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♪
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[resonant strings lead
building orchestration]
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(male narrator)
Welcome toOur State,
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a production of UNC-TV
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in association
withOur Statemagazine--
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for over 80 years,
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bringing readers
the wonders of North Carolina.
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On this edition...
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(Andy Griffith)
And what I seen--
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(narrator)
...illustrator Rich Powell
draws new life
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out of Andy Griffith's
classic monologue...
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(Griffith)
Lookin' at one other
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across this pretty,
little, green cow pasture--
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[audience laughing]
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(narrator)
...Letters From Home,
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honoring veterans with music
and dance from a bygone era...
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♪ Callin' me, callin' me
to my old mountain home ♪
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(narrator)
...and the Lonesome Road Band
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serves up an earworm
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inspired by a North Carolina
mountain childhood.
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♪ I was
born ♪
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♪ Down
in North Carolina ♪
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[group harmonizing]
♪ Blue Ridge Mountains ♪
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♪ I call home ♪
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[old-time arrangement
concludes]
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♪
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(male announcer)
Since 1872,
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BB&T has been supporting
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the people and communities
of North Carolina.
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From our small-town roots
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to the banking network
you see today,
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we've always been here
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♪
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(narrator)
Meet Rich Powell,
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an illustrator
with an imagination
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that never seems
to take a rest.
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His daydreams
end up on greeting cards,
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in newspaper comics,
on T-shirts,
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even inMadmagazine.
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Some are lifelike,
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and some have
the tongue-in-cheek whimsy
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he's become known for.
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(Rich)
I would say,
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it's more of an offbeat
sense of humor,
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really kind of
a slapstick thing.
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I'm no Mark Twain
as far as the writing goes--
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heh.
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(narrator)
In time, he left
his native New Jersey
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and eventually
found our state,
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where he settled in Asheboro
and poured himself
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a healthy dose
of Southern culture.
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(Rich)
When I got here,
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I started drawing cartoons
for the local papers.
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Originally, the first cartoons
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were about humor that related
to the Southern experience.
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Started going
to a local coffee shop
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every morning to see
a group of fellas there.
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They had
a great sense of humor,
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and they gave me
so much material.
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Growin' up here,
if you had a cut,
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kerosene'll cure everything,
or they smoke this stuff
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calledrabbit tobacco
I'd never heard of
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and chiggers
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an
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d all of these things.
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There was so much material
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that it was easy.
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You could come up with a gag
by goin' for a walk.
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When the pollen comes down
here, it's so ridiculous!
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Definitely have to do
a pollen cartoon.
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So it's good to draw
what you know,
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and what I knew
at the time was,
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I was getting used
to living in the South.
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♪
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We have a wonderful
antique mall downtown,
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and on the wall
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was the record
from Andy Griffith,
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"What It Was,
Was Football."
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I didn't know about it
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until I moved
to North Carolina.
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(narrator)
Long before
The Andy Griffith Show
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made him a household name,
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Andy wrote
and began performing
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a whimsical essay
after his graduation
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from Chapel Hill in 1949.
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"What It Was, Was Football"
is the tale of a man
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who didn't know
a football game
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from a glass of sweet tea
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when he arrived unbeknownst
at the site of one
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and got swept up
in all the enthusiasm.
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(Rich)
It was a pretty
unique record, you know?
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It wasn't George Carlin,
you know?
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It was a comedy record
you could get for your family.
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Everybody could sit
and listen to it
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and get a kick out of it.
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(narrator)
Andy's down-home style
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and his description
of that fortunate dilemma
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was endearing to listeners
and started him on the road
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to becoming
a true national treasure
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when "What It Was,
Was Football"
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was first released in 1953.
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So here's what we've got:
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Andy Griffith, storyteller
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of Southern idiosyncrasies
par excellence
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and Rich Powell, illustrator
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of Southern idiosyncrasies
par excellence.
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Uh-huh, sounds like
a natural fit to me.
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[accordion concludes piece]
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(Rich)
Andy was a very tough
character to draw.
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With Andy
being like the 13th apostle
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in North Carolina,
I was pretty nervous
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about getting Andy right
but not just do
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the perfect shot
of Andy Griffith.
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You know, it has to look
like my style of cartooning.
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[acoustic guitar groove]
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(Griffith, Southern accent)
It was back last October,
I believe it was.
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We was a-gonna hold
a tent service off--
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off at this college town,
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and we gotthair
about dinnertime on Saturday.
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(Rich)
Well, you have
to pare that down.
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You gotta pick what part
of that you can draw.
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It took place in the '50s,
and it was North Carolina.
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You really had to think back
to the older days.
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When you're done
with that first sketch,
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you just like it;
it has life and energy to it.
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(Griffith)
And different ones of us
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thought that we
ought to get us
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a mouthful to eat before
that we set up the tent.
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And so we got off the truck
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and followed
this little bunch of people
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through this small, little
bitty patch of woods there,
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and we come up on a big sign.
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It says,
"Get somethin' to eat c'here."
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And, uh, I went up
and got me two hot dogs
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and a Big Orange drink,
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and before that I could take
arymouthful of that food,
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this whole raft of people
come up around me
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and got me to where I couldn't
eat nothing up like,
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and I dropped
my Big Orange drink.
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I did.
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Well, friends,
they commenced to move,
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and therewarn'tso much
that I could do
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but move with 'em.
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Well, we commenced to go
through all kinds of doors
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and gates
and I don't know what all,
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and I looked up
over one of 'em,
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and it says
"North Gate."
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And we kept on a-goin'
through there,
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and pretty soon,
we come up on a young boy,
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and he says,
"Ticket, please."
06:21.914 --> 06:24.350 align:left position:22.5%,start line:83% size:67.5%
And I says, "Friend,
I don't have a ticket.
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I don't even know
where it is that I'm a-goin'!"
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[audience laughing]
06:28.521 --> 06:29.856 align:left position:42.5%,start line:89% size:47.5%
I did.
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(Rich)
So we will get the whole story
in one picture.
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We'll have the ticket boy.
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We'll have him
being swept along,
06:36.329 --> 06:39.332 align:left position:12.5%,start line:83% size:77.5%
and we'll fill it full
of all sorts of crazy stuff...
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people's legs
and arms stickin' out.
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In the oldMads,
they'd stick a lotta stuff
06:43.569 --> 06:45.805 align:left position:17.5%,start line:5% size:72.5%
like that in there
and call it "chicken fat."
06:45.905 --> 06:48.107 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70%
So we'll throw
as much chicken fat in there
06:48.207 --> 06:50.176 align:left position:15%,start line:83% size:75%
as possible,
make it as funny as possible.
