and
I don't fall for all your tricks
And you've lost the one advantage of my youth
You kill a black man at midnight
Just for talking to your daughter
Then you make his wife your mistress
And you leave her without water
And the
And the sheet
How's it going man?
(Audience member talks)
Huh?
(Audience member talks)
Oh yeah, a-yeh, and the eh sh, sh
And the sheet
The', what is it the'
The sheep, uh the sheet
(Audience member talks)
Sheet [Mumbles]
Okay, yeah
Are you gonna be here all night?
Thanks [Spoken]
You kill a black man at midnight
Just for talking to your daughter
Then you make his wife your mistress
And you leave her without water
And the sheet you wear upon your face
Is the sheet your children sleep on
At every meal you say a prayer
You don't believe but still you keep on
And your money says in God we trust
But it's against the law to pray in school
You say we beat the Russians to the moon
I say you starved your children to do it
You were far across the ocean
And the war was not your own
While you were losing that one
You're also losing the war at home
Your politicians all make speeches
And your news men all take notes
And they exaggerate false issues
As they shove them down our throats
Let's just skip to the last verse
Does anybody know the last verse
Hey what's the earlier verses, I kinda liked those, em. What's the, political verse?
Oh yeah, they're all political [Spoken]
My phone is tapped, my lips are chapped
From whispering through the fence
You know every move I make
Or is that just coincidence
Will you try to make my way of life
A little less like jail
If I promise to make tapes and slides
And send them through the mail
And your money says in God we trust
But it's against the law to pray in school
You say we beat the Russians to the moon
And I say you starved your children to do it
You say all men are equal, all men are brothers
Then why are the rich more equal than others
Don't ask me for the answers, I've only found one
That a man leaves his darkness when he follows the son
song for a small circle of friends
[Go to Song Page]
Well my life is filled with songs
But I just could not get along without my friends
Huh? I'm happy now? Oh yeah, well I am. I'm just gonna sing what I feel. Sorry, I, this, this is the new me, that's why this is the old me. Or this is the old me, that's why this is the new me [Spoken]
Well my life is filled with songs
But I just could not get along without my friends
Is that my brain? I left it somewhere [Spoken]
Well my life is filled with songs
But I just could not get along without my friends
And I'm happy now but when this good life ends
I know a better life begins
And love to you sir Stonehill
With your guitar full gallop on your amp
You're so crazy but you know it
I still love you as we both crawl toward the lamp
With Clapton on guitar
Charlie Watts on drums, bmm bmm baow tch tchu
McCartney on the Hofner bass
With blisters on his thumbs
Hoo
Dear Dylan watch your fears all hide
And disappear while love inside keeps growing
Oh let it keep growing
You're older but less colder
Than the jokes and folks you spent your childhood snowing
And someone died for all you friends
But even better yet he lives again
And if these words do not make sense to you
I hope his spirit slips on through
He loves you
He loves you, he loves you
And if these words do not appeal to you
I hope his spirit slips on through
He loves you
Uh, ugh [Spoken]
Well my life is filled with songs
But I just could not get along without my friends
Huh? I'm happy now? Oh yeah, well I am. I'm just gonna sing what I feel. Sorry, I, this, this is the new me, that's why this is the old me. Or this is the old me, that's why this is the new me [Spoken]
Well my life is filled with songs
But I just could not get along without my friends
Is that my brain? I left it somewhere [Spoken]
Well my life is filled with songs
But I just could not get along without my friends
And I'm happy now but when this good life ends
I know a better life begins
And love to you sir Stonehill
With your guitar full gallop on your amp
You're so crazy but you know it
I still love you as we both crawl toward the lamp
With Clapton on guitar
Charlie Watts on drums, bmm bmm baow tch tchu
McCartney on the Hofner bass
With blisters on his thumbs
Hoo
Dear Dylan watch your fears all hide
And disappear while love inside keeps growing
Oh let it keep growing
You're older but less colder
Than the jokes and folks you spent your childhood snowing
And someone died for all you friends
But even better yet he lives again
And if these words do not make sense to you
I hope his spirit slips on through
He loves you
He loves you, he loves you
And if these words do not appeal to you
I hope his spirit slips on through
He loves you
Uh, ugh [Spoken]
reader's digest
[Go to Song Page]
Ugh
Thank you very much [Spoken]
I better slow this one down, so we'll both know the words huh
You can explain to your kids later, what the song's about, and also your grandparents [Spoken]
Alice Cooper is a drag queen
Bowie's somewhere in between
Other bands are looking mean
Me, I'm trying to stay clean
I don't dig the radio
I hate what the charts pick
Rock and roll may not be dead
But it's pretty sick
All over the world disc jockeys talk the same
Every town I play is like the town from where I came
Except for this town
I always say that
But this time I mean it
The Rolling Stones are millionaires
Flower children pallbearers
Beatles said all you need is love
Then they broke up
Jimi took an overdose
Janis followed so close
The wh', whole music scene and
All the bands are pretty comatose
This time last year, people didn't wanna hear
They looked at Jesus from afar
Now they call him superstar
Dear John, who's more popular now
I've been listening to some of Paul's new records, with Wings
Sometimes I think he really is dead
Well it's 1973, I wonder who we're gonna see
Who's in power now
I think I'll turn on the TV
The man on the news said
China's gonna beat us
We shot all our dreamers
There's no one left to lead us
We need a solution, some kinda salvation
Let's send some people to the moon
And gather information
They brought back a big bag of rocks
Only cost forty seven billion
Must be nice rocks
You think it's such a sad thing
When you see a fallen king
Then you find out we're only princes to begin with
Everybody's got to choose
Whether they will win or lose
Follow God or sing the blues
And who you're gonna sin with
What a mess the world is in
I wonder who began it
Don't ask me, I'm only visiting this planet
This world is not my home
I'm just passing through
Ugh
Thank you very much [Spoken]
I better slow this one down, so we'll both know the words huh
You can explain to your kids later, what the song's about, and also your grandparents [Spoken]
Alice Cooper is a drag queen
Bowie's somewhere in between
Other bands are looking mean
Me, I'm trying to stay clean
I don't dig the radio
I hate what the charts pick
Rock and roll may not be dead
But it's pretty sick
All over the world disc jockeys talk the same
Every town I play is like the town from where I came
Except for this town
I always say that
But this time I mean it
The Rolling Stones are millionaires
Flower children pallbearers
Beatles said all you need is love
Then they broke up
Jimi took an overdose
Janis followed so close
The wh', whole music scene and
All the bands are pretty comatose
This time last year, people didn't wanna hear
They looked at Jesus from afar
Now they call him superstar
Dear John, who's more popular now
I've been listening to some of Paul's new records, with Wings
Sometimes I think he really is dead
Well it's 1973, I wonder who we're gonna see
Who's in power now
I think I'll turn on the TV
The man on the news said
China's gonna beat us
We shot all our dreamers
There's no one left to lead us
We need a solution, some kinda salvation
Let's send some people to the moon
And gather information
They brought back a big bag of rocks
Only cost forty seven billion
Must be nice rocks
You think it's such a sad thing
When you see a fallen king
Then you find out we're only princes to begin with
Everybody's got to choose
Whether they will win or lose
Follow God or sing the blues
And who you're gonna sin with
What a mess the world is in
I wonder who began it
Don't ask me, I'm only visiting this planet
This world is not my home
I'm just passing through
let the rain fall down
[Go to Song Page]
Hhmmm, uh
[Audience member says something]
Huh? What?
(We love you Larry - spoken by audience member)
Thank you. I know it, I know it. 'Cause you've flown from all over the world to come here. Thank you so much
(You're welcome - spoken by audience member)
Eh, I don't know if you're making plans to go to the party tomorrow or, or what, but um thank you for coming tonight. Yeah
Man I haven't played the guitar in a long time, sorry to be having a real moment up here. My legs are cramped and my hand is tired already
(Take your time - spoken by audience member)
Okay, I, I'll yeah. Hey um, they have movies here, th', they have silent films, uh. Oh yeah y' just saw one yeah, but I mean they, they show Buster Keaton and if any of you guys live here I think eh during summer every week they show some movie. And Rick, who played that incredible music over there em, he'd, he go, he'd watches the film and he adds to the mood and if there's a train in the thing he somehow makes that organ make a train noise and which is, it's great. And uh I have always liked movies. Um, I wasn't allowed to go to movies when we were growing up because it, uh you know it was wrong to dance and wrong to drink and wrong to go to the movies and. And I thought well that's why they call it cinema, so you'll know
And then it was okay to watch 'em on TV after they invented TV. And we got one, kinda late, like fifty nine or something and, and eh. You know when television was invented? It, it actually they had a functioning TV in the 1800s. And they were gonna try to figure out how to use it, what do you do with it, how do you market it, and then World War One came along and after that they said okay, well we don't have a lot of money right now and then prosperity started growing again and they said okay, we gotta, this is a great idea. The military's using it, they're, they're communicating but we, you know and then World War Two came along and. So it wasn't until after that that they said okay, we just gotta do it. And you know, I mean I kinda thank God that they didn't do it in the 1800s. I don't know what the world would be like today. [Sighs] But we'd be able to watch some cool vaudeville actors. On reruns
My grandfather came through this town. His name was Burl Stout and he was in a, what they called a stock company. And he uh performed with Buster Keaton and this girl, this young girl who announced that she was gonna be leaving the stock company and going off to this desert place where they grew figs and oranges, uh in, in California called Holywood, Hollywood. Didn't really have a sign, wasn't really a city. It was just a, actually it was one person's property and they had a lot of acreage and, and that's, the city that formed around it asked i', if we could borrow your ranch name. So um this, this girl said I'm gonna go make a, a moving picture and my grandfather and everybody in the stock company said, well, why are you quitting the legitimate stage? They were in vaudeville, you know, baggy pants and, and, and uh. Why are you leaving the legitimate theatre to go do one of those experimental things that Edison invented where you stick your eyes on it, it's a flip book and you see people dancing the Charleston and you know. But she went off and she stepped into great fame as the eh, the most popular, most well known, what they called the 20 reeler serial. Every Saturday they showed one chapter, it was called The Perils of Pauline. And Pearl White was the actress. So some of you might know a little bit of something about all this
Anyway, my grandfather passed through here and he said, I like this place and I wanna come back here to settle down. And then he moved to California because that's where everybody was waiting, and then they had their life, grew their kids up there and then they're going to retire here. And the year before they were gonna move he passed away, so they never came up here. I didn't even know about this until I was living up here and my parents said that's really weird because th', that's where gra'. And so now, anyway, my mother and father moved up, my sisters, my brother, so, you know, wherever grandpa is uh, he'd probably dig this if he cared anymore. I don't think, I don't think they worry about real estate and property in heaven. I think they have unrestricted land use up there. And there's no taxes. And there's no death
Well, I saw that movie, the, the Gibson movie about Jesus. Quite a different version. It's kinda cool 'cause, you know, it's a foreign film. It was in Aramaic and, but what I think is just really cool is that no matter what country they show it in, it's a foreign film. And Jesus suffers in it, ah ah and the audience, too. For quite a, a while. And then it's, it's all very poetic and, and, it's kind of like a bi'. Anyway, what I was used to when I grow up, grew up ah in um, was [Clears throat] these bib', what they call biblical spectacles with you know, a cast of thousands and, and Jesus very often is portrayed as somebody with nice complexion, blonde hair, blue eyes and, you know, he's walking around with his disciples like he just had his nail done and he's waiting for 'em to, waiting for 'em to dry and, and um.
All these movie stars taking a small part, like uh, you know they, you're going who's that guy, I've seen him before, he's in a gangster movie. Ah, seen that guy, yeah. [Mumbles] you know, you know, whatever. And um, so everybody's, I mean, I, I couldn't believe it when Jesus is dying on the cross and then he gives up the ghost and the centurion comes out and says [Imitating John Wayne] well now pilgrim. Surely this was the Son of God. You can imagine the last supper, with uh, Walter Brennan. Eh Peter, pa', pass the bread, and the Butter. And Cary Grant, Judas, Judas, Judas. And Jimmy Stewart. Oh, hey, can I have a little bit of that wine there? Well thank you, Harvey
But to me Jesus is a man of great strength and, and courage and love and redemption and, way more than the movies have ever portrayed. And he's a hero to a lot of us in this world as we try to be more like him. Bob Dylan said this too, that he really thinks of Jesus as a hero and he, he keeps him in mind. You know, a lot of people think Bob is doing one thing when r', Bob's really doing another, he just doesn't want anybody to have access to his private thoughts. [Starts playing guitar] You know, 1984, thought police, all that. Why can't we, why can't we all get along? So you should be loving one another and not gossiping about one another. Leave Dylan alone, leave Bono alone. Bono is more confirmed and devoted now than he's ever been. He talked to me of nothing but ministry and how good God is to him [Spoken]
My woman left me, felt like she left me for another man
You know it came as some surprise, it wasn't in my plan
She never told me nothing was wrong, she never gave me a clue
One morning there was a knock on the door and I found out we were through
And as I stood there with the paper in my hand
I found myself transported into another land
Heavenly Father
Help me thine to be
You let the rain fall on the good and the bad
So let the rain fall down on me
As through this life you ramble, as through this world you roam
You might live in a lotta houses but never find a home
As down the roads you wander and through broken fields you cross
You must never stop believing, for all is not lost
And don't you worry 'bout the unfaithful lovers and false friends
'Cause the love that you have given them, that's all that matters in the end
Heavenly father
Thou who all doth see
You let the rain fall on the quick and the dead
So let the rain fall down on me
I didn't know you were my father
I thought you were the hanging judge
And when I came into your courtroom
I thought you'd hold a grudge
I thought I was a worthless servant
I didn't know I was your son
And I didn't know you had forgiveness
For everything that I had done
This world is stumbling, your kingdom is at hand
Give me the strength to live and one day longer make a stand
There's gonna be a collision, this world is going fast
A mortgaged future meets a bankrupt past
A change is coming and people, they are slumbering in their beds
Storm clouds will bring the rain and the moon will turn blood red
Heavenly father
Thou who all doth see
You let the rain fall on the good and the bad
So let the rain fall on me
Dearest father
Thou who all doth see
You let the rain fall on the quick and the dead
So let the rain fall down on me
Let it fall on me [x2]
And let this good life be the life we lead
Let our faith grow like a mustard seed
And let your love be all the love we need
To carry us all the way home
Hhmmm, uh
[Audience member says something]
Huh? What?