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(Griffith)
Well, he says, "Come out
as quick as you can."
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And I says, "I'll do 'er.
06:55.348 --> 06:57.917 align:left position:17.5%,start line:83% size:72.5%
I'll turn right around
the firstchance'tI get."
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[audience laughing]
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Well, we kept on a-moving
through thair,
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and pretty soon,
everybody got where it was
07:05.057 --> 07:06.459 align:left position:22.5%,start line:89% size:67.5%
that they was a-goin',
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and what I seen
was this whole raft of people
07:10.096 --> 07:13.933 align:left position:15%,start line:83% size:75%
a-settin'on these two banks
and a-lookin' at one another
07:14.033 --> 07:17.370 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70%
across this pretty,
little green cow pasture.
07:17.470 --> 07:20.273 align:left position:22.5%,start line:83% size:67.5%
And somebody had took
and drawed white lines
07:20.373 --> 07:22.708 align:left position:22.5%,start line:83% size:67.5%
all over it
and drovepostiesin it
07:22.809 --> 07:25.912 align:left position:17.5%,start line:83% size:72.5%
and I don't know what all,
and I looked down thair,
07:26.012 --> 07:28.314 align:left position:32.5%,start line:83% size:57.5%
and I seen five
or six convicts
07:28.414 --> 07:30.783 align:left position:22.5%,start line:83% size:67.5%
a-running up and down
and a-blowing whistles.
07:30.883 --> 07:32.218 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50%
They was.
07:32.318 --> 07:36.422 align:left position:15%,start line:83% size:75%
And then I looked down thair,
and I seen these pretty girls
07:36.522 --> 07:38.424 align:left position:17.5%,start line:83% size:72.5%
wearin' these
little bitty short dresses
07:38.524 --> 07:41.294 align:left position:25%,start line:83% size:65%
and a-dancin' around,
and so I sat down
07:41.394 --> 07:44.597 align:left position:15%,start line:83% size:75%
and thought I'd see what it
was that was a-gonna happen.
07:44.697 --> 07:46.899 align:left position:25%,start line:83% size:65%
And about the time
I got set down good,
07:46.999 --> 07:50.436 align:left position:22.5%,start line:83% size:67.5%
I looked down thair,
and I seen 30 or 40 men
07:50.536 --> 07:52.438 align:left position:30%,start line:83% size:60%
come runnin' out
of one end
07:52.538 --> 07:54.941 align:left position:22.5%,start line:83% size:67.5%
of a great big outhouse
down thair.
07:55.041 --> 07:57.743 align:left position:27.5%,start line:89% size:62.5%
[audience laughing]
07:57.844 --> 07:59.579 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50%
They did!
07:59.679 --> 08:01.647 align:left position:25%,start line:83% size:65%
And everybody
where I was a-settin'
08:01.747 --> 08:03.249 align:left position:25%,start line:89% size:65%
got up and hollered!
08:03.349 --> 08:06.118 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70%
And about that time,
30 or 40 come runnin' out
08:06.219 --> 08:08.221 align:left position:30%,start line:83% size:60%
of the other end
of that outhouse,
08:08.321 --> 08:11.157 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70%
and the other bankful,
they got up and hollered.
08:11.257 --> 08:12.758 align:left position:22.5%,start line:89% size:67.5%
And I asked this fella
08:12.859 --> 08:14.627 align:left position:27.5%,start line:83% size:62.5%
that wasbesettin'
beside of me.
08:14.727 --> 08:17.430 align:left position:12.5%,start line:83% size:77.5%
I says, "Friend, what is it
that they're a-hollerin' for?"
08:17.530 --> 08:19.432 align:left position:27.5%,start line:83% size:62.5%
Well, he whopped me
on the back,
08:19.532 --> 08:21.968 align:left position:22.5%,start line:83% size:67.5%
and he says,
"Buddy, have a drink!"
08:22.068 --> 08:23.469 align:left position:37.5%,start line:89% size:52.5%
[laughter]
08:23.569 --> 08:27.406 align:left position:12.5%,start line:83% size:77.5%
Well I says, "I believe I will
have another Big Orange."
08:27.507 --> 08:29.542 align:left position:37.5%,start line:89% size:52.5%
[laughter]
08:31.377 --> 08:34.647 align:left position:17.5%,start line:83% size:72.5%
And when I got thair again,
I seen that them men
08:34.747 --> 08:38.184 align:left position:17.5%,start line:83% size:72.5%
had got in two little bitty
bunches down there,
08:38.284 --> 08:40.820 align:left position:12.5%,start line:89% size:77.5%
they had,railclose together,
08:40.920 --> 08:42.522 align:left position:32.5%,start line:89% size:57.5%
and they voted.
08:42.622 --> 08:44.156 align:left position:37.5%,start line:89% size:52.5%
[laughter]
08:44.257 --> 08:45.424 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50%
They did.
08:45.525 --> 08:47.894 align:left position:17.5%,start line:83% size:72.5%
They voted
and elected one man apiece.
08:47.994 --> 08:49.662 align:left position:37.5%,start line:89% size:52.5%
[laughter]
08:49.762 --> 08:52.732 align:left position:17.5%,start line:77% size:72.5%
(Rich)
Well, I think the good gag
we can do here is,
08:52.832 --> 08:54.467 align:left position:22.5%,start line:89% size:67.5%
we can have a close-up
08:54.567 --> 08:57.036 align:left position:15%,start line:83% size:75%
of one of the groups of guys
pickin' their man.
08:57.136 --> 08:59.672 align:left position:25%,start line:83% size:65%
And I think I'm gonna
make our man in front
08:59.772 --> 09:02.842 align:left position:12.5%,start line:83% size:77.5%
this little guy that's sort of
reluctant to go out there.
09:02.942 --> 09:04.310 align:left position:25%,start line:89% size:65%
In the back, we're--
09:04.410 --> 09:06.045 align:left position:30%,start line:83% size:60%
they've already
picked their man.
09:06.145 --> 09:08.347 align:left position:27.5%,start line:83% size:62.5%
He's gonna be
a monster of a guy.
09:08.447 --> 09:10.216 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70%
(Griffith)
And them two men come out
09:10.316 --> 09:12.885 align:left position:17.5%,start line:83% size:72.5%
in the middle of that
cow pasture and shook hands
09:12.985 --> 09:15.821 align:left position:17.5%,start line:83% size:72.5%
like they hadn't seen
one another in a long time.
09:15.922 --> 09:18.758 align:left position:15%,start line:83% size:75%
And then, a convict come over
to where they was a-standin',
09:18.858 --> 09:20.526 align:left position:17.5%,start line:89% size:72.5%
and he took out a quarter,
09:20.626 --> 09:23.596 align:left position:22.5%,start line:83% size:67.5%
and they commenced
to odd-man right there!
09:23.696 --> 09:25.364 align:left position:30%,start line:83% size:60%
Both bunches-full
of them men
09:25.464 --> 09:28.301 align:left position:15%,start line:83% size:75%
wanted this funny-lookin'
little pumpkin to play with.
09:28.401 --> 09:30.002 align:left position:55%,start line:89% size:35%
Hah, hah, hah!
09:30.102 --> 09:33.072 align:left position:12.5%,start line:77% size:77.5%
(Griffith)
They did, and I know, friends,
that they couldn't a-eat it
09:33.172 --> 09:34.941 align:left position:22.5%,start line:83% size:67.5%
because they kicked it
the whole evenin'
09:35.041 --> 09:36.576 align:left position:25%,start line:89% size:65%
and it never busted.
09:36.676 --> 09:38.010 align:left position:27.5%,start line:89% size:62.5%
[audience laughing]
09:38.110 --> 09:40.813 align:left position:17.5%,start line:83% size:72.5%
And one bunch got it,
and it made the other bunch
09:40.913 --> 09:42.915 align:left position:15%,start line:89% size:75%
just as mad as they could be,
09:43.015 --> 09:46.352 align:left position:17.5%,start line:83% size:72.5%
and friends, I seen that
evenin' the awfulest fight
09:46.452 --> 09:48.654 align:left position:25%,start line:83% size:65%
that I have ever seen
in my life!
09:48.754 --> 09:50.256 align:left position:42.5%,start line:89% size:47.5%
I did!
09:50.356 --> 09:52.124 align:left position:25%,start line:89% size:65%
This is the best part now.
09:52.224 --> 09:54.927 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70%
This is where I get
to really have fun and draw.
09:55.027 --> 09:56.996 align:left position:40%,start line:83% size:50%
I'm just gonna draw
this massive pile on
09:57.096 --> 09:58.598 align:left position:35%,start line:89% size:55%
with all sorts of guys
09:58.698 --> 10:00.333 align:left position:50%,start line:83% size:40%
getting slammed
and bit and cut.
10:00.433 --> 10:02.401 align:left position:22.5%,start line:83% size:67.5%
You don't have to draw
the full figure.
10:02.501 --> 10:04.804 align:left position:22.5%,start line:83% size:67.5%
You can have a face
poppin' out of nowhere
10:04.904 --> 10:06.672 align:left position:15%,start line:89% size:75%
and work into this giant pile
10:06.772 --> 10:10.409 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70%
of action
and stuff flyin' around.
10:10.509 --> 10:12.278 align:left position:15%,start line:83% size:75%
(Griffith)
They would run at one another
10:12.378 --> 10:14.580 align:left position:17.5%,start line:83% size:72.5%
and kick one another
and throw one another down
10:14.680 --> 10:16.182 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70%
and stomp on one another
10:16.282 --> 10:18.084 align:left position:25%,start line:83% size:65%
andgrindtheir feet
in one another
10:18.184 --> 10:19.819 align:left position:17.5%,start line:89% size:72.5%
and I don't know what all,
10:19.919 --> 10:22.755 align:left position:15%,start line:83% size:75%
and just as fast
as one of 'em would get hurt,
10:22.855 --> 10:25.424 align:left position:22.5%,start line:83% size:67.5%
they'd tote him off
and run another one on!
10:25.524 --> 10:27.460 align:left position:27.5%,start line:89% size:62.5%
[spirited laughter]
10:28.427 --> 10:33.399 align:left position:22.5%,start line:83% size:67.5%
Well...they done that
as long as I set there,
10:33.499 --> 10:34.767 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60%
but pretty soon,
10:34.867 --> 10:36.969 align:left position:22.5%,start line:83% size:67.5%
this boy that had said
"Ticket, please,"
10:37.069 --> 10:39.138 align:left position:30%,start line:83% size:60%
he come up to me,
and he says,
10:39.238 --> 10:40.973 align:left position:17.5%,start line:83% size:72.5%
"Friend,
you're gonna have to leave
10:41.073 --> 10:43.442 align:left position:12.5%,start line:83% size:77.5%
because it is
that you don't have a ticket."
10:43.542 --> 10:47.246 align:left position:12.5%,start line:83% size:77.5%
And I says, "Well, all right,"
and I got up and left.
10:47.346 --> 10:49.015 align:left position:15%,start line:89% size:75%
[mellow acoustic guitar tune]
10:49.115 --> 10:52.251 align:left position:17.5%,start line:83% size:72.5%
And I don't know, friends,
to this day what it was
10:52.351 --> 10:54.253 align:left position:25%,start line:83% size:65%
that they was a-doin'
down thair,
10:54.353 --> 10:56.489 align:left position:15%,start line:89% size:75%
but I have studied about it,
10:56.589 --> 10:59.825 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70%
and I think that it's
somekindlyof a contest
10:59.925 --> 11:02.528 align:left position:17.5%,start line:83% size:72.5%
where they see
which bunchful of them men
11:02.628 --> 11:04.330 align:left position:25%,start line:89% size:65%
can take that pumpkin
11:04.430 --> 11:07.333 align:left position:25%,start line:83% size:65%
and run from one end
of that cow pasture
11:07.433 --> 11:10.503 align:left position:15%,start line:83% size:75%
to theothernwithout either
gettin' knocked down
11:10.603 --> 11:12.805 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70%
or steppin' in somethin'.
11:12.905 --> 11:14.874 align:left position:22.5%,start line:89% size:67.5%
[laughter and applause]
11:14.974 --> 11:18.544 align:left position:87.5%,start line:5% size:2.5%
♪
11:20.446 --> 11:22.682 align:left position:22.5%,start line:83% size:67.5%
[low horn melody leads
dramatic orchestration]
11:22.782 --> 11:26.585 align:left position:87.5%,start line:5% size:2.5%
♪
11:26.686 --> 11:29.155 align:left position:22.5%,start line:77% size:67.5%
(man)
It was very, very foggy
when we went in,
11:29.255 --> 11:31.457 align:left position:15%,start line:83% size:75%
and we didn't know
exactly where we were going.
11:31.557 --> 11:33.859 align:left position:17.5%,start line:83% size:72.5%
They didn't tell us exactly
where they sent you--
11:33.959 --> 11:35.361 align:left position:25%,start line:89% size:65%
just a beach landing,
11:35.461 --> 11:38.164 align:left position:25%,start line:83% size:65%
and when we went in,
we hit the beach
11:38.264 --> 11:40.900 align:left position:22.5%,start line:83% size:67.5%
and went to shore
as quickly as possible
11:41.000 --> 11:44.236 align:left position:15%,start line:83% size:75%
and kinda dodged those things
goin' overhead all the time.