(We love you Larry - spoken by audience member)
Thank you. I know it, I know it. 'Cause you've flown from all over the world to come here. Thank you so much
(You're welcome - spoken by audience member)
Eh, I don't know if you're making plans to go to the party tomorrow or, or what, but um thank you for coming tonight. Yeah
Man I haven't played the guitar in a long time, sorry to be having a real moment up here. My legs are cramped and my hand is tired already
(Take your time - spoken by audience member)
Okay, I, I'll yeah. Hey um, they have movies here, th', they have silent films, uh. Oh yeah y' just saw one yeah, but I mean they, they show Buster Keaton and if any of you guys live here I think eh during summer every week they show some movie. And Rick, who played that incredible music over there em, he'd, he go, he'd watches the film and he adds to the mood and if there's a train in the thing he somehow makes that organ make a train noise and which is, it's great. And uh I have always liked movies. Um, I wasn't allowed to go to movies when we were growing up because it, uh you know it was wrong to dance and wrong to drink and wrong to go to the movies and. And I thought well that's why they call it cinema, so you'll know
And then it was okay to watch 'em on TV after they invented TV. And we got one, kinda late, like fifty nine or something and, and eh. You know when television was invented? It, it actually they had a functioning TV in the 1800s. And they were gonna try to figure out how to use it, what do you do with it, how do you market it, and then World War One came along and after that they said okay, well we don't have a lot of money right now and then prosperity started growing again and they said okay, we gotta, this is a great idea. The military's using it, they're, they're communicating but we, you know and then World War Two came along and. So it wasn't until after that that they said okay, we just gotta do it. And you know, I mean I kinda thank God that they didn't do it in the 1800s. I don't know what the world would be like today. [Sighs] But we'd be able to watch some cool vaudeville actors. On reruns
My grandfather came through this town. His name was Burl Stout and he was in a, what they called a stock company. And he uh performed with Buster Keaton and this girl, this young girl who announced that she was gonna be leaving the stock company and going off to this desert place where they grew figs and oranges, uh in, in California called Holywood, Hollywood. Didn't really have a sign, wasn't really a city. It was just a, actually it was one person's property and they had a lot of acreage and, and that's, the city that formed around it asked i', if we could borrow your ranch name. So um this, this girl said I'm gonna go make a, a moving picture and my grandfather and everybody in the stock company said, well, why are you quitting the legitimate stage? They were in vaudeville, you know, baggy pants and, and, and uh. Why are you leaving the legitimate theatre to go do one of those experimental things that Edison invented where you stick your eyes on it, it's a flip book and you see people dancing the Charleston and you know. But she went off and she stepped into great fame as the eh, the most popular, most well known, what they called the 20 reeler serial. Every Saturday they showed one chapter, it was called The Perils of Pauline. And Pearl White was the actress. So some of you might know a little bit of something about all this
Anyway, my grandfather passed through here and he said, I like this place and I wanna come back here to settle down. And then he moved to California because that's where everybody was waiting, and then they had their life, grew their kids up there and then they're going to retire here. And the year before they were gonna move he passed away, so they never came up here. I didn't even know about this until I was living up here and my parents said that's really weird because th', that's where gra'. And so now, anyway, my mother and father moved up, my sisters, my brother, so, you know, wherever grandpa is uh, he'd probably dig this if he cared anymore. I don't think, I don't think they worry about real estate and property in heaven. I think they have unrestricted land use up there. And there's no taxes. And there's no death
Well, I saw that movie, the, the Gibson movie about Jesus. Quite a different version. It's kinda cool 'cause, you know, it's a foreign film. It was in Aramaic and, but what I think is just really cool is that no matter what country they show it in, it's a foreign film. And Jesus suffers in it, ah ah and the audience, too. For quite a, a while. And then it's, it's all very poetic and, and, it's kind of like a bi'. Anyway, what I was used to when I grow up, grew up ah in um, was [Clears throat] these bib', what they call biblical spectacles with you know, a cast of thousands and, and Jesus very often is portrayed as somebody with nice complexion, blonde hair, blue eyes and, you know, he's walking around with his disciples like he just had his nail done and he's waiting for 'em to, waiting for 'em to dry and, and um.
All these movie stars taking a small part, like uh, you know they, you're going who's that guy, I've seen him before, he's in a gangster movie. Ah, seen that guy, yeah. [Mumbles] you know, you know, whatever. And um, so everybody's, I mean, I, I couldn't believe it when Jesus is dying on the cross and then he gives up the ghost and the centurion comes out and says [Imitating John Wayne] well now pilgrim. Surely this was the Son of God. You can imagine the last supper, with uh, Walter Brennan. Eh Peter, pa', pass the bread, and the Butter. And Cary Grant, Judas, Judas, Judas. And Jimmy Stewart. Oh, hey, can I have a little bit of that wine there? Well thank you, Harvey
But to me Jesus is a man of great strength and, and courage and love and redemption and, way more than the movies have ever portrayed. And he's a hero to a lot of us in this world as we try to be more like him. Bob Dylan said this too, that he really thinks of Jesus as a hero and he, he keeps him in mind. You know, a lot of people think Bob is doing one thing when r', Bob's really doing another, he just doesn't want anybody to have access to his private thoughts. [Starts playing guitar] You know, 1984, thought police, all that. Why can't we, why can't we all get along? So you should be loving one another and not gossiping about one another. Leave Dylan alone, leave Bono alone. Bono is more confirmed and devoted now than he's ever been. He talked to me of nothing but ministry and how good God is to him [Spoken]
My woman left me, felt like she left me for another man
You know it came as some surprise, it wasn't in my plan
She never told me nothing was wrong, she never gave me a clue
One morning there was a knock on the door and I found out we were through
And as I stood there with the paper in my hand
I found myself transported into another land
Heavenly Father
Help me thine to be
You let the rain fall on the good and the bad
So let the rain fall down on me
As through this life you ramble, as through this world you roam
You might live in a lotta houses but never find a home
As down the roads you wander and through broken fields you cross
You must never stop believing, for all is not lost
And don't you worry 'bout the unfaithful lovers and false friends
'Cause the love that you have given them, that's all that matters in the end
Heavenly father
Thou who all doth see
You let the rain fall on the quick and the dead
So let the rain fall down on me
I didn't know you were my father
I thought you were the hanging judge
And when I came into your courtroom
I thought you'd hold a grudge
I thought I was a worthless servant
I didn't know I was your son
And I didn't know you had forgiveness
For everything that I had done
This world is stumbling, your kingdom is at hand
Give me the strength to live and one day longer make a stand
There's gonna be a collision, this world is going fast
A mortgaged future meets a bankrupt past
A change is coming and people, they are slumbering in their beds
Storm clouds will bring the rain and the moon will turn blood red
Heavenly father
Thou who all doth see
You let the rain fall on the good and the bad
So let the rain fall on me
Dearest father
Thou who all doth see
You let the rain fall on the quick and the dead
So let the rain fall down on me
Let it fall on me [x2]
And let this good life be the life we lead
Let our faith grow like a mustard seed
And let your love be all the love we need
To carry us all the way home
UFO
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[Sniffs]
I wrote a song that has the words left behind in it. There's a lot of times I say you've been left behind, you've been left behind, you've been left behind, left behind, and then in the, this music that I wrote is n', used in movies sometimes about being left behind and, and em, like The Thief In The Night, probably the worst film I never saw. And um Tribulation II Left Behind came out a couple years ago. And em, there's a, actually there's a soundtrack out there. There's a film that at this point at the uh film festivals, it has eighteen songs of mine that are in the film, and it's about all of this, all what happened and you know, why it happened, how we grew and um
I, I, I know that the Left Behind series [Starts playing guitar] has sold, lot of copies and, and uh, I don't know, I wrote a bunch of songs about it in the sixties 'cause I never heard anybody talking about it when I was growing up and I saw it in the bible and, you know, like the, in school the teacher was saying, okay we have to practice for a bomb today. So when the alarm goes off sometime this week, you all duck underneath your desks and put your head down, put your hands over your head and don't look at the blast. And she never told us that if we could see the blast, we wouldn't remember
So there was quite great fear in my little heart and eh my friends were worried about it too. The Russians were the worst thing on earth and we had to really just hope that nothing bad happened and. Then I was reading the bible, because I liked to read, the dictionary, Bill and Susan Go To Camp, bible, I, I just loved reading. And I came upon this verse that said Jesus will come back. It said uh, em Jesus will return to earth. And I, and I, and I thought, okay, well then they can't blow it up. 'Cause then what would he return to? So I stopped worrying about it right there and then, I, I never worried about it again. I never opposed anybody when they'd talk about it, I'd just think, well that's, you know, that's what they believe and, and I'm so glad I don't anymore. So when I started writing these songs I hadn't heard any sermons preached about this part of scripture. Maybe it's just too far out for a lot of people to wanna hear, in a time when people tied their ties as tightly as they could around their neck so God would know that they really respected him on a Sunday morning and were willing to suffer. For their faith [Spoken]
He's an unidentified flying object
You will see him in the air
He's an unidentified flying object
And you will drop your hands and stare
You will be afraid to tell your neighbors
They might think that it's not true
But when they open up the morning papers
They will know they've seen him too
Ow he will come back like he promised
With the price already paid
He will gather up his followers
And take us all away
He's an unidentified flying object
Coming back to take you home
He's an unidentified flying object
He will roll away your stone
He's an unidentified flying object
You will see him in the air
He's an un'
And he's an unidentified flying object
Oh yeah, you will drop your hands and stare
He will come back like he promised
With the price already paid
He will gather up his followers
And take us all away
He's an unidentified flying object
Coming back to take you home
He's an unidentified flying object
He will roll away your stone
Ooh hoo hoo wo ooh
[Sniffs]
I wrote a song that has the words left behind in it. There's a lot of times I say you've been left behind, you've been left behind, you've been left behind, left behind, and then in the, this music that I wrote is n', used in movies sometimes about being left behind and, and em, like The Thief In The Night, probably the worst film I never saw. And um Tribulation II Left Behind came out a couple years ago. And em, there's a, actually there's a soundtrack out there. There's a film that at this point at the uh film festivals, it has eighteen songs of mine that are in the film, and it's about all of this, all what happened and you know, why it happened, how we grew and um
I, I, I know that the Left Behind series [Starts playing guitar] has sold, lot of copies and, and uh, I don't know, I wrote a bunch of songs about it in the sixties 'cause I never heard anybody talking about it when I was growing up and I saw it in the bible and, you know, like the, in school the teacher was saying, okay we have to practice for a bomb today. So when the alarm goes off sometime this week, you all duck underneath your desks and put your head down, put your hands over your head and don't look at the blast. And she never told us that if we could see the blast, we wouldn't remember
So there was quite great fear in my little heart and eh my friends were worried about it too. The Russians were the worst thing on earth and we had to really just hope that nothing bad happened and. Then I was reading the bible, because I liked to read, the dictionary, Bill and Susan Go To Camp, bible, I, I just loved reading. And I came upon this verse that said Jesus will come back. It said uh, em Jesus will return to earth. And I, and I, and I thought, okay, well then they can't blow it up. 'Cause then what would he return to? So I stopped worrying about it right there and then, I, I never worried about it again. I never opposed anybody when they'd talk about it, I'd just think, well that's, you know, that's what they believe and, and I'm so glad I don't anymore. So when I started writing these songs I hadn't heard any sermons preached about this part of scripture. Maybe it's just too far out for a lot of people to wanna hear, in a time when people tied their ties as tightly as they could around their neck so God would know that they really respected him on a Sunday morning and were willing to suffer. For their faith [Spoken]
He's an unidentified flying object
You will see him in the air
He's an unidentified flying object
And you will drop your hands and stare
You will be afraid to tell your neighbors
They might think that it's not true
But when they open up the morning papers
They will know they've seen him too
Ow he will come back like he promised
With the price already paid
He will gather up his followers
And take us all away
He's an unidentified flying object
Coming back to take you home
He's an unidentified flying object
He will roll away your stone
He's an unidentified flying object
You will see him in the air
He's an un'
And he's an unidentified flying object
Oh yeah, you will drop your hands and stare
He will come back like he promised
With the price already paid
He will gather up his followers
And take us all away