11:44.336 --> 11:46.405 align:left position:27.5%,start line:83% size:62.5%
They were throwin'
shells a lot.
11:46.505 --> 11:48.474 align:left position:25%,start line:5% size:65%
They had big guns up there
11:48.574 --> 11:51.644 align:left position:40%,start line:5% size:50%
in the bunkers up
on top of the hills.
11:51.744 --> 11:53.646 align:left position:45%,start line:5% size:45%
They were throwin'
big shells at us,
11:53.746 --> 11:56.082 align:left position:25%,start line:5% size:65%
and you don't dodge those.
11:56.182 --> 11:58.217 align:left position:87.5%,start line:5% size:2.5%
♪
11:58.317 --> 12:01.387 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70%
(narrator)
As World War II
fades deeper into memory
12:01.487 --> 12:03.889 align:left position:30%,start line:83% size:60%
and its veterans
slowly pass away,
12:03.989 --> 12:05.925 align:left position:15%,start line:89% size:75%
it's all too easy to forget--
12:06.025 --> 12:07.927 align:left position:27.5%,start line:83% size:62.5%
perhaps even
take for granted--
12:08.027 --> 12:11.230 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70%
the sacrifice made
by so many on our behalf.
12:11.330 --> 12:13.232 align:left position:87.5%,start line:5% size:2.5%
♪
12:13.332 --> 12:16.001 align:left position:22.5%,start line:77% size:67.5%
(Dewitt)
And they would
make us stand someplace
12:16.102 --> 12:19.105 align:left position:17.5%,start line:83% size:72.5%
where we had
a good chance of firepower,
12:19.205 --> 12:22.541 align:left position:15%,start line:83% size:75%
and we'd make a stand,
and our tanks would come up--
12:22.641 --> 12:25.644 align:left position:17.5%,start line:83% size:72.5%
the M3 tanks would come up
and battle their tanks.
12:25.745 --> 12:27.747 align:left position:27.5%,start line:83% size:62.5%
They'd have
a tank fight, and--
12:27.847 --> 12:30.116 align:left position:25%,start line:83% size:65%
and we'd have infan--
infantry fight.
12:30.216 --> 12:33.018 align:left position:17.5%,start line:89% size:72.5%
And, uh, then we'd move on.
12:33.119 --> 12:35.821 align:left position:15%,start line:77% size:75%
(narrator)
As the war
ground toward its conclusion,
12:35.921 --> 12:38.023 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70%
the earth still trembled
with uncertainty.
12:38.124 --> 12:40.426 align:left position:27.5%,start line:83% size:62.5%
Yet men like Dewitt
soldiered on,
12:40.526 --> 12:43.796 align:left position:15%,start line:83% size:75%
carrying the world's freedom
on their backs.
12:43.896 --> 12:45.965 align:left position:27.5%,start line:83% size:62.5%
But there were
light moments too.
12:46.065 --> 12:48.801 align:left position:25%,start line:83% size:65%
The USO was
a home away from home
12:48.901 --> 12:52.371 align:left position:12.5%,start line:83% size:77.5%
for our servicemen and -women
and a source of entertainment,
12:52.471 --> 12:54.940 align:left position:22.5%,start line:83% size:67.5%
welcome relief
from the horror of war.
12:55.040 --> 12:57.643 align:left position:22.5%,start line:83% size:67.5%
And no one sang
as convincingly of home
12:57.743 --> 12:59.779 align:left position:22.5%,start line:5% size:67.5%
as the Andrews Sisters.
12:59.879 --> 13:02.481 align:left position:17.5%,start line:5% size:72.5%
[big band horns introduce
"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy"]
13:02.581 --> 13:04.583 align:left position:87.5%,start line:5% size:2.5%
♪
13:04.683 --> 13:07.920 align:left position:15%,start line:77% size:75%
[harmonizing]
♪ He was a famous trumpet man
from out Chicago way ♪
13:08.020 --> 13:10.990 align:left position:15%,start line:83% size:75%
♪ He had a boogie style
that no one else could play ♪
13:11.090 --> 13:13.359 align:left position:25%,start line:83% size:65%
♪ He was the top man
at his craft ♪
13:13.459 --> 13:15.094 align:left position:25%,start line:83% size:65%
♪ But then
his number came up ♪
13:15.194 --> 13:17.096 align:left position:30%,start line:83% size:60%
♪ And he was gone
with the draft ♪
13:17.196 --> 13:19.465 align:left position:22.5%,start line:83% size:67.5%
♪ He's in the Army now,
a-blowin' reveille ♪
13:19.565 --> 13:22.401 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70%
♪ He's the boogie-woogie
bugle boy of Company B ♪
13:22.501 --> 13:24.336 align:left position:30%,start line:83% size:60%
♪ Mr. What-ya-call-em,
whatcha doin' tonight? ♪
13:24.436 --> 13:26.138 align:left position:45%,start line:83% size:45%
♪ Hope you're
in the mood ♪
13:26.238 --> 13:27.940 align:left position:37.5%,start line:83% size:52.5%
♪ Because I'm feelin'
just right ♪
13:28.040 --> 13:30.776 align:left position:35%,start line:83% size:55%
♪ How's about a corner
with a table for two ♪
13:30.876 --> 13:32.411 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70%
♪ Where the music's mellow ♪
13:32.511 --> 13:35.214 align:left position:30%,start line:77% size:60%
(narrator)
Meet Erinn Diaz
and Serah Haley,
13:35.314 --> 13:37.216 align:left position:25%,start line:83% size:65%
headlined
as Letters from Home,
13:37.316 --> 13:40.853 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70%
or, if you'd rather,
America's Bombshell Duo.
13:40.953 --> 13:42.721 align:left position:35%,start line:83% size:55%
Our mission
is to tour the country
13:42.822 --> 13:44.156 align:left position:32.5%,start line:89% size:57.5%
and honor our veterans,
13:44.256 --> 13:45.891 align:left position:32.5%,start line:83% size:57.5%
active military heroes,
and their families
13:45.991 --> 13:48.961 align:left position:15%,start line:83% size:75%
by paying tribute to the music
and the spirit of the 1940s.
13:49.061 --> 13:50.930 align:left position:32.5%,start line:77% size:57.5%
(narrator)
Erinn and Serah
were performers
13:51.030 --> 13:52.698 align:left position:22.5%,start line:89% size:67.5%
practically from birth.