He's an unidentified flying object
Coming back to take you home
He's an unidentified flying object
He will roll away your stone
Ooh hoo hoo wo ooh
six sixty six [combined into a single track with god part iii]
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And I shoulda stopped right there, but I wrote this one too about the same subject [Spoken]
In the midst of the war he offered us peace
He came like a lover from out of the east
With the face of an angel and the heart of a beast
His intentions were six sixty six
He walked up to the temple with gold in his hand
And he bought off the priests and propositioned the land
And the world was his harlot and laid in the sand
While the band played six sixty six
[Imitates banjo solo]
It's on the record [Spoken]
[Imitates banjo solo]
We served at his table and slept on the floor
But he starved us and beat us, and nailed us to the door
Well I'm ready to die, I can't take any more
And I'm sick of his lies and his tricks
You know he told us he loved us, that was a lie
There was blood in his pockets and death in his eyes
Well my number is up and I'm willing to die
If the band will play six
If the band will play six sixty
If the band will play six sixty six
And I shoulda stopped right there, but I wrote this one too about the same subject [Spoken]
In the midst of the war he offered us peace
He came like a lover from out of the east
With the face of an angel and the heart of a beast
His intentions were six sixty six
He walked up to the temple with gold in his hand
And he bought off the priests and propositioned the land
And the world was his harlot and laid in the sand
While the band played six sixty six
[Imitates banjo solo]
It's on the record [Spoken]
[Imitates banjo solo]
We served at his table and slept on the floor
But he starved us and beat us, and nailed us to the door
Well I'm ready to die, I can't take any more
And I'm sick of his lies and his tricks
You know he told us he loved us, that was a lie
There was blood in his pockets and death in his eyes
Well my number is up and I'm willing to die
If the band will play six
If the band will play six sixty
If the band will play six sixty six
god part iii [combined into a single track with six sixty six]
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I don't believe in Beatles, I don't believe in rock
I don't believe in the cutting edge, that's just journalist talk
I don't believe in the cover story or even the gospel charts
'Cause you can easily hit number one with a bullet and totally miss the heart
I, yes I, I believe in God
I don't believe in politics while the masses stay unfed
Until the leaders change priorities and supply the poor with bread
I don't believe in revolution or the empty words of peace
You could tear all of the governments down, you still won't find release
But I, yes I, I believe in God
I don't believe in money, the way lives are bought and sold
I don't believe in lyrics, the ones, th', unless the ones I've been told
Oh I'll just skip the last song, I'm getting real tired during this section. There's a lot more music and a lot more friends, so [Spoken]
I don't believe in evolution, I was born to be free
Ain't gonna let no anthropologist make a monkey outta me
I don't believe the devil's lies, ain't gonna be his slave
And when I'm finished dying I'm gonna bust out of my grave
I, yes I
I, I and I
I, yeah yes, oh yes I-ah
I believe in love
Woo
I don't believe in Beatles, I don't believe in rock
I don't believe in the cutting edge, that's just journalist talk
I don't believe in the cover story or even the gospel charts
'Cause you can easily hit number one with a bullet and totally miss the heart
I, yes I, I believe in God
I don't believe in politics while the masses stay unfed
Until the leaders change priorities and supply the poor with bread
I don't believe in revolution or the empty words of peace
You could tear all of the governments down, you still won't find release
But I, yes I, I believe in God
I don't believe in money, the way lives are bought and sold
I don't believe in lyrics, the ones, th', unless the ones I've been told
Oh I'll just skip the last song, I'm getting real tired during this section. There's a lot more music and a lot more friends, so [Spoken]
I don't believe in evolution, I was born to be free
Ain't gonna let no anthropologist make a monkey outta me
I don't believe the devil's lies, ain't gonna be his slave
And when I'm finished dying I'm gonna bust out of my grave
I, yes I
I, I and I
I, yeah yes, oh yes I-ah
I believe in love
Woo
i wish we'd all been ready
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I don't know if you knew that when my plane landed in England, on the flight over they broke my guitar, so I had to borrow guitars all over Europe. And then on the way back, well they didn't do it but I, they eh, something broke me. So I went directly from the baggage claim to the hospital and they put in some stuff, some machinery in here. They wanted to build it better. We can do it. And um, I borrowed this guitar from a girl named Julie Hoy, a woman, she has uh seven albums out and I love her and, and uh, I'd like to bring her out right now if she hasn't left the building
Hey, what's that? [Spoken, by Larry]
I dunno [Spoken, by Julie]
Didn't you see it, something went up [Spoken, by Larry]
I ??? sing the ??? part [Spoken, by Larry]
Yeah [Spoken, by Julie]
Yeah, y' [Spoken, by Larry]
Yeah [Spoken, by Julie]
Yeah [Spoken, by Larry]
Mm la la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la
Life was filled with guns and war
Everyone got trampled on the floor
I wish we'd all been ready
Children died, the days grew cold
A piece of bread could buy a bag of gold
I wish we'd all been ready
There's no time to change your mind
The son has come and you've been left behind
A man and wife asleep in bed
She turns a noise and turns her head, he's gone
I wish we'd all been ready
Two men walking up a hill
One disappears and one's left standing still
I wish we'd all been ready
There's no time to change your mind
The son has come and you've been left behind
La la la la la la la-ah-ah
La la la la la la la la la la
La la
Life was filled with bombs and guns
Heaven help the little ones who died
I hope we'll all be ready (I wish we'd all been ready)
People, wars, presidents, one world money
I hope you'll all be ready
There's no time to change your mind
How could you have been so blind
The father spoke, the demons dined
The son has come and you've been left behind
You've been left behind (You've been left behind) [x3]
You've been left behind
Thank you, very much [Spoken]
I don't know if you knew that when my plane landed in England, on the flight over they broke my guitar, so I had to borrow guitars all over Europe. And then on the way back, well they didn't do it but I, they eh, something broke me. So I went directly from the baggage claim to the hospital and they put in some stuff, some machinery in here. They wanted to build it better. We can do it. And um, I borrowed this guitar from a girl named Julie Hoy, a woman, she has uh seven albums out and I love her and, and uh, I'd like to bring her out right now if she hasn't left the building
Hey, what's that? [Spoken, by Larry]
I dunno [Spoken, by Julie]
Didn't you see it, something went up [Spoken, by Larry]
I ??? sing the ??? part [Spoken, by Larry]
Yeah [Spoken, by Julie]
Yeah, y' [Spoken, by Larry]
Yeah [Spoken, by Julie]
Yeah [Spoken, by Larry]
Mm la la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la
Life was filled with guns and war
Everyone got trampled on the floor
I wish we'd all been ready
Children died, the days grew cold
A piece of bread could buy a bag of gold
I wish we'd all been ready
There's no time to change your mind
The son has come and you've been left behind
A man and wife asleep in bed
She turns a noise and turns her head, he's gone
I wish we'd all been ready
Two men walking up a hill
One disappears and one's left standing still
I wish we'd all been ready
There's no time to change your mind
The son has come and you've been left behind
La la la la la la la-ah-ah
La la la la la la la la la la
La la
Life was filled with bombs and guns
Heaven help the little ones who died
I hope we'll all be ready (I wish we'd all been ready)
People, wars, presidents, one world money
I hope you'll all be ready
There's no time to change your mind
How could you have been so blind
The father spoke, the demons dined
The son has come and you've been left behind
You've been left behind (You've been left behind) [x3]
You've been left behind
Thank you, very much [Spoken]
the paw paw patch *
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I'd like to have my uh singing partner come out. Uh is it the right time, I, I can't remember the... [Spoken, by Larry]
You're the boss [Spoken, by Nancy]
...list. I'm the boss? I do', I don't sing that one. No, is it, is, is it the, and I'm prepared. I've been working on this for two months trying to memorise lyrics and so, I'd like to invite my sister Nancy out. I'll stand this way so I don't tch. [Sighs]. And you could stand that way... [Spoken, by Larry]
You know, he's always bossing me around, I'm ??? here. Okay [Spoken, by Nancy]
...and face me a little bit if, if you cou'. Well. I'm older. Okay um, we were born [Spoken, by Larry]
[Laughs] Ha. Thank you mom [Spoken, by Nancy]
And we really didn't think about it for a couple of years. And I, I actually, I don't remember anything from my childhood until I was three. And that was when I was supposed to go to the store and get some bread. And we were actually allowed to go out onto the sidewalks uh almost sixty years ago. It was safe for kids to play outside. And so I went dow', I lived in the second story apartment in a slum and you know, my dad was working really hard to get us out of the slum and finally we had enough money to move to a ghetto
So I'm running down the stairs to go to the grocery store and I fell, and all the way down the stairs doing kind of a cartwheel, all I was thinking about was don't lose the money, don't lose the money. Bread was only twenty five cents back then for a loaf, and my mom had given me a few coins and I got to the bottom and I was fine. You know, I was fine, I didn't cry or anything. And then I opened my hand and I saw the money was there, and then I started crying like, okay I'm, I am hurt. So that's when I woke up and I remember almost everything since 'The Great Awakening'
Now, we used to sing songs and I had a ukulele. My dad did not want me to have a guitar and actually, I couldn't hold a guitar when I was five. But I could hold the ukulele, and he said that was okay. I think that he associated the guitar with nightclubs and a ukulele with being out i', in a rowboat with your girlfriend, you know, something nice and chaste and, you know, lovely. So he let me have a ukulele so I would try to write concertos and, you know, symphonies and other songs about cowboys and clowns and. And my mom and dad would make us get up on the fireplace, which was like one brick high, that was the platform and sing to company. Well they didn't make us, they just told us to do it. You know, we always did what our parents said, because the bible says you should. You should, children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right, that your days in the land might be long. Like, okay, so if I don't do what they say they're gonna kill me.
Anyway we, so we get up and sing, and I'd like to sing one of these songs with Nancy tonight. Um, eh, I, uh. Isn't there supposed to be more people in the band? [Spoken, by Larry]
Yeah. Some more sisters. We need more sisters up here [Spoken, by Nancy]
Okay, well maybe they'll recognise this song and then. Oh you guys are here? Oh I'm sorry. These are my other two sisters [Spoken, by Larry]
Ready? C. Key of C [Spoken, by Larry]
Where oh where is pretty little Susie
Where oh where is pretty little Susie
Where oh where is pretty little Susie
Way down yonder on the pom-pom patch
Come on boys, let's go find 'em
Come on boys, let's go find 'em
Come on boys, let's go find 'em
Way down yonder in the pom-pom patch
You, you can't clap. I, I'm serious. If we're gonna sing these old, old songs, christians shouldn't have emotions back in the fifties. Okay I, I, I think we'll go to s', G [Spoken, by Larry]
??? [Spoken]
Yeah [Spoken, by Larry]
Come on boys, let's go find her
Come on boys, let's go find her
Come on boys, let's go find her
Way down yonder on the pom-pom patch
[Scatting]
I'd like to have my uh singing partner come out. Uh is it the right time, I, I can't remember the... [Spoken, by Larry]
You're the boss [Spoken, by Nancy]
...list. I'm the boss? I do', I don't sing that one. No, is it, is, is it the, and I'm prepared. I've been working on this for two months trying to memorise lyrics and so, I'd like to invite my sister Nancy out. I'll stand this way so I don't tch. [Sighs]. And you could stand that way... [Spoken, by Larry]
You know, he's always bossing me around, I'm ??? here. Okay [Spoken, by Nancy]
...and face me a little bit if, if you cou'. Well. I'm older. Okay um, we were born [Spoken, by Larry]
[Laughs] Ha. Thank you mom [Spoken, by Nancy]
And we really didn't think about it for a couple of years. And I, I actually, I don't remember anything from my childhood until I was three. And that was when I was supposed to go to the store and get some bread. And we were actually allowed to go out onto the sidewalks uh almost sixty years ago. It was safe for kids to play outside. And so I went dow', I lived in the second story apartment in a slum and you know, my dad was working really hard to get us out of the slum and finally we had enough money to move to a ghetto
So I'm running down the stairs to go to the grocery store and I fell, and all the way down the stairs doing kind of a cartwheel, all I was thinking about was don't lose the money, don't lose the money. Bread was only twenty five cents back then for a loaf, and my mom had given me a few coins and I got to the bottom and I was fine. You know, I was fine, I didn't cry or anything. And then I opened my hand and I saw the money was there, and then I started crying like, okay I'm, I am hurt. So that's when I woke up and I remember almost everything since 'The Great Awakening'
Now, we used to sing songs and I had a ukulele. My dad did not want me to have a guitar and actually, I couldn't hold a guitar when I was five. But I could hold the ukulele, and he said that was okay. I think that he associated the guitar with nightclubs and a ukulele with being out i', in a rowboat with your girlfriend, you know, something nice and chaste and, you know, lovely. So he let me have a ukulele so I would try to write concertos and, you know, symphonies and other songs about cowboys and clowns and. And my mom and dad would make us get up on the fireplace, which was like one brick high, that was the platform and sing to company. Well they didn't make us, they just told us to do it. You know, we always did what our parents said, because the bible says you should. You should, children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right, that your days in the land might be long. Like, okay, so if I don't do what they say they're gonna kill me.