13:52.798 --> 13:56.769 align:left position:17.5%,start line:83% size:72.5%
Erinn was born on the road,
in a car in a snowstorm,
13:56.869 --> 13:59.505 align:left position:25%,start line:83% size:65%
no doubt with tunes
playing on the radio.
13:59.605 --> 14:01.173 align:left position:25%,start line:89% size:65%
Serah and her family
14:01.273 --> 14:03.642 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70%
sang harmony
on their vacation trips.
14:03.742 --> 14:06.645 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
I started doing tap dancing
when I was three years old,
14:06.745 --> 14:08.714 align:left position:30%,start line:83% size:60%
and I just tapped
my entire life.
14:08.814 --> 14:10.783 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70%
I sang;
I did a lot of musicals,
14:10.883 --> 14:12.852 align:left position:17.5%,start line:89% size:72.5%
and I just had a lot of fun
14:12.952 --> 14:15.020 align:left position:12.5%,start line:83% size:77.5%
being on stage and performing,
but especially tap-dancing.
14:15.120 --> 14:16.689 align:left position:27.5%,start line:83% size:62.5%
It's something
that's always been
14:16.789 --> 14:18.457 align:left position:17.5%,start line:89% size:72.5%
near and dear to my heart.
14:18.557 --> 14:20.559 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
Through school,
I always sang at school.
14:20.659 --> 14:22.661 align:left position:17.5%,start line:83% size:72.5%
I always
was in choruses and choirs
14:22.761 --> 14:24.730 align:left position:15%,start line:83% size:75%
and, you know,
did different kind of honors
14:24.830 --> 14:26.565 align:left position:25%,start line:83% size:65%
and national choruses
like that.
14:26.665 --> 14:28.601 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
♪ Sing, sing, sing, sing ♪
14:28.701 --> 14:30.469 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
♪ Everybody start to sing ♪
14:30.569 --> 14:32.004 align:left position:30%,start line:83% size:60%
(narrator)
These young women
14:32.104 --> 14:34.406 align:left position:17.5%,start line:83% size:72.5%
have no direct recollection
of the 1940s,
14:34.506 --> 14:36.675 align:left position:27.5%,start line:83% size:62.5%
yet they have come
to inhabit it
14:36.775 --> 14:40.379 align:left position:27.5%,start line:83% size:62.5%
as if somehow
it was meant to be.
14:40.479 --> 14:42.381 align:left position:25%,start line:83% size:65%
The idea
for Letters from Home
14:42.481 --> 14:44.717 align:left position:22.5%,start line:83% size:67.5%
came from Erinn's dad,
Pat Dearth,
14:44.817 --> 14:46.418 align:left position:27.5%,start line:89% size:62.5%
a Coast Guard vet.
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(Erinn)
I had always put together
14:48.254 --> 14:49.889 align:left position:30%,start line:83% size:60%
a lotta different
kinds of shows,
14:49.989 --> 14:52.892 align:left position:32.5%,start line:83% size:57.5%
and I wanted to think
of a new idea for shows
14:52.992 --> 14:54.894 align:left position:37.5%,start line:83% size:52.5%
that we could take
into retirement homes
14:54.994 --> 14:56.896 align:left position:37.5%,start line:83% size:52.5%
and communities
and things like that,
14:56.996 --> 15:00.399 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70%
and my father said,
"You have to do 1940s music.
15:00.499 --> 15:02.334 align:left position:42.5%,start line:83% size:47.5%
"You've gotta do
that kind of music.
15:02.434 --> 15:03.702 align:left position:45%,start line:89% size:45%
"It's my favorite.
15:03.802 --> 15:05.571 align:left position:35%,start line:83% size:55%
"Listen to this song,
'Pistol Packin' Mama,'
15:05.671 --> 15:07.439 align:left position:35%,start line:83% size:55%
and this song,
'Swinging on a Star,'"
15:07.539 --> 15:10.009 align:left position:15%,start line:83% size:75%
and he just starts pulling out
all these great songs.
15:10.109 --> 15:11.877 align:left position:37.5%,start line:83% size:52.5%
I thought,
this is a great idea,
15:11.977 --> 15:14.446 align:left position:27.5%,start line:83% size:62.5%
and Monday rolled around,
and I was hired to do
15:14.546 --> 15:16.215 align:left position:52.5%,start line:83% size:37.5%
an after-school
theater program
15:16.315 --> 15:18.450 align:left position:17.5%,start line:83% size:72.5%
at Forsyth Country Day School
in Winston-Salem.
15:18.550 --> 15:20.753 align:left position:25%,start line:83% size:65%
And I was gonna be
in Miss Haley's classroom.
15:20.853 --> 15:22.621 align:left position:45%,start line:83% size:45%
I didn't know
who Miss Haley was
15:22.721 --> 15:24.924 align:left position:27.5%,start line:83% size:62.5%
because we had known
each other in high school
15:25.024 --> 15:27.226 align:left position:35%,start line:83% size:55%
but we had lost touch;
we both got married.
15:27.326 --> 15:29.161 align:left position:37.5%,start line:83% size:52.5%
We both had
different last names,
15:29.261 --> 15:31.030 align:left position:45%,start line:83% size:45%
and I walked
into her classroom
15:31.130 --> 15:32.765 align:left position:50%,start line:83% size:40%
on Tuesday and--
Whoa!--surprise!
15:32.865 --> 15:34.633 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
I was sitting,
working at my desk,
15:34.733 --> 15:36.502 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
and I looked up,
and there's Erinn,
15:36.602 --> 15:38.570 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
and I said,
"Erinn? Is that you?"
15:38.671 --> 15:40.940 align:left position:40%,start line:83% size:50%
I was like, "What
are you doing here?"
15:41.040 --> 15:43.375 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
And so she came over,
and she said,
15:43.475 --> 15:44.810 align:left position:22.5%,start line:83% size:67.5%
"Are you still
performing?"
15:44.910 --> 15:46.545 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70%
and I said, "I guess so.
15:46.645 --> 15:48.147 align:left position:15%,start line:89% size:75%
What are you thinkin' about?"
15:48.247 --> 15:50.449 align:left position:22.5%,start line:83% size:67.5%
She started tellin' me
a little bit about it.
15:50.549 --> 15:52.618 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70%
(Erinn)
I said, "We're gonna sing
and tap-dance,"
15:52.718 --> 15:54.687 align:left position:27.5%,start line:83% size:62.5%
and she says, "No,
I don't tap-dance."
15:54.787 --> 15:56.555 align:left position:27.5%,start line:83% size:62.5%
I was like,
"I can teach you,"
15:56.655 --> 15:58.290 align:left position:52.5%,start line:83% size:37.5%
and she said,
"No, you can't.