Anyway we, so we get up and sing, and I'd like to sing one of these songs with Nancy tonight. Um, eh, I, uh. Isn't there supposed to be more people in the band? [Spoken, by Larry]
Yeah. Some more sisters. We need more sisters up here [Spoken, by Nancy]
Okay, well maybe they'll recognise this song and then. Oh you guys are here? Oh I'm sorry. These are my other two sisters [Spoken, by Larry]
Ready? C. Key of C [Spoken, by Larry]
Where oh where is pretty little Susie
Where oh where is pretty little Susie
Where oh where is pretty little Susie
Way down yonder on the pom-pom patch
Come on boys, let's go find 'em
Come on boys, let's go find 'em
Come on boys, let's go find 'em
Way down yonder in the pom-pom patch
You, you can't clap. I, I'm serious. If we're gonna sing these old, old songs, christians shouldn't have emotions back in the fifties. Okay I, I, I think we'll go to s', G [Spoken, by Larry]
??? [Spoken]
Yeah [Spoken, by Larry]
Come on boys, let's go find her
Come on boys, let's go find her
Come on boys, let's go find her
Way down yonder on the pom-pom patch
[Scatting]
run maggie run *
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Well run Maggie run
Run Maggie run
Riding through the meadows
Chase the rising sun
Chase the rising sun
Chase the rising sun
Running through the meadows
Chase the rising sun
Well yonder comes old Maggie
Chasing down a dream
Something that she's looking for
But she's never seen
Chasing down a dream yeah
Chasing down a dream
Something that she's looking for
But she's never seen
Maggie's feeling burdened
By the weight of sin
Someone's knocking at the door
She should let him in
Some, she should let him in yeah yeah
She should let him in
Someone's knocking at the door
She should let him in
Well run Maggie run
Run Maggie run
Riding through the meadows
Chase the rising sun
Chase the rising sun
Chase the rising sun
Running through the meadows
Chase the rising sun
Well yonder comes old Maggie
Chasing down a dream
Something that she's looking for
But she's never seen
Chasing down a dream yeah
Chasing down a dream
Something that she's looking for
But she's never seen
Maggie's feeling burdened
By the weight of sin
Someone's knocking at the door
She should let him in
Some, she should let him in yeah yeah
She should let him in
Someone's knocking at the door
She should let him in
Bluegrass piece by the severin sisters *
No, you should do it perfectly. Can you start now? [Spoken, by Larry] [Hums melody]
Run Maggie
Speed up ??? [Spoken, by Nancy]
Now you can clap [Spoken, by Nancy]
Thanks [Spoken, by Larry]
Wow, cool. I dunno if you like this kind of music and I thought I'd make you. Like it. So uh now when we got older, we still were trying to make sure our parents liked us. My, our, my parents were so loving, we had such great parents. We didn't know it. They, we didn't know everybody else was going through terrible things in their life. Our life was so pea', we didn't really know we were poor. I never asked my dad to buy something that he couldn't afford an'. I just thought oh I, I'm you're probably gonna give it to you on birthday, you know, next year or the. Eh we really didn't think about it. I mean I, I had a piece of wood one time and a nail and I made a boat, just pounded the nail and that was the mast, then I went out to the gutter and I played in the sewer water. And uh, this is true, you know, and. We had a wonderful life. It was, it was great
And oh eh, so we got older and then we went to school, we were in school together and they, they wouldn't let us sing the songs I wrote. But we wanted to sing, we wanted to, you know, do performances. And they had something called the hootenanny back then. So we went to the hootenanny, but you could only sing folk music. So we said okay, w', we'll, we won't sing any rock. We won't sing any, you know, any, we won't sing any christian rock, we won't. We'll sing folk music. But you know, I was, I was, without realising it, I was turning into a rebellious activist. I never did anything bad, but I never did anything right. I was more left [Spoken, by Larry]
Run Maggie
Speed up ??? [Spoken, by Nancy]
Now you can clap [Spoken, by Nancy]
Thanks [Spoken, by Larry]
Wow, cool. I dunno if you like this kind of music and I thought I'd make you. Like it. So uh now when we got older, we still were trying to make sure our parents liked us. My, our, my parents were so loving, we had such great parents. We didn't know it. They, we didn't know everybody else was going through terrible things in their life. Our life was so pea', we didn't really know we were poor. I never asked my dad to buy something that he couldn't afford an'. I just thought oh I, I'm you're probably gonna give it to you on birthday, you know, next year or the. Eh we really didn't think about it. I mean I, I had a piece of wood one time and a nail and I made a boat, just pounded the nail and that was the mast, then I went out to the gutter and I played in the sewer water. And uh, this is true, you know, and. We had a wonderful life. It was, it was great
And oh eh, so we got older and then we went to school, we were in school together and they, they wouldn't let us sing the songs I wrote. But we wanted to sing, we wanted to, you know, do performances. And they had something called the hootenanny back then. So we went to the hootenanny, but you could only sing folk music. So we said okay, w', we'll, we won't sing any rock. We won't sing any, you know, any, we won't sing any christian rock, we won't. We'll sing folk music. But you know, I was, I was, without realising it, I was turning into a rebellious activist. I never did anything bad, but I never did anything right. I was more left [Spoken, by Larry]
tom dooley / beatles montage *
[Go to Song Page]
So here's a song we sang at the folk music hootenanny [Spoken]
Well hang down your head Tom Dooley
Hang down your head and cry
Hang down your head Tom Dooley
Poor boy, you're bound to die
Hang down your head Tom Dooley
Hang down your head and cry (Now boy)
Hang down your head Tom Dooley
Poor boy, you're bound to die
Well I met her on a mountain
I said I, I wanna be your man
I met her on a mountain
I said I wanna hold your hand
I wanna hold your hand
I wanna hold your hand
This time tomorrow
Reckon where I'll be
Down in city of 'Frisco / Down in some lonesome [Laughs]
Running to your home
That's where we, that's where we grew up, 'Frisco. But we don't let anybody call it 'Frisco. It has to be called San Francisco, unless you live there and you have privileges. Okay, so uh [Spoken]
She, she told me that she loved me
She said that she'd be true
When I ran into her in 'Frisco
She said that she loved you
She loves you yeah yeah yeah
She loves you yeah yeah yeah
She loves you yeah yeah yeah
Ye-eh
What's next, do, do we know what's next? [Spoken, by Larry]
Uh Drinking Gourd [Spoken, by Nancy]
Oh yeah, yeah [Spoken, by Larry]
And the teachers didn't really know that song 'til it hit, those songs just came out on the radio. So we didn't get in trouble. I graduated by, before teachers started knowing what was really going on in the world [Spoken, by Larry]
So here's a song we sang at the folk music hootenanny [Spoken]
Well hang down your head Tom Dooley
Hang down your head and cry
Hang down your head Tom Dooley
Poor boy, you're bound to die
Hang down your head Tom Dooley
Hang down your head and cry (Now boy)
Hang down your head Tom Dooley
Poor boy, you're bound to die
Well I met her on a mountain
I said I, I wanna be your man
I met her on a mountain
I said I wanna hold your hand
I wanna hold your hand
I wanna hold your hand
This time tomorrow
Reckon where I'll be
Down in city of 'Frisco / Down in some lonesome [Laughs]
Running to your home
That's where we, that's where we grew up, 'Frisco. But we don't let anybody call it 'Frisco. It has to be called San Francisco, unless you live there and you have privileges. Okay, so uh [Spoken]
She, she told me that she loved me
She said that she'd be true
When I ran into her in 'Frisco
She said that she loved you
She loves you yeah yeah yeah
She loves you yeah yeah yeah
She loves you yeah yeah yeah
Ye-eh
What's next, do, do we know what's next? [Spoken, by Larry]
Uh Drinking Gourd [Spoken, by Nancy]
Oh yeah, yeah [Spoken, by Larry]
And the teachers didn't really know that song 'til it hit, those songs just came out on the radio. So we didn't get in trouble. I graduated by, before teachers started knowing what was really going on in the world [Spoken, by Larry]
follow The Drinking Gourd *
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Do you know the first one? [Spoken]
This is a song about eh enslavement and in, and they, what they called the big dipper. Eh it was shaped like a, a ladle and they called it the f', drinking gourd. And there was actually directions to get out of the south into the north, if you just travelled at night when nobody could see you as you were escaping from the south. And they followed the direction that the handle, the panhandle of the big dipper pointed and that, this was the song that they passed around from eh plantation plantation. If a person was sold to another owner and had to leave his wife, and his kids were sold and never saw their mother again, they had good reason to wanna escape [Spoken]
Follow the drinking gourd
You gotta follow the drinking gourd
For the old man is waiting to carry you to freedom
Follow the drinking gourd
When the moon comes up and the first quail call
Follow the drinking gourd
The river bank makes a mighty fine road
Follow the drinking gourd
For the old man is waiting to carry you to freedom
Follow the drinking gourd
You gotta follow the drinking gourd
You gotta follow the drinking gourd
For the old man is waiting to carry you to freedom
Follow the drinking gourd
There’s a flash of sunlight on a shiny blade
Follow the drinking gourd
So if someone's coming you better duck for shade
Follow the drinking gourd
For the old man is waiting to carry you to freedom
Follow the drinking gourd
Well I thought I heard the angel say
Follow the drinking gourd
Follow the star, it'll show you the way
Follow the drinking gourd
For the old man is waiting to carry you to freedom
Follow the drinking gourd
Follow the drinking gourd
You gotta follow the drinking gourd
For the old man is waiting to carry you to freedom
Follow the drinking gourd
Okay, we get what we ??? [Spoken]
Do you know the first one? [Spoken]
This is a song about eh enslavement and in, and they, what they called the big dipper. Eh it was shaped like a, a ladle and they called it the f', drinking gourd. And there was actually directions to get out of the south into the north, if you just travelled at night when nobody could see you as you were escaping from the south. And they followed the direction that the handle, the panhandle of the big dipper pointed and that, this was the song that they passed around from eh plantation plantation. If a person was sold to another owner and had to leave his wife, and his kids were sold and never saw their mother again, they had good reason to wanna escape [Spoken]
Follow the drinking gourd
You gotta follow the drinking gourd
For the old man is waiting to carry you to freedom
Follow the drinking gourd
When the moon comes up and the first quail call
Follow the drinking gourd
The river bank makes a mighty fine road
Follow the drinking gourd
For the old man is waiting to carry you to freedom
Follow the drinking gourd
You gotta follow the drinking gourd
You gotta follow the drinking gourd
For the old man is waiting to carry you to freedom
Follow the drinking gourd
There’s a flash of sunlight on a shiny blade
Follow the drinking gourd
So if someone's coming you better duck for shade
Follow the drinking gourd
For the old man is waiting to carry you to freedom
Follow the drinking gourd
Well I thought I heard the angel say
Follow the drinking gourd
Follow the star, it'll show you the way
Follow the drinking gourd
For the old man is waiting to carry you to freedom
Follow the drinking gourd
Follow the drinking gourd
You gotta follow the drinking gourd
For the old man is waiting to carry you to freedom
Follow the drinking gourd
Okay, we get what we ??? [Spoken]
the outlaw
[Go to Song Page]
??? [Spoken, by Larry]
You could ??? well, don't let me down [Spoken, by Larry]
??? [Spoken]
Yeah [Spoken, by Larry]
??? [Spoken]
Yeah [Spoken, by Larry]
??? [Spoken]
Huh? [Spoken, by Larry]
??? want it right now
Oh, well ??? [Spoken, by Larry]
??? [Spoken]
Huh. Okay [Spoken, by Larry]
??? [Spoken]
Yeah
This is a song about that man. You know, when I was growing up I was telling my friends about him, and there wasn't a lot of receptivity. At the age of five, you know, what do you expect out of your friends? And I, I, I'd stop and talk to the winos. They were laying down, you know, don't you feel good mister? Are you, are you hungry? You wanna come to my house? My mom knows how to cook. And I brought a stranger to the house at least once, and mom explained to me why it maybe wasn't necessary for me to do this at the age of five. In Haight Ashbury
And I grew up just a few blocks away from Haight Ashbury. I used to catch the bus at Haight and Masonic, which is one street over from Ashbury. And I'd try to go there and talk to the hippies. And they'd say yeah Jesus, hey cool man, he's far out you know, he's like the first hippie. I'd say no, he's not. Yah, he was totally into medicine, heavy, you know, spells and stuff. I mean, he could turn stuff into, like fish and bread into fish and bread. No, that's not who I'm talking about [Spoken, by Larry]
Some say he was an outlaw
That he roamed across the land
With a band of unschooled ruffians
And a few young fishermen
No one knew just where he came from
Or exactly what he'd done
But they said it might be something bad
That keeps them on the run
Some say he was a poet
That he'd stand upon the hill
And his words could calm an angry crowd
Or make the waves stand still
And he spoke in many parables
That few could understand
But the people sat for hours
Just to listen to this man
Some say he was a sorcerer
A man above all men
But he came to be a servant
And to set us free from sin
And that's who I believe he was
'Cause that's who I believe
And I think we should be ready
When it's time for us to leave
Some say he was a radical
He talked of being free
He was followed by the masses
On the shores of Galilee
He spoke out against corruption
And he bowed to no decree
And they feared his strength and power
So they nailed him to a tree
Some say he was the son of God
A man above all men
But he came to be a servant
And to set us free from sin
And that's who I believe he is
'Cause that's who I believe
And I think we should get ready
'Cause it's almost time to leave
And I think we should get ready
'Cause it's almost time to leave
??? [Spoken, by Larry]
You could ??? well, don't let me down [Spoken, by Larry]
??? [Spoken]
Yeah [Spoken, by Larry]
??? [Spoken]
Yeah [Spoken, by Larry]
??? [Spoken]
Huh? [Spoken, by Larry]
??? want it right now
Oh, well ??? [Spoken, by Larry]
??? [Spoken]
Huh. Okay [Spoken, by Larry]
??? [Spoken]
Yeah
This is a song about that man. You know, when I was growing up I was telling my friends about him, and there wasn't a lot of receptivity. At the age of five, you know, what do you expect out of your friends? And I, I, I'd stop and talk to the winos. They were laying down, you know, don't you feel good mister? Are you, are you hungry? You wanna come to my house? My mom knows how to cook. And I brought a stranger to the house at least once, and mom explained to me why it maybe wasn't necessary for me to do this at the age of five. In Haight Ashbury
And I grew up just a few blocks away from Haight Ashbury. I used to catch the bus at Haight and Masonic, which is one street over from Ashbury. And I'd try to go there and talk to the hippies. And they'd say yeah Jesus, hey cool man, he's far out you know, he's like the first hippie. I'd say no, he's not. Yah, he was totally into medicine, heavy, you know, spells and stuff. I mean, he could turn stuff into, like fish and bread into fish and bread. No, that's not who I'm talking about [Spoken, by Larry]
Some say he was an outlaw
That he roamed across the land
With a band of unschooled ruffians
And a few young fishermen
No one knew just where he came from
Or exactly what he'd done
But they said it might be something bad
That keeps them on the run
Some say he was a poet
That he'd stand upon the hill
And his words could calm an angry crowd
Or make the waves stand still
And he spoke in many parables
That few could understand
But the people sat for hours
Just to listen to this man
Some say he was a sorcerer
A man above all men
But he came to be a servant
And to set us free from sin
And that's who I believe he was
'Cause that's who I believe
And I think we should be ready
When it's time for us to leave
Some say he was a radical
He talked of being free
He was followed by the masses
On the shores of Galilee
He spoke out against corruption
And he bowed to no decree
And they feared his strength and power
So they nailed him to a tree
Some say he was the son of God
A man above all men
But he came to be a servant
And to set us free from sin
And that's who I believe he is
'Cause that's who I believe
And I think we should get ready
'Cause it's almost time to leave
And I think we should get ready
'Cause it's almost time to leave
african gospel acapella **
So tonight. I think it's fi', six, sorry [Spoken, by Larry]
Five [Spoken]
Wow. You know, and I never took drugs [Spoken, by Larry]
Hallelujah [Spoken, by audience member]
I know, can you imagine what I'd be doing right now? I'd be out in the desert looking for Howard Hughes. So I'd like to introduce the African Acapella Choir [Spoken, by Larry]
[Stage chatter then choir performs an acapella piece]
[Stage chatter]
Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much, we are very happy to be here this evening. We are members of the African Gospel Acapella. We're from Liberia, West Africa, as you heard from brother Larry. Liberia uh, have been going through a time of war. We, Liberia, we have sixteen major languages and our official language is English. So that's why we speak English okay. Yeah, so I think you understand us, right? Alright, and we are very happy to just be here today. Thank you for Larry for inviting us and, we're gonna praise the Lord together. Thank you [Spoken by choir member]
Five [Spoken]
Wow. You know, and I never took drugs [Spoken, by Larry]
Hallelujah [Spoken, by audience member]
I know, can you imagine what I'd be doing right now? I'd be out in the desert looking for Howard Hughes. So I'd like to introduce the African Acapella Choir [Spoken, by Larry]
[Stage chatter then choir performs an acapella piece]
[Stage chatter]
Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much, we are very happy to be here this evening. We are members of the African Gospel Acapella. We're from Liberia, West Africa, as you heard from brother Larry. Liberia uh, have been going through a time of war. We, Liberia, we have sixteen major languages and our official language is English. So that's why we speak English okay. Yeah, so I think you understand us, right? Alright, and we are very happy to just be here today. Thank you for Larry for inviting us and, we're gonna praise the Lord together. Thank you [Spoken by choir member]
lay your hand on me jesus **
[Stage chatter]
Oh-oh lay your hand
Lay your hand on me oh Lord
Jesus, lay your hand on me
Lay your hand
Sweet Jesus, I need you Jesus
Ha-a-and on me
Oh lay your hand
Jesus
Yeah on me
On me, on me
Sweet Jesus, I need you Jesus
Yeah on me
Lay your hand
Oh lay it Lord
Jesus, lay your hand on me
I need you Lord, I need you Jesus
Oh-oh lay your hand on me
Oh-oh amazing grace
How sweet the sound
That save a wretch
A wretch like me yeah
I once was lost
But now I'm found
Once was blind
But now I can see
Oh lay your hand
Sweet Jesus
I need your touch Lord
To heal me
Ah ha
Lay your hand
On me oh Lord
Jesus, lay your hand on me yeah
I need you Lord
I need you Jesus
Oh lay your hand on me
Oh-amazing grace
How sweet the sound
That save a wretch
A wretch like me
I once was lost
But now I'm found
Once was blind
But now I can see
Oh lay your hand
Sweet Jesus yeah
I need you Jesus
Oh oh thank you Lord
Oh oh oh
[Scatting]
Thank you. Okay [Spoken]
Oh-oh lay your hand
Lay your hand on me oh Lord
Jesus, lay your hand on me
Lay your hand
Sweet Jesus, I need you Jesus
Ha-a-and on me
Oh lay your hand
Jesus
Yeah on me
On me, on me
Sweet Jesus, I need you Jesus
Yeah on me
Lay your hand
Oh lay it Lord
Jesus, lay your hand on me
I need you Lord, I need you Jesus
Oh-oh lay your hand on me
Oh-oh amazing grace
How sweet the sound
That save a wretch
A wretch like me yeah
I once was lost
But now I'm found
Once was blind
But now I can see
Oh lay your hand
Sweet Jesus
I need your touch Lord
To heal me
Ah ha
Lay your hand
On me oh Lord
Jesus, lay your hand on me yeah
I need you Lord
I need you Jesus
Oh lay your hand on me
Oh-amazing grace
How sweet the sound
That save a wretch
A wretch like me
I once was lost
But now I'm found
Once was blind
But now I can see
Oh lay your hand
Sweet Jesus yeah
I need you Jesus
Oh oh thank you Lord
Oh oh oh
[Scatting]
Thank you. Okay [Spoken]
* and ** denote songs that are combined into a single track on the CD
Disc Two
little wabbit
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There was a wabbit
And the wabbit woved a twain
And the twain woved the wabbit wight back
They had a habit
Of always wunning into wain
And they woved to pway with marbles and jacks
The wittle wabbit
He woved to talk to the twain
The twain would answer wight back
The wittle wabbit would say
Cwunch cwunch cwunch
And the twain would say quickety quack
Oh the wabbit woved the twain
And the twain woved the wabbit
They would pway and pway all day
Then the wabbit heard a man say the twain would move to Baltimore
And that's when they decided they would both wun away
And so the wabbit
Started wunning for the twain
The twain caught the rabbit
And they never wooked back
And the last they were seen
They were disappeawing down the twacks
There was a wabbit
And the wabbit woved a twain
And the twain woved the wabbit wight back
They had a habit
Of always wunning into wain
And they woved to pway with marbles and jacks
The wittle wabbit
He woved to talk to the twain
The twain would answer wight back
The wittle wabbit would say
Cwunch cwunch cwunch
And the twain would say quickety quack
Oh the wabbit woved the twain
And the twain woved the wabbit
They would pway and pway all day
Then the wabbit heard a man say the twain would move to Baltimore
And that's when they decided they would both wun away
And so the wabbit
Started wunning for the twain
The twain caught the rabbit
And they never wooked back
And the last they were seen
They were disappeawing down the twacks
fly me to the moon / i'm in the mood for love *
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That's for the kids
[Sighs]
When I was growing up, my father uh, when I was, when I was growing up my father eh caught me listening to this transistor radio that my uncle had brought back from Korea where he'd been stationed. And he came in and I should have been asleep, I mean it was six-thirty. And he said what are you listening to? And me being an h', honest child, said eh, rock and roll. He said I don't want you ever listening to that music again. No son of mine's gonna grow up to be Elvis Presley. The year was 1956. And I couldn't listen to music anymore, except if it was his music
He told me that he didn't like rock and roll because it's, it's just a bunch of noise. It's like a wop bop a loop bop a lop bam boom. But it's okay for me to listen to his songs like mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey a kiddley divey too, wouldn't you. Coh, sounds like Popeye, kiddly divy too. So, I, I kept try, trying to ask him why, because my sister was allowed to listen to the radio, so why couldn't I? And it didn't seem to bother him that I could hear rock music coming from her room. So I said, wh', wh', what is it dad, what's this so bad about rock and roll? Well, I told you I don't like the words. They don't make sense. They're ridiculous. So I listened to his songs like uh [Spoken]
Fly me to the moon
And maybe to the planet Mars
Let's see what life is like on Jupiter, whatever and Mars
In other words, hold my hand
In other words, doobily-doop-a-do-boo-dip
In other words, reep, reep-a-do-boo-do-boo-da
In other words, bum bum buh, I love you, yeah
Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars. Yeah that, that song makes a lot of sense dad. He said well I, I, you know, w', eh, w', I don't like it 'cause honestly, I'll tell you the truth, 'cause it's all about one thing. Rock and roll music is just about one thing, over and over again. What's that dad? It's all about se-ah', it's just uh, it's about se', romance. My dad loved the beautiful music of his era. Songs like [Spoken]
I'm in the mood for love
Simply because you're near me
Darling, but when you're near me
I'm in the mood for love
I'm in the mood for love. Simply because you're near me. That guy has no self control. And our parents used to listen to that music all the time. It's no wonder there's so many of us [Spoken]
I don't know what's next [Spoken, by Larry]
Um ??? [Spoken by Dan Cutrona]
I'm ??? September Song [Spoken, by Larry]
[Go to Song Page]
That's for the kids
[Sighs]
When I was growing up, my father uh, when I was, when I was growing up my father eh caught me listening to this transistor radio that my uncle had brought back from Korea where he'd been stationed. And he came in and I should have been asleep, I mean it was six-thirty. And he said what are you listening to? And me being an h', honest child, said eh, rock and roll. He said I don't want you ever listening to that music again. No son of mine's gonna grow up to be Elvis Presley. The year was 1956. And I couldn't listen to music anymore, except if it was his music
He told me that he didn't like rock and roll because it's, it's just a bunch of noise. It's like a wop bop a loop bop a lop bam boom. But it's okay for me to listen to his songs like mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey a kiddley divey too, wouldn't you. Coh, sounds like Popeye, kiddly divy too. So, I, I kept try, trying to ask him why, because my sister was allowed to listen to the radio, so why couldn't I? And it didn't seem to bother him that I could hear rock music coming from her room. So I said, wh', wh', what is it dad, what's this so bad about rock and roll? Well, I told you I don't like the words. They don't make sense. They're ridiculous. So I listened to his songs like uh [Spoken]
Fly me to the moon
And maybe to the planet Mars
Let's see what life is like on Jupiter, whatever and Mars
In other words, hold my hand
In other words, doobily-doop-a-do-boo-dip
In other words, reep, reep-a-do-boo-do-boo-da
In other words, bum bum buh, I love you, yeah
Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars. Yeah that, that song makes a lot of sense dad. He said well I, I, you know, w', eh, w', I don't like it 'cause honestly, I'll tell you the truth, 'cause it's all about one thing. Rock and roll music is just about one thing, over and over again. What's that dad? It's all about se-ah', it's just uh, it's about se', romance. My dad loved the beautiful music of his era. Songs like [Spoken]
I'm in the mood for love
Simply because you're near me
Darling, but when you're near me
I'm in the mood for love
I'm in the mood for love. Simply because you're near me. That guy has no self control. And our parents used to listen to that music all the time. It's no wonder there's so many of us [Spoken]
I don't know what's next [Spoken, by Larry]
Um ??? [Spoken by Dan Cutrona]
I'm ??? September Song [Spoken, by Larry]
september song *
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I like that old music. And I, I usually just sing my music, but I'd like to sing a song for you, to you, about you. About us [Spoken]
Well it's a long, long while from May to December
But the days go by when you reach September
The autumn weather turns the leaves to flame
And they don't have time for the waiting game
Oh the years dwindle down
To a precious few
September, November
And these few days I'll spend with you
These precious days I'll spend with you
Thank you [Spoken]
[Clears throat]
I like that old music. And I, I usually just sing my music, but I'd like to sing a song for you, to you, about you. About us [Spoken]
Well it's a long, long while from May to December
But the days go by when you reach September
The autumn weather turns the leaves to flame
And they don't have time for the waiting game
Oh the years dwindle down
To a precious few
September, November
And these few days I'll spend with you
These precious days I'll spend with you
Thank you [Spoken]
[Clears throat]
the moon's a harsh mistress **
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??? [Spoken]
See her how she flies
Golden sails across the sky
Well she looks close enough to touch
But careful if you try
And she looks as warm as gold
The moon's a harsh mistress
The moon is hard to hold
Once the sun did shine
You know it felt so fine
Then the moon a phantom rose
Up from the mountains and the pine
And then the darkness fell
The moon's a harsh mistress
It's hard to know her well
I fell out of her eyes
I fell out of her heart
I fell down on my face
And I tripped and missed the stars
I fell and fell alone
The moon's a harsh mistress
Sky is made of stone
The moon's a harsh mistress
Thank you, thanks [Spoken]
Are you guys doing the Crusaders cover now? [Spoken by Charles Norman]
Eh well we could be, I think it's One Way [Spoken by Dan Cutrona]
Yeah. Yeah yeah, okay [Spoken by Charles Norman]
??? [Spoken]
See her how she flies
Golden sails across the sky
Well she looks close enough to touch
But careful if you try
And she looks as warm as gold
The moon's a harsh mistress
The moon is hard to hold
Once the sun did shine
You know it felt so fine
Then the moon a phantom rose
Up from the mountains and the pine
And then the darkness fell
The moon's a harsh mistress
It's hard to know her well
I fell out of her eyes
I fell out of her heart
I fell down on my face
And I tripped and missed the stars
I fell and fell alone
The moon's a harsh mistress
Sky is made of stone
The moon's a harsh mistress
Thank you, thanks [Spoken]
Are you guys doing the Crusaders cover now? [Spoken by Charles Norman]
Eh well we could be, I think it's One Way [Spoken by Dan Cutrona]
Yeah. Yeah yeah, okay [Spoken by Charles Norman]
one way **
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One way, one way to heaven