15:58.390 --> 16:00.492 align:left position:37.5%,start line:83% size:52.5%
You don't understand;
I don't dance."
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(narrator)
Well, that might
have been true at one time,
16:04.396 --> 16:07.633 align:left position:15%,start line:83% size:75%
but in true trouper fashion,
the show must go on...
16:07.733 --> 16:09.969 align:left position:27.5%,start line:83% size:62.5%
in VA hospitals,
theaters, schools,
16:10.069 --> 16:12.237 align:left position:12.5%,start line:89% size:77.5%
VFW and American Legion halls,
16:12.338 --> 16:14.673 align:left position:27.5%,start line:83% size:62.5%
on cruise ships
and military bases,
16:14.773 --> 16:17.710 align:left position:22.5%,start line:83% size:67.5%
and at patriotic events
across North Carolina
16:17.810 --> 16:20.813 align:left position:17.5%,start line:89% size:72.5%
and 19 other states so far.
16:20.913 --> 16:23.482 align:left position:17.5%,start line:83% size:72.5%
Wherever they go,
like here in their hometown
16:23.582 --> 16:25.484 align:left position:12.5%,start line:89% size:77.5%
at the Winston-Salem Air Show,
16:25.584 --> 16:27.286 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70%
veterans
from all service branches
16:27.386 --> 16:30.622 align:left position:12.5%,start line:83% size:77.5%
and all wars
flock to hear Serah and Erinn.
16:30.723 --> 16:33.192 align:left position:22.5%,start line:77% size:67.5%
(Serah)
And I have never
gotten to do this show
16:33.292 --> 16:34.927 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
for my grandfather, um.
16:35.027 --> 16:36.462 align:left position:22.5%,start line:83% size:67.5%
[voice breaking]
He actually...
16:36.562 --> 16:37.997 align:left position:17.5%,start line:83% size:72.5%
passed away
one month
16:38.097 --> 16:40.199 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
before we started
performing the show,
16:40.299 --> 16:42.534 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
so I never even
got to tell him
16:42.634 --> 16:44.269 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
that we were doing it,
16:44.370 --> 16:49.074 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
so it's really neat to do it
and honor a memory of him
16:49.174 --> 16:51.477 align:left position:15%,start line:83% size:75%
and reaching back
to World War II
16:51.577 --> 16:54.880 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
and a time that I know
he so would have appreciated,
16:54.980 --> 16:56.849 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
and so it's really special.
16:56.949 --> 16:59.184 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
[tapping and singing
over jazz recording]
16:59.284 --> 17:02.588 align:left position:87.5%,start line:5% size:2.5%
♪
17:02.688 --> 17:05.257 align:left position:25%,start line:77% size:65%
(narrator)
They may make it all
look easy,
17:05.357 --> 17:08.927 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70%
but making it look easy
takes a lot of hard work,
17:09.028 --> 17:11.263 align:left position:27.5%,start line:83% size:62.5%
the song part
and the dance part.
17:11.363 --> 17:14.400 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70%
That's why they rehearse
over 20 hours a week.
17:14.500 --> 17:18.170 align:left position:10%,start line:5% size:80%
♪
17:18.270 --> 17:20.172 align:left position:30%,start line:83% size:60%
But rehearsals
don't stop there.
17:20.272 --> 17:24.043 align:left position:12.5%,start line:83% size:77.5%
With over 100 shows a year
and a constantly changing act,
17:24.143 --> 17:25.878 align:left position:25%,start line:83% size:65%
you can find
the girls practicing
17:25.978 --> 17:27.880 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70%
most anywhere
they can snatch a moment:
17:27.980 --> 17:30.582 align:left position:15%,start line:83% size:75%
in the driveway,
even the backseat of the car.
17:30.682 --> 17:32.384 align:left position:25%,start line:89% size:65%
[duo singing faintly]
17:32.484 --> 17:34.319 align:left position:27.5%,start line:77% size:62.5%
(Serah)
And sometimes,
when we're on tour
17:34.420 --> 17:36.188 align:left position:25%,start line:83% size:65%
and we can't
get into the studio,
17:36.288 --> 17:37.890 align:left position:15%,start line:89% size:75%
we miss that rehearsal time.
17:37.990 --> 17:40.759 align:left position:15%,start line:83% size:75%
We can't stop,
so along the way in the car,
17:40.859 --> 17:42.127 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60%
we'll be singing,
17:42.227 --> 17:45.531 align:left position:17.5%,start line:83% size:72.5%
or we'll be moving our feet
and practicing our steps
17:45.631 --> 17:47.533 align:left position:17.5%,start line:89% size:72.5%
in our seats, and always--
17:47.633 --> 17:51.470 align:left position:15%,start line:83% size:75%
we always want to...make
the show more exciting
17:51.570 --> 17:53.372 align:left position:17.5%,start line:83% size:72.5%
the next time
somebody sees us.
17:53.472 --> 17:55.674 align:left position:25%,start line:77% size:65%
(Erinn)
We travel in a truck
and a trailer
17:55.774 --> 17:57.743 align:left position:22.5%,start line:83% size:67.5%
that has all our sound
equipment and costumes
17:57.843 --> 17:59.478 align:left position:25%,start line:83% size:65%
pretty much
all over the country.
17:59.578 --> 18:01.447 align:left position:17.5%,start line:83% size:72.5%
(Serah)
And we couldn't be happier.
18:01.547 --> 18:04.049 align:left position:22.5%,start line:77% size:67.5%
(narrator)
Behind most good acts,
you probably know,
18:04.149 --> 18:05.951 align:left position:22.5%,start line:83% size:67.5%
there's usually someone
who takes on
18:06.051 --> 18:08.120 align:left position:27.5%,start line:83% size:62.5%
all the unsung
but oh-so-critical
18:08.220 --> 18:09.788 align:left position:25%,start line:89% size:65%
organizational stuff.
18:09.888 --> 18:12.324 align:left position:12.5%,start line:83% size:77.5%
In this case,
that's Erinn's husband Nelson,
18:12.424 --> 18:13.892 align:left position:25%,start line:89% size:65%
an Air Force veteran
18:13.992 --> 18:17.196 align:left position:15%,start line:83% size:75%
who manages Letters From Home
plus loads the car,
18:17.296 --> 18:19.965 align:left position:25%,start line:83% size:65%
drives them to gigs,
organizes air travel,
18:20.065 --> 18:21.700 align:left position:27.5%,start line:89% size:62.5%
sees to their bags,
18:21.800 --> 18:24.770 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70%
and on and on--heh, heh.