Hold your head up high
One way, free and forgiven
You are children of the sky
Two roads diverged in the middle of my life
I heard a poet say
And I took the road less traveled by
And that's made the difference every night and every day
I say one way, one way to heaven
Hold up high your hand
Follow, you know it's free and forgiven
Children of the lamb
Children of the sky
Wo oh oh yeah-eh-eh yeah
Children of the sky
Ooh ooh hoo
One way, one way to heaven
Hold your head up high
One way, free and forgiven
You are children of the sky
Two roads diverged in the middle of my life
I heard a poet say
And I took the road less traveled by
And that's made the difference every night and every day
I say one way, one way to heaven
Hold up high your hand
Follow, you know it's free and forgiven
Children of the lamb
Children of the sky
Wo oh oh yeah-eh-eh yeah
Children of the sky
Ooh ooh hoo
i am a servant **
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Maybe I Am A Servant. Do you know that one? [Spoken, by Larry]
Uuh, yeah [Spoken, by Dan Cutrona]
Can I get a, can I get a microphone stand that, on a boom? I could use this one if it [Spoken, by Larry]
Went to visit my parents. I was in Capitol Records, I had been signed to 'em for a few years. There's no follow spot I don't think, I'm just, just don't wanna keep on standing in one place. And uh my dad said to me in 1968, I'll tell you what Larry, today's your last day here. If you'll get a haircut, I'll buy you a suit. I wish my dad were here tonight. This is one of the only times I've had one of these on, and I think he'd kind of like it. So he took me to Maria some restaurant in San Jose where they made pies and he bought me a pie. I hate pie. I don't eat pie. And he made me stand in front of his house, i', with my new suit and my short, short army cut, holding this cardboard box with a pie inside. Say cheese. Pretty cheesy
And I flew back to Los Angeles on PSA Airlines, back when it was something like seventeen dollars to fly it one way. And I wrote this song, about my haircut, and how much I loved my dad and wanted to please him, even though I knew my hair was gonna grow back. And I went down to L.A. and I was offered the lead role, one of several lead roles, in the musical Hair. I thought, wow, I don't even have any. But some people have asked me at different times, what is this song about? It has so much feeling in it. And I don't really tell them, I don't want to disappoint them that I was sitting on the plane, writing it out on the flight [Spoken, by Larry]
I am a servant, I am listening for my name
I sit here waiting, I've been looking at this game
That I keep playing, and I keep staying much the same
When you are lonely, you're the only one to blame
I am a servant, I am listening for your call
I've been unfaithful and now I stand here in this hall
How can you use me if I've never given all
I-how can you choose me if you know I'll quickly fall
So you touch my soul, you help me grow
You let me know you love me
I might feel worthless now, so help me make a vow
To humbly bow before thee
And please use me, I feel lonely
I am a servant, getting ready for my part
There's been a change, a rearrangement in my heart
At last I'm learning there's no returning once I start
To live's a privilege, to love is such an art
But I need your help to start
Oh please purify my heart
I am your servant
You want me to stay switched in? [Spoken, by Dan Cutrona
Maybe I Am A Servant. Do you know that one? [Spoken, by Larry]
Uuh, yeah [Spoken, by Dan Cutrona]
Can I get a, can I get a microphone stand that, on a boom? I could use this one if it [Spoken, by Larry]
Went to visit my parents. I was in Capitol Records, I had been signed to 'em for a few years. There's no follow spot I don't think, I'm just, just don't wanna keep on standing in one place. And uh my dad said to me in 1968, I'll tell you what Larry, today's your last day here. If you'll get a haircut, I'll buy you a suit. I wish my dad were here tonight. This is one of the only times I've had one of these on, and I think he'd kind of like it. So he took me to Maria some restaurant in San Jose where they made pies and he bought me a pie. I hate pie. I don't eat pie. And he made me stand in front of his house, i', with my new suit and my short, short army cut, holding this cardboard box with a pie inside. Say cheese. Pretty cheesy
And I flew back to Los Angeles on PSA Airlines, back when it was something like seventeen dollars to fly it one way. And I wrote this song, about my haircut, and how much I loved my dad and wanted to please him, even though I knew my hair was gonna grow back. And I went down to L.A. and I was offered the lead role, one of several lead roles, in the musical Hair. I thought, wow, I don't even have any. But some people have asked me at different times, what is this song about? It has so much feeling in it. And I don't really tell them, I don't want to disappoint them that I was sitting on the plane, writing it out on the flight [Spoken, by Larry]
I am a servant, I am listening for my name
I sit here waiting, I've been looking at this game
That I keep playing, and I keep staying much the same
When you are lonely, you're the only one to blame
I am a servant, I am listening for your call
I've been unfaithful and now I stand here in this hall
How can you use me if I've never given all
I-how can you choose me if you know I'll quickly fall
So you touch my soul, you help me grow
You let me know you love me
I might feel worthless now, so help me make a vow
To humbly bow before thee
And please use me, I feel lonely
I am a servant, getting ready for my part
There's been a change, a rearrangement in my heart
At last I'm learning there's no returning once I start
To live's a privilege, to love is such an art
But I need your help to start
Oh please purify my heart
I am your servant
You want me to stay switched in? [Spoken, by Dan Cutrona
i'm so glad i'm standing here today
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There were times
I remember I had to fight
Just to hold my head up
When even my best friends
Tried to make a fool of me
But there was something in my heart
That they just couldn't see
Some said that I was hopeless
Blind, tangled in the night
Strong hearts just keep on going
And I'm so glad I am standing here tonight
Come together
Lift up your voices
This time my song of life and love
Won't fade away
I'll stand forever in God's sunshine
I've lived to see the star break through the clouds and
I'm so glad I'm standing still today
If you're lost in your troubles
And the world seems to just forget you
If you look for the light
Even in your darkest day
And follow your heart
Then you will find the way
Some said that I was hopeless
Blind, tangled in the night
But strong hearts just keep on going
And that is why I am standing here tonight
Come together
Lift up your voices
This time our song of life and love won't fade away
We'll stand together in God's great kingdom
We've lived to see the light break through the storm
I'm so glad we're standing still today
We've lived to see the storm
And the light break through
It's a golden morn
And it waits for you
And I'm so glad we're standing today
[Clears throat]
There were times
I remember I had to fight
Just to hold my head up
When even my best friends
Tried to make a fool of me
But there was something in my heart
That they just couldn't see
Some said that I was hopeless
Blind, tangled in the night
Strong hearts just keep on going
And I'm so glad I am standing here tonight
Come together
Lift up your voices
This time my song of life and love
Won't fade away
I'll stand forever in God's sunshine
I've lived to see the star break through the clouds and
I'm so glad I'm standing still today
If you're lost in your troubles
And the world seems to just forget you
If you look for the light
Even in your darkest day
And follow your heart
Then you will find the way
Some said that I was hopeless
Blind, tangled in the night
But strong hearts just keep on going
And that is why I am standing here tonight
Come together
Lift up your voices
This time our song of life and love won't fade away
We'll stand together in God's great kingdom
We've lived to see the light break through the storm
I'm so glad we're standing still today
We've lived to see the storm
And the light break through
It's a golden morn
And it waits for you
And I'm so glad we're standing today
[Clears throat]
piano
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[Coughs] You know, I've been alone for a long time in my life, long segment, segments of time and, and em feeling all alone from the age of eh nine when I started writing these songs and singing them in school during lunch hour, and then trying to sing them at the church, and being told that that's not music and that God doesn't like that kind of music, and for fifteen years, just feeling that nobody understood what I was feeling. And what I was feeling was what the choir sang, the blind boys from Liberia, that's what I was feeling. And that's the kind of music I heard, because my grandfather had been in Vaudeville, he had a lot of 78s of Bert Williams and other great artists singing black gospel music. And that's all I was trying to do was write black gospel music. I only knew a few chords and it always came out sounding white
And sometimes my ukulele was the only friend I had. I didn't play outside a lot, I, I'd get beat up a lot. And um, a', at first I lived in an all black neighbourhood, and you know how kids fight and, and so, I'd get beat up. I was more noticeable and. One kid, one day he said are you an albino? I said no, I'm a Norman, we live in the corner house. And sometimes at night, I'd come back to my little apartment and I'd just, [plays a few notes] just try to put what I was feeling down, and not really be sure what the notes are called, and I just knew that this finger position to the left of those three black ones is, that's good. And this other one, it's not that it's bad, but I can't use it. Maybe someday I'll write a song that has that chord in it. And I did, it was called The Last Supper. You remember that song? It's the one where I [plays discordant notes] end up this. And that's, that's music too [Spoken]
[Sighs]
It's the evening of my day
No one left to say goodbye to
Except for you
Piano
You're not listening anyway
You're not even going to try to
Are ya [Spoken]
But this song is for you
Dear piano
Seems like it always ends up with me
Spinning my piano stool
While you just sit there
Grinning like a fool
But this last song I'd like to play
Don't wanna keep you up all night though
I'll make it short
And mellow
I feel tired in my own way
I will try to stay upright though
Just like you
Piano
Keep on smiling and we'll make it through
Keep on smiling and we'll pull each other through
And then softly we'll sing our closing number
And then fade, fade away
[Coughs] You know, I've been alone for a long time in my life, long segment, segments of time and, and em feeling all alone from the age of eh nine when I started writing these songs and singing them in school during lunch hour, and then trying to sing them at the church, and being told that that's not music and that God doesn't like that kind of music, and for fifteen years, just feeling that nobody understood what I was feeling. And what I was feeling was what the choir sang, the blind boys from Liberia, that's what I was feeling. And that's the kind of music I heard, because my grandfather had been in Vaudeville, he had a lot of 78s of Bert Williams and other great artists singing black gospel music. And that's all I was trying to do was write black gospel music. I only knew a few chords and it always came out sounding white
And sometimes my ukulele was the only friend I had. I didn't play outside a lot, I, I'd get beat up a lot. And um, a', at first I lived in an all black neighbourhood, and you know how kids fight and, and so, I'd get beat up. I was more noticeable and. One kid, one day he said are you an albino? I said no, I'm a Norman, we live in the corner house. And sometimes at night, I'd come back to my little apartment and I'd just, [plays a few notes] just try to put what I was feeling down, and not really be sure what the notes are called, and I just knew that this finger position to the left of those three black ones is, that's good. And this other one, it's not that it's bad, but I can't use it. Maybe someday I'll write a song that has that chord in it. And I did, it was called The Last Supper. You remember that song? It's the one where I [plays discordant notes] end up this. And that's, that's music too [Spoken]
[Sighs]
It's the evening of my day
No one left to say goodbye to
Except for you
Piano
You're not listening anyway
You're not even going to try to
Are ya [Spoken]
But this song is for you
Dear piano
Seems like it always ends up with me
Spinning my piano stool
While you just sit there
Grinning like a fool
But this last song I'd like to play
Don't wanna keep you up all night though
I'll make it short
And mellow
I feel tired in my own way
I will try to stay upright though
Just like you
Piano
Keep on smiling and we'll make it through
Keep on smiling and we'll pull each other through
And then softly we'll sing our closing number
And then fade, fade away
dance before the throne ***
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You know my feet are on the rock, my name is on the roll
Moving and a grooving it don't satisfy your soul
But if you're down, go off on your own
If you feel the need just dance before the throne
The people at my s', church
My friends down at the s' school
They look at me like I'm crazy
Man they think that I'm a fool
But I believe, I believe and I believe someone rolled away the stone
I feel like dancing before the throne
Take it easy, nice and slow
Feel his presence, don’t you know
If he says follow, I will go
I feel like dancing, ‘cause he saved my soul
Goliath had a sword, David had a stone
I have got the Lord so I am not alone
If you knock me down brother
I will not fight you back
'Cause God loves all his children
Red, white, yellow, brown and black
My feet are on the rock, my name is on the roll
Moving and a grooving, it just don't satisfy my soul
When I’m sad, go into my room, just get away, off on my own
That's right man
When I feel the love I dance before the throne
Woo woo
Woo hoo
Woo hoo
You know my feet are on the rock, my name is on the roll
Moving and a grooving it don't satisfy your soul
But if you're down, go off on your own
If you feel the need just dance before the throne
The people at my s', church
My friends down at the s' school
They look at me like I'm crazy
Man they think that I'm a fool
But I believe, I believe and I believe someone rolled away the stone
I feel like dancing before the throne
Take it easy, nice and slow
Feel his presence, don’t you know
If he says follow, I will go
I feel like dancing, ‘cause he saved my soul
Goliath had a sword, David had a stone
I have got the Lord so I am not alone
If you knock me down brother
I will not fight you back
'Cause God loves all his children
Red, white, yellow, brown and black
My feet are on the rock, my name is on the roll
Moving and a grooving, it just don't satisfy my soul
When I’m sad, go into my room, just get away, off on my own
That's right man
When I feel the love I dance before the throne
Woo woo
Woo hoo
Woo hoo
nobody's fault but mine ***
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Woo hoo
[Stage chatter, very faint]
[Mark]
I've got a bible in my home
I got a bible in my home
I don't read my bible now, y' hear
Nobody's fault but my own
[Larry]
I got a lord who hears prayers
I've got a god who hears prayer
If I don't pray to the Lord well
It's nobody's fault but mine
Nobody's fault but mine
[Mark]
System taught me how to read
System taught me how to write
I don't read my bible now yeah
Nobody's fault but mine
Yeah nobody's fault but mine
[Larry]
I got the spirit in my heart
Yes I got the spirit in my heart
So if my heart falters with fear then
It's nobody's fault but mine
[Larry]
You've got a ticket for the train
You've got a ticket for the train
Get onboard with the Lord
Or it's nobody's fault but thine
Yeah nobody's fault, uh uh uh uh nobody's fault
[Stage chatter]
Woo hoo
[Stage chatter, very faint]
[Mark]
I've got a bible in my home
I got a bible in my home
I don't read my bible now, y' hear
Nobody's fault but my own
[Larry]
I got a lord who hears prayers
I've got a god who hears prayer
If I don't pray to the Lord well
It's nobody's fault but mine
Nobody's fault but mine
[Mark]
System taught me how to read
System taught me how to write
I don't read my bible now yeah
Nobody's fault but mine
Yeah nobody's fault but mine
[Larry]
I got the spirit in my heart
Yes I got the spirit in my heart
So if my heart falters with fear then
It's nobody's fault but mine
[Larry]
You've got a ticket for the train
You've got a ticket for the train
Get onboard with the Lord
Or it's nobody's fault but thine
Yeah nobody's fault, uh uh uh uh nobody's fault
[Stage chatter]
can't get that stuff no more ***
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On a hot night in the South, two friends can be sitting on a porch trying to stay [sighs] cool and, and just kinda talking about what's on their mind, what's on their heart and, and eh you know, if you love somebody, you're not always just like them. Sometimes you have different things that you're focused on. And uh this song is something we put together about eh two great friends. Two different roads they're walking down. And I'm not sure that they even listen to each other all the time. But they love each other [Spoken, by Larry]
Houston, where's our drummer? [Spoken, by Mark Lemhouse]
Oh, Jason [Spoken, by Larry]
Start it [Spoken, by Jason Carter]
Oh, that's okay. Not, no sticks, just brushes [Spoken, by Larry]
[Mark]
Bootleg Sam used to live 'cross town
Law took that whiskey man and they shut him down
An' they can't get the stuff no more
No you can't get that stuff no more
No matter how you try boy
Can't get that stuff no more
[Larry]
Yeah I know what you mean, exactly what you mean
I go to church, I wanna hear some preaching
I hear a lotta talking but I don't hear no teaching
You can't get good stuff
You cannot get good stuff no more
Well it's pretty hard, it breaks my heart
When I can't get that good stuff no more
[Mark]
Get on Main, take a right
Find that place man, let you go all night
Can't get the stuff no more
No you can't get that stuff no more
No matter how you try boy
Can't get that stuff no more
You can't get it
[Larry]
Yeah I hear ya, I hear ya
You know, I love to read the bible so
Then they said we'll sell you this other christian book
And all I really learned from it
Was my two dollars they took
(Shoot) [Mark]
You can't get
Y'
You can't, you can't get no stuff
Breaks my heart
You can't get no good stuff no more
Yeah yeah yeah
That's okay, come on in here Larry [Spoken, by Mark]
Is it okay if I get another one, I'm thinking we could still get that? [Spoken, by Mark]
No you can't get that stuff no more [Mark]
Yeah baby I hear you, you know just can't [Larry]
Can't get that stuff no more [Mark] / Get the stuff no more [Larry]
No you can't get that stuff no more [Mark] / No you can't, get the stuff [Larry]
Yeah you can't get that stuff no more [Mark] / No more [Larry]
No matter how you try boy [Mark] / No matter, yeah [Larry]
You can't get that stuff no more [Mark]
Can't, can't get it, can't get that stuff [Larry]
[Stage chatter]
This is Mark Lemhouse, playing the guitar. He was nominated for two WC Handy Blues Awards last year [Spoken, by Larry]
[Stage chatter]
And eh, Etta James and em, oh Dr John, BB King, em, he was just a-right alongside them and I, so I said well man, what was it like, th', w', was it fun? And he goes aw man, BB King took the last sandwich. You can't get that good stuff no mo' [Spoken, by Larry]
On a hot night in the South, two friends can be sitting on a porch trying to stay [sighs] cool and, and just kinda talking about what's on their mind, what's on their heart and, and eh you know, if you love somebody, you're not always just like them. Sometimes you have different things that you're focused on. And uh this song is something we put together about eh two great friends. Two different roads they're walking down. And I'm not sure that they even listen to each other all the time. But they love each other [Spoken, by Larry]
Houston, where's our drummer? [Spoken, by Mark Lemhouse]
Oh, Jason [Spoken, by Larry]
Start it [Spoken, by Jason Carter]
Oh, that's okay. Not, no sticks, just brushes [Spoken, by Larry]
[Mark]
Bootleg Sam used to live 'cross town
Law took that whiskey man and they shut him down
An' they can't get the stuff no more
No you can't get that stuff no more
No matter how you try boy
Can't get that stuff no more
[Larry]
Yeah I know what you mean, exactly what you mean
I go to church, I wanna hear some preaching
I hear a lotta talking but I don't hear no teaching
You can't get good stuff
You cannot get good stuff no more
Well it's pretty hard, it breaks my heart
When I can't get that good stuff no more
[Mark]
Get on Main, take a right
Find that place man, let you go all night
Can't get the stuff no more
No you can't get that stuff no more
No matter how you try boy
Can't get that stuff no more
You can't get it
[Larry]
Yeah I hear ya, I hear ya
You know, I love to read the bible so
Then they said we'll sell you this other christian book
And all I really learned from it
Was my two dollars they took
(Shoot) [Mark]
You can't get
Y'
You can't, you can't get no stuff
Breaks my heart
You can't get no good stuff no more
Yeah yeah yeah
That's okay, come on in here Larry [Spoken, by Mark]
Is it okay if I get another one, I'm thinking we could still get that? [Spoken, by Mark]
No you can't get that stuff no more [Mark]
Yeah baby I hear you, you know just can't [Larry]
Can't get that stuff no more [Mark] / Get the stuff no more [Larry]
No you can't get that stuff no more [Mark] / No you can't, get the stuff [Larry]
Yeah you can't get that stuff no more [Mark] / No more [Larry]
No matter how you try boy [Mark] / No matter, yeah [Larry]
You can't get that stuff no more [Mark]
Can't, can't get it, can't get that stuff [Larry]
[Stage chatter]
This is Mark Lemhouse, playing the guitar. He was nominated for two WC Handy Blues Awards last year [Spoken, by Larry]
[Stage chatter]
And eh, Etta James and em, oh Dr John, BB King, em, he was just a-right alongside them and I, so I said well man, what was it like, th', w', was it fun? And he goes aw man, BB King took the last sandwich. You can't get that good stuff no mo' [Spoken, by Larry]
why don't you look into jesus ***
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[Coughs]
Pardon me [Spoken, by Larry]
Start [Spoken]
You want me to check the ??? [Spoken, by Kristin]
Yeah. 'Cause it, it just, they got one of these lights that creates big, shadow. Yeah. You could put it on when I'm not looking. Woo, Is it hot out there tonight? Boy, it's hot up here. At least that's our goal. Oh, what's that? Oh, Charley? [Spoken, by Larry]
A guitar [Spoken, by Charles]
Ha [Spoken, by Gary]
Oh, okay, okay. Well, thank you so much for coming to the concert. I, I know I'm dancing around and I'm a bit more restrained than maybe you've seen me with other bands. I just can't, get that stuff no mo'. I have to be careful and uh I, I just realised a', I'm, I better not put it off until next year what I probably oughta do this year. So uh we're doing this concert in America and then we're going to Europe and do a concert in Norway at a big festival there they have every year. And I've, I've been going to this festival off and on for twenty five years, and so they wanted us to be the head attraction, and then we're gonna go to someplace else. I can't tell you about it right now. You can read the website. I mean you're not gonna fly over to... [Spoken, by Larry]
England [Spoken, by Kristin and Larry simultaneously]
Ha ha ha ha ha [Spoken, by Kristin]
Oh [Spoken]
So um, keep in touch with me by email, you know I actually answer my emails. I might be one of the only artists stupid enough to do it [Spoken, by Larry]
That's why we love you [Spoken, by audience member]
Thank you. Well we get like four or five hundred emails a week, and I cannot keep up with that. I just work at night, back my rock and roll hours, you know after the show. Now there is no show, but I'm still up, trying to get tired enough to fall asleep. So that's when I answer the email. So uh, please feel free to write, you know. W', we have the prayer list on the net. W', w', we just wanna be connected to people, we want people to pray for people, w'. You know, we're trying to be a real life family, family of God. We're not trying to be us, separation, you. We're trying to mix it all up. And you know, w', I've been warned for years, don't do that, don't get too close to the fans and, like, whatever. I've never done what I'm supposed to, I'll do what I want now
Okay, this is, uh, a song for you. Oh, the piano set was for my mom, and my dad, and my, my great memories of childhood. And this portion of the concert is for you [Spoken, by Larry]
Sipping whiskey from a paper cup
You drown your sorrows till you can't stand up
Take a look at what you done to yourself
Why don't ya, put the bottle back on the shelf
Yellow fingered from your cigarettes
Your hands are shaking while your body sweats
Why don't you look into Jesus
He got the answer
You got gonorrhea on Valentine’s day
You're still look for perfect lay
You think that rock and roll will set you free
You'll be deaf before you're thirty three
Shoot junk till you're half insane
Broken needle in your purple vein
Why don't you look into Jesus
He's got the answer
Work all night
Sleep all day
Take your money
Throw it all away
You say you're gonna be a superstar
But you never hung around enough
To find out who you really are
A-think back to when you were a child
Your soul was free, your heart ran wild
Each day was different, life was a thrill
You knew tomorrow would be better still
Things have changed, you're much older now
If you're unhappy and you don't know how
Why don't you look into Jesus
He's got the answer
Why don't you look into Jesus
Got the answer yeah yeah (He's got the answer)
I tell ya, why don't you look into Jesus
He's got the answer
Yes he does, yes he does
(Why don't you look into Jesus)
Got the answer (He's got the answer)
He's got the
You need the
He is ye-eh-ye-eh-eh-eh-eh
The answer
[Stage chatter]
[Coughs]
Pardon me [Spoken, by Larry]
Start [Spoken]
You want me to check the ??? [Spoken, by Kristin]
Yeah. 'Cause it, it just, they got one of these lights that creates big, shadow. Yeah. You could put it on when I'm not looking. Woo, Is it hot out there tonight? Boy, it's hot up here. At least that's our goal. Oh, what's that? Oh, Charley? [Spoken, by Larry]
A guitar [Spoken, by Charles]
Ha [Spoken, by Gary]
Oh, okay, okay. Well, thank you so much for coming to the concert. I, I know I'm dancing around and I'm a bit more restrained than maybe you've seen me with other bands. I just can't, get that stuff no mo'. I have to be careful and uh I, I just realised a', I'm, I better not put it off until next year what I probably oughta do this year. So uh we're doing this concert in America and then we're going to Europe and do a concert in Norway at a big festival there they have every year. And I've, I've been going to this festival off and on for twenty five years, and so they wanted us to be the head attraction, and then we're gonna go to someplace else. I can't tell you about it right now. You can read the website. I mean you're not gonna fly over to... [Spoken, by Larry]
England [Spoken, by Kristin and Larry simultaneously]
Ha ha ha ha ha [Spoken, by Kristin]
Oh [Spoken]
So um, keep in touch with me by email, you know I actually answer my emails. I might be one of the only artists stupid enough to do it [Spoken, by Larry]
That's why we love you [Spoken, by audience member]
Thank you. Well we get like four or five hundred emails a week, and I cannot keep up with that. I just work at night, back my rock and roll hours, you know after the show. Now there is no show, but I'm still up, trying to get tired enough to fall asleep. So that's when I answer the email. So uh, please feel free to write, you know. W', we have the prayer list on the net. W', w', we just wanna be connected to people, we want people to pray for people, w'. You know, we're trying to be a real life family, family of God. We're not trying to be us, separation, you. We're trying to mix it all up. And you know, w', I've been warned for years, don't do that, don't get too close to the fans and, like, whatever. I've never done what I'm supposed to, I'll do what I want now
Okay, this is, uh, a song for you. Oh, the piano set was for my mom, and my dad, and my, my great memories of childhood. And this portion of the concert is for you [Spoken, by Larry]
Sipping whiskey from a paper cup
You drown your sorrows till you can't stand up
Take a look at what you done to yourself
Why don't ya, put the bottle back on the shelf
Yellow fingered from your cigarettes
Your hands are shaking while your body sweats
Why don't you look into Jesus
He got the answer
You got gonorrhea on Valentine’s day
You're still look for perfect lay
You think that rock and roll will set you free
You'll be deaf before you're thirty three
Shoot junk till you're half insane
Broken needle in your purple vein
Why don't you look into Jesus
He's got the answer
Work all night
Sleep all day
Take your money
Throw it all away
You say you're gonna be a superstar
But you never hung around enough
To find out who you really are
A-think back to when you were a child
Your soul was free, your heart ran wild
Each day was different, life was a thrill
You knew tomorrow would be better still
Things have changed, you're much older now
If you're unhappy and you don't know how
Why don't you look into Jesus
He's got the answer
Why don't you look into Jesus
Got the answer yeah yeah (He's got the answer)
I tell ya, why don't you look into Jesus
He's got the answer
Yes he does, yes he does
(Why don't you look into Jesus)
Got the answer (He's got the answer)
He's got the
You need the
He is ye-eh-ye-eh-eh-eh-eh
The answer
[Stage chatter]
watch what you're doing ***
[Go to Song Page]
I got a friend, I love the guy. Eh, whenever he's performing I, I like to go see him. Even if it's a week later I'd do it. I'd do it. I would. I'd do it. And I, and I, and I love him and I wanted him to be part of this final show. And he was on tour and he was able to take a break at just this time, so I thank the Lord that the Lord's artist calendar is, is really nailed. And em, Frank Black sings with The Pixies and plays guitar and sings and, I, I want him to p', be part of this evening so uh, Frank Black [Spoken]