18:24.870 --> 18:27.406 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80%
Actually, I think
one of Nelson's
biggest strengths
18:27.506 --> 18:30.109 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
is the ability to
completely tune us out.
18:30.209 --> 18:31.777 align:left position:22.5%,start line:89% size:67.5%
[both laughing]
18:31.877 --> 18:33.846 align:left position:35%,start line:83% size:55%
There's so many things
you could've said!
18:33.946 --> 18:35.280 align:left position:57.5%,start line:83% size:32.5%
I didn't--
hah, hah!
18:35.380 --> 18:37.449 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
He will be driving
along for hours,
18:37.549 --> 18:39.818 align:left position:17.5%,start line:83% size:72.5%
and we will be
"dip, dip...dip"nonstop,
18:39.918 --> 18:41.386 align:left position:22.5%,start line:89% size:67.5%
and we'll say, "Nelson,
18:41.487 --> 18:43.122 align:left position:27.5%,start line:83% size:62.5%
what do you
think about that?"
18:43.222 --> 18:44.857 align:left position:15%,start line:83% size:75%
(Erinn)
He'll go, "About what?"--hah!
18:44.957 --> 18:46.592 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80%
(Serah)
18:44.957 --> 18:46.592 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
So
18:44.957 --> 18:46.592 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80%
metimes he doesn't
ev
en respond!
18:46.692 --> 18:49.394 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80%
We have to actually
tap him on the
shoulder and say,
18:49.495 --> 18:51.063 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
"Hey, you're
welcome to come
18:51.163 --> 18:53.398 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80%
into this
conversation now--"
hah, hah, hah!
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["Ballad of the Green Beret"]
♪ Trained to live ♪
18:56.201 --> 18:58.837 align:left position:15%,start line:89% size:75%
♪ Off nature's land ♪
18:58.937 --> 19:00.639 align:left position:25%,start line:83% size:65%
(narrator)
As you might expect,
19:00.739 --> 19:03.242 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70%
every soldier has a story
and a song,
19:03.342 --> 19:06.645 align:left position:17.5%,start line:83% size:72.5%
a tune they likely carried
in their heads and hearts
19:06.745 --> 19:09.548 align:left position:22.5%,start line:83% size:67.5%
after leaving our state
for the war front.
19:09.648 --> 19:11.383 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
We were at a VA hospital
19:11.483 --> 19:12.851 align:left position:22.5%,start line:89% size:67.5%
in Asheville,
19:12.951 --> 19:14.953 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
and as we were singing, uh--
19:15.053 --> 19:16.455 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
we finished our show.
19:16.555 --> 19:18.524 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
I walked past someone,
and he stood up
19:18.624 --> 19:20.893 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
out of his wheelchair
to give me a hug.
19:20.993 --> 19:22.895 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
All the nurses
came flooding around,
19:22.995 --> 19:26.231 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
and they ran up to him,
and they were grabbing him,
19:26.331 --> 19:28.433 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
and it looked
like something was wrong.
19:28.534 --> 19:32.104 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
And Nelson spoke to the lady
not too long after that,
19:32.204 --> 19:34.206 align:left position:12.5%,start line:83% size:77.5%
and he's like,
"Is everything OK?"
19:34.306 --> 19:36.542 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
And she said,
"Yeah, everything's OK.
19:36.642 --> 19:39.044 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
"He has not stood up
by himself
19:39.144 --> 19:40.812 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
in over three years."
19:40.913 --> 19:43.882 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
He was so moved by the music
that he just stood up,
19:43.982 --> 19:46.552 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
and then we went back
to that same VA hospital
19:46.652 --> 19:48.787 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
to perform our Christmas show
six months later,
19:48.887 --> 19:51.957 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
and he was walking
down the hall with his walker.
19:52.057 --> 19:54.426 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
The music
literally changed him.
19:54.526 --> 19:56.528 align:left position:25%,start line:77% size:65%
(narrator)
It's a privilege
for Letters From Home
19:56.628 --> 19:58.864 align:left position:25%,start line:83% size:65%
to treat these vets
to musical memories,
19:58.964 --> 20:01.266 align:left position:17.5%,start line:83% size:72.5%
but there are
some continuing challenges,
20:01.366 --> 20:04.102 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70%
one of which is coming up
with the funds necessary
20:04.203 --> 20:05.938 align:left position:22.5%,start line:89% size:67.5%
to fuel their journey.
20:06.038 --> 20:07.673 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
There's more
that goes into
20:07.773 --> 20:09.408 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
simply getting
to a place
20:09.508 --> 20:11.743 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
than a lot of people
would think.
20:11.843 --> 20:14.479 align:left position:22.5%,start line:83% size:67.5%
So last year,
we set up what we're--
20:14.580 --> 20:16.782 align:left position:25%,start line:83% size:65%
we call the Veterans
Performance Fund,
20:16.882 --> 20:20.319 align:left position:12.5%,start line:83% size:77.5%
and it's an opportunity
for somebody to either donate,
20:20.419 --> 20:23.188 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70%
or all of our merchandise
that we have,
20:23.288 --> 20:26.425 align:left position:12.5%,start line:83% size:77.5%
our CDs, our posters,
pictures, patches, calendars--
20:26.525 --> 20:29.494 align:left position:22.5%,start line:83% size:67.5%
anything we have--
every bit of that money
20:29.595 --> 20:32.431 align:left position:17.5%,start line:83% size:72.5%
goes towards that Veterans
Performance Fund.
20:32.531 --> 20:36.168 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70%
And that fund helps us
to go to places like that
20:36.268 --> 20:38.170 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
or to VA hospitals,
for example.
20:38.270 --> 20:41.206 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
It's not a project,
but it's a place that--
20:41.306 --> 20:42.975 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
you know,
we've all heard
20:43.075 --> 20:44.910 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
that there's not
great funding
20:45.010 --> 20:46.378 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
for things
like that,
20:46.478 --> 20:47.746 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
so they obviously
20:47.846 --> 20:49.481 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
won't have extra money
for entertainment
20:49.581 --> 20:52.384 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
or things like that,
so it gives us the ability
20:52.484 --> 20:55.320 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80%
to go to those
places and reach out
to those people.
20:55.420 --> 20:56.755 align:left position:42.5%,start line:89% size:47.5%
Who really need it.
20:56.855 --> 20:58.123 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
mm-hm
20:58.724 --> 21:00.525 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70%
(narrator)
People like Dewitt Wells
21:00.626 --> 21:03.195 align:left position:25%,start line:83% size:65%
of the 90th Division,
359th Regiment,
21:03.295 --> 21:06.331 align:left position:25%,start line:83% size:65%
who you can bet
has a song of his own
21:06.431 --> 21:09.167 align:left position:17.5%,start line:89% size:72.5%
and a story to go with it.