[Frank]
More guitar
[Larry]
Mmm, mama killed a chicken, she thought it was a duck
She put it on the table with its legs sticking up
Papa broke his glasses when he fell down drunk
Tried to drown the kitty cat, turned out to be a skunk
You gotta watch what you're doing
Yeah you gotta watch what you're doing
[Frank]
Little Joe Billy went fishing for trout
Played hooky from school 'til the cops found out
He never had a father, he was an only child
And his mama never beat him so he grew up wild
You gotta watch what you're doing
[Both]
Don't you know
[Larry]
You gotta watch what you're doing
Well, I knew a girl, sweet as could be
But she fell for a man like a chain sawed tree
She listened to his lies, was fooled by his charms
Now she's sitting with a baby in her arms
You gotta watch what you're doing (Watch what you're doing [Frank])
Yeah
You gotta know where you're going (Going [Frank])
(Do you [Frank])
You gotta watch what you're doing
[Frank]
Well everything's fine till things get bad
Until you sit around talking 'bout the good times you had
But it ain't no good to lead a life of sin
If you don't shape up you know you'll never get in
You gotta watch what you're doing
(Amen [Larry])
[Both]
You gotta know where you're going
[Frank]
Do you know
A-some folks smile and they seem alright
'Til you later find out there was an angel of light
You try to love everybody but don't be blind
'Cause some kind of people try to mess your mind
Gotta watch who you do
[Larry]
Yeah
[Both]
Watch what you're doing
[Larry]
Yeah he-he-hey
Some people say that God is dead
That he doesn't exist except inside your head
I wonder how many gonna be surprised
When they look straight up and see him coming through the skies (Look straight up and see him coming through the skies [Frank])
You gotta watch out, watch out, watch out, watch out
Gotta watch what you're doing
That's what I say
You gotta watch what you're doing (Watch what you're doing [Frank])
Wo oh
Yeah (Yeah [Frank])
Yeah ye-eh-eh
Wo-oh oh-ah
[Frank]
C'mon pilgrim, you know he loves you
[Larry]
Yeah yeah
You gotta watch what you're doing (Gotta watch what you do [Frank])
Gotta know where you're going
Do you know where you're going (What you do [Frank])
Huh
You gotta watch what you're doing (What you do [Frank])
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Watch what you're doing (What you do [Frank])
Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh
You gotta watch what you're doing (What you do [Frank])
Look out, look out, look out
I got a friend, I love the guy. Eh, whenever he's performing I, I like to go see him. Even if it's a week later I'd do it. I'd do it. I would. I'd do it. And I, and I, and I love him and I wanted him to be part of this final show. And he was on tour and he was able to take a break at just this time, so I thank the Lord that the Lord's artist calendar is, is really nailed. And em, Frank Black sings with The Pixies and plays guitar and sings and, I, I want him to p', be part of this evening so uh, Frank Black [Spoken]
[Frank]
More guitar
[Larry]
Mmm, mama killed a chicken, she thought it was a duck
She put it on the table with its legs sticking up
Papa broke his glasses when he fell down drunk
Tried to drown the kitty cat, turned out to be a skunk
You gotta watch what you're doing
Yeah you gotta watch what you're doing
[Frank]
Little Joe Billy went fishing for trout
Played hooky from school 'til the cops found out
He never had a father, he was an only child
And his mama never beat him so he grew up wild
You gotta watch what you're doing
[Both]
Don't you know
[Larry]
You gotta watch what you're doing
Well, I knew a girl, sweet as could be
But she fell for a man like a chain sawed tree
She listened to his lies, was fooled by his charms
Now she's sitting with a baby in her arms
You gotta watch what you're doing (Watch what you're doing [Frank])
Yeah
You gotta know where you're going (Going [Frank])
(Do you [Frank])
You gotta watch what you're doing
[Frank]
Well everything's fine till things get bad
Until you sit around talking 'bout the good times you had
But it ain't no good to lead a life of sin
If you don't shape up you know you'll never get in
You gotta watch what you're doing
(Amen [Larry])
[Both]
You gotta know where you're going
[Frank]
Do you know
A-some folks smile and they seem alright
'Til you later find out there was an angel of light
You try to love everybody but don't be blind
'Cause some kind of people try to mess your mind
Gotta watch who you do
[Larry]
Yeah
[Both]
Watch what you're doing
[Larry]
Yeah he-he-hey
Some people say that God is dead
That he doesn't exist except inside your head
I wonder how many gonna be surprised
When they look straight up and see him coming through the skies (Look straight up and see him coming through the skies [Frank])
You gotta watch out, watch out, watch out, watch out
Gotta watch what you're doing
That's what I say
You gotta watch what you're doing (Watch what you're doing [Frank])
Wo oh
Yeah (Yeah [Frank])
Yeah ye-eh-eh
Wo-oh oh-ah
[Frank]
C'mon pilgrim, you know he loves you
[Larry]
Yeah yeah
You gotta watch what you're doing (Gotta watch what you do [Frank])
Gotta know where you're going
Do you know where you're going (What you do [Frank])
Huh
You gotta watch what you're doing (What you do [Frank])
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Watch what you're doing (What you do [Frank])
Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh
You gotta watch what you're doing (What you do [Frank])
Look out, look out, look out
twelve good men ***
[Go to Song Page]
[Stage chatter]
You need twelve good men
I can only find eleven
I had six young lions
But I kept waiting for number seven
I may be living down here on earth
But I am living for heaven
I got a woman I'm in love with
There ain't no need to say her name
No
And no matter what might happen
You know I'm always gonna love her just the same
Love is like, love is like meeting an angel from heav', I mean love's so hard to explain
Love is like an eagle
Or a sparrow with a hawk
Yeah love is like a butterfly
Or a serpent on a rock
I can't say I understand it
But that's the way that Solomon used to talk
I got this black leather jacket
I've worn throughout my youth
I like to stand on the street corner and preach
Sometimes I feel just like William Booth
Yeah amen and amen
So don't ask me nothing about nothing
I just might tell you the truth
Woo
[Stage chatter]
You need twelve good men
I can only find eleven
I had six young lions
But I kept waiting for number seven
I may be living down here on earth
But I am living for heaven
I got a woman I'm in love with
There ain't no need to say her name
No
And no matter what might happen
You know I'm always gonna love her just the same
Love is like, love is like meeting an angel from heav', I mean love's so hard to explain
Love is like an eagle
Or a sparrow with a hawk
Yeah love is like a butterfly
Or a serpent on a rock
I can't say I understand it
But that's the way that Solomon used to talk
I got this black leather jacket
I've worn throughout my youth
I like to stand on the street corner and preach
Sometimes I feel just like William Booth
Yeah amen and amen
So don't ask me nothing about nothing
I just might tell you the truth
Woo
the last time ***
[Go to Song Page]
[Stage chatter]
Charles, what's next? [Spoken]
The Last Time [Spoken, by Charles]
What? [Spoken]
The Last Time [Spoken, by Charles]
I don't know what's next. I, I, I wouldn't mind if it was the rapture [Spoken, by Larry]
The Last Time [Spoken]
Oh-kay yeah. I used to know this song. Well, anyway, we have to be out of here by a certain time. And eh, a', as far as I can tell, this is the last time I'll be able to sing in, in America and i', in Europe and uh uh planet Earth too. And, well this could be the last time, so, I love you so much for coming. Thank you for the whatever you've sacrificed to get here [Spoken, by Larry]
You'll always be singing in our hearts Larry [Spoken, by Gary Pomeroy]
We love you Larry [Spoken, by audience member]
You're welcome, you're welcome. The last time, the last time [Spoken, by Larry]
No surprise [Spoken, by audience member]
Well I told you once and I told you twice
But you never listen to my advice
You don't try very hard to please me
And with what you know it should be easy
Oh this could be the last time
This could be the last time
Maybe the last time
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know
Sorry girl but I can't stay
Feeling like I do today
Too much pain and too much sorrow
I guess I'll feel the same tomorrow
This could be the last time
This could be the last time
Maybe the last time
I don't know
I don't know
Well I told you once and I told you twice
One of us is gonna have to pay the price
Now here's a chance to change your mind
'Cause I'll be gone a long, long time
Yeah this could be the last time
This could be the last time
Maybe the last time
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know
When I'm driving around the world
And I'm doing this and I'm signing that
And I'm trying to meet some girl
Who says baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby
Yeah, oh yeah I can't get no
No satisfaction
No satisfaction
Well hey hey hey
Tell me what I say
I can't get no
No satisfaction
Satisfaction
No satisfaction
[Stage chatter]
Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Thank you. God bless you [Spoken]
[Stage chatter]
Charles, what's next? [Spoken]
The Last Time [Spoken, by Charles]
What? [Spoken]
The Last Time [Spoken, by Charles]
I don't know what's next. I, I, I wouldn't mind if it was the rapture [Spoken, by Larry]
The Last Time [Spoken]
Oh-kay yeah. I used to know this song. Well, anyway, we have to be out of here by a certain time. And eh, a', as far as I can tell, this is the last time I'll be able to sing in, in America and i', in Europe and uh uh planet Earth too. And, well this could be the last time, so, I love you so much for coming. Thank you for the whatever you've sacrificed to get here [Spoken, by Larry]
You'll always be singing in our hearts Larry [Spoken, by Gary Pomeroy]
We love you Larry [Spoken, by audience member]
You're welcome, you're welcome. The last time, the last time [Spoken, by Larry]
No surprise [Spoken, by audience member]
Well I told you once and I told you twice
But you never listen to my advice
You don't try very hard to please me
And with what you know it should be easy
Oh this could be the last time
This could be the last time
Maybe the last time
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know
Sorry girl but I can't stay
Feeling like I do today
Too much pain and too much sorrow
I guess I'll feel the same tomorrow
This could be the last time
This could be the last time
Maybe the last time
I don't know
I don't know
Well I told you once and I told you twice
One of us is gonna have to pay the price
Now here's a chance to change your mind
'Cause I'll be gone a long, long time
Yeah this could be the last time
This could be the last time
Maybe the last time
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know
When I'm driving around the world
And I'm doing this and I'm signing that
And I'm trying to meet some girl
Who says baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby
Yeah, oh yeah I can't get no
No satisfaction
No satisfaction
Well hey hey hey
Tell me what I say
I can't get no
No satisfaction
Satisfaction
No satisfaction
[Stage chatter]
Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Thank you. God bless you [Spoken]
why should the devil have all the good music ***
[Go to Song Page]
A one two a one two three
I want the people to know
That he saved my soul
But I still like to listen to the radio
They say rock and roll is wrong
We'll give you one more chance
I say I feel so good I'm gonna get up and dance
I know what's right, I know what's wrong
I don't confuse it
All I'm really trying to say is
Why should the devil have all the good music
I feel good every day
Jesus is the rock and he rolled my blues away
Say to cut my hair
They're driving me insane
I grew it out long to make room for my brain
Sometimes people don't understand
They say what's a good boy doing in a rock and roll band
There's nothing wrong or evil about playing blues
All I'm really trying to say is
Why should the devil have all the good music
There's nothing wrong with what we play, aah
Jesus is the rock, rolled my blues away
Allright
Hey man, I'm not knocking the hymns
Just give me a song that has a beat
I don't like some of those funeral marches
I ain't, I ain't dead yet
(Hallelujah)
Wow
Jesus told the truth
Jesus showed the way
There's one more thing I'd like to say
Nailed him to the cross
And they laid him in the ground
You know you shoulda known you can't keep a good man down
I feel good every day
I don't wanna lose it
All I'm really trying to say
Why should the devil have all the good music
I've been blessed in every way
Said Jesus is the rock and he rolled my blues
Jesus is the rock and he rolled my blues
Jesus is the rock and he rolled my blues away
Woo
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
God bless you, bye [Spoken]
A one two a one two three
I want the people to know
That he saved my soul
But I still like to listen to the radio
They say rock and roll is wrong
We'll give you one more chance
I say I feel so good I'm gonna get up and dance
I know what's right, I know what's wrong
I don't confuse it
All I'm really trying to say is
Why should the devil have all the good music
I feel good every day
Jesus is the rock and he rolled my blues away
Say to cut my hair
They're driving me insane
I grew it out long to make room for my brain
Sometimes people don't understand
They say what's a good boy doing in a rock and roll band
There's nothing wrong or evil about playing blues
All I'm really trying to say is
Why should the devil have all the good music
There's nothing wrong with what we play, aah
Jesus is the rock, rolled my blues away
Allright
Hey man, I'm not knocking the hymns
Just give me a song that has a beat
I don't like some of those funeral marches
I ain't, I ain't dead yet
(Hallelujah)
Wow
Jesus told the truth
Jesus showed the way
There's one more thing I'd like to say
Nailed him to the cross
And they laid him in the ground
You know you shoulda known you can't keep a good man down
I feel good every day
I don't wanna lose it
All I'm really trying to say
Why should the devil have all the good music
I've been blessed in every way
Said Jesus is the rock and he rolled my blues
Jesus is the rock and he rolled my blues
Jesus is the rock and he rolled my blues away
Woo
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
God bless you, bye [Spoken]
*, ** and *** denote songs that are combined into a single track on the CD. Note also that there is a significant volume decrease after Can't Get That Stuff No More, as Larry's brother Charles was then on stage and thus unable to control the recording. The band set mix (as recorded) is a bit 'off', something that was addressed on the subsequent DVD release
Solid Rock Records, No catalog number [June 24 2005, USA, CDR]
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