21:09.268 --> 21:12.437 align:left position:42.5%,start line:89% size:47.5%
Back in, uh, '45...
21:12.537 --> 21:14.906 align:left position:52.5%,start line:89% size:37.5%
'46, uh...
21:15.007 --> 21:17.342 align:left position:32.5%,start line:83% size:57.5%
we used to go dancing--
USO dances,
21:17.442 --> 21:18.944 align:left position:35%,start line:89% size:55%
and one of the dances,
21:19.044 --> 21:20.946 align:left position:35%,start line:83% size:55%
they, uh, sang
"Sentimental Journey."
21:21.046 --> 21:24.616 align:left position:32.5%,start line:83% size:57.5%
We decided, we'd claim
that song for our song,
21:24.716 --> 21:26.585 align:left position:50%,start line:83% size:40%
and every time
we ever hear it,
21:26.685 --> 21:28.654 align:left position:30%,start line:83% size:60%
we would go on
and waltz to it.
21:28.754 --> 21:30.088 align:left position:22.5%,start line:89% size:67.5%
It's a beautiful song.
21:30.188 --> 21:31.823 align:left position:30%,start line:83% size:60%
They'd play it
on the television
21:31.923 --> 21:34.393 align:left position:12.5%,start line:83% size:77.5%
or the radio,
and we'd go in the living room
21:34.493 --> 21:36.061 align:left position:27.5%,start line:83% size:62.5%
and start dancing,
start waltzing,
21:36.161 --> 21:38.397 align:left position:22.5%,start line:83% size:67.5%
and, uh,
she was a good waltzer.
21:38.497 --> 21:40.399 align:left position:17.5%,start line:89% size:72.5%
I had to keep up with her.
21:40.499 --> 21:43.635 align:left position:15%,start line:89% size:75%
♪ To renew old memories ♪
21:43.735 --> 21:45.237 align:left position:22.5%,start line:89% size:67.5%
♪ I got my bag ♪
21:45.337 --> 21:46.938 align:left position:17.5%,start line:89% size:72.5%
You talk about running water.
21:47.039 --> 21:49.675 align:left position:30%,start line:83% size:60%
I had water
comin' out of both eyes.
21:49.775 --> 21:51.743 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70%
It was just a precious song,
21:51.843 --> 21:54.179 align:left position:32.5%,start line:83% size:57.5%
for them to stand there
in front of me
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and sing it to me,
and I love it.
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♪ Journey home ♪
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(narrator)
So the next time
you get hankerin'
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for some tunes
from the '40s and more,
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keep your ears out
for when Letters From Home
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is appearing in your town.
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You can pretty much bet
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that Serah and Erinn
will know your song too.
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[applause]
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[gentle guitar plucking]
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♪
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(man)
When I write a song, it, uh...
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it is an emotion
or an experience that, uh--
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that's tryin' to come out.
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♪
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The thing
that's important to me
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is to try to write a song
that people can connect with,
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but give 'em something of it
they can go back--
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maybe collect thoughts on
and take 'em back to--
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to a--to another time,
a happier time.
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♪
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I would overhear my wife
tellin' stories
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to our children
about what it was like
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growin' up on the mountain
with her grandmother.
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They lived
in a one-room cabin up there
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with no running water,
no electricity.
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[driving guitar rhythm]
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♪ I was born
down in North Carolina ♪
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♪ Blue Ridge Mountains,
I call home ♪
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♪ Bright, sunny days
make a life worth a-livin' ♪
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♪ Cool,
starry nights ♪
23:17.262 --> 23:19.297 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
♪ Make me
miss my home ♪
23:19.398 --> 23:21.133 align:left position:12.5%,start line:83% size:77.5%
♪ Cool,
starry nights ♪
23:21.233 --> 23:24.169 align:left position:15%,start line:83% size:75%
♪ Make me miss
my home ♪
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[voice-over]
My wife tellin' stories
about up on the mountain
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inspired me to write
a few lyrics down
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based off events
of my wife's childhood.
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♪ Back
in the hills ♪
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♪ Life didn't
come easy ♪
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[harmonizing]
♪ Corn wouldn't grow ♪
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♪ On dry, rocky ground ♪
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♪ Grandma's
old cow ♪
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♪ Goes dry
in the summer ♪
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♪ Coon dogs at night,
how I love that sound ♪
23:50.429 --> 23:53.865 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
♪ Coon dogs at night,
how I love that sound ♪
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[guitar takes melody]
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♪
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♪ Hot summer
days ♪
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♪ Spent swingin'
on grapevines ♪
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[harmonizing]
♪ Cowboys and Indians ♪
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♪ With my cousins and me ♪
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(Larry)
♪ Suppertime, Grandma prayed ♪
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♪ O'er
our table ♪
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♪ We're poor, we're poor
but as happy could be ♪
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♪ We're poor, we're poor
but as happy could be ♪
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♪
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[bell clanging]
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♪
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♪ Sunday mornin' ♪
24:32.971 --> 24:35.073 align:left position:17.5%,start line:89% size:72.5%
♪ We'd all walk together ♪
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[in unison]
♪ To a little mountain church ♪
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♪ Where we'd sing
and we'd pray ♪
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♪"Victory in Jesus" ♪
24:41.613 --> 24:43.648 align:left position:17.5%,start line:89% size:72.5%
♪ Was Grandma's favorite ♪
24:43.748 --> 24:45.517 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
♪ You'd hear her
a-singin' ♪
24:45.617 --> 24:47.919 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
♪ Half a mile
away ♪
24:48.019 --> 24:51.456 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
♪ Hear her a-singin'
half a mile away ♪
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♪
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♪ Grandpa had
brown crocks ♪
25:02.534 --> 25:04.269 align:left position:25%,start line:89% size:65%
♪ Full of homebrew ♪
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[harmonizing]
♪ He didn't care ♪
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♪ That Grandma knew ♪
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(Larry)
♪ One Sunday morning ♪
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♪ Grandpa met
an old preacher ♪
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♪ Now "Victory
in Jesus" ♪
25:14.379 --> 25:16.715 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
♪ Is his
favorite too ♪
25:16.815 --> 25:18.416 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
♪ "Victory
in Jesus" ♪
25:18.517 --> 25:20.418 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
♪ Is his
favorite too ♪
25:20.519 --> 25:30.395 align:left position:87.5%,start line:5% size:2.5%
♪
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♪ Wild roses
bloomin' ♪
25:32.831 --> 25:35.133 align:left position:17.5%,start line:83% size:72.5%
♪ Along
the fence line ♪
25:35.233 --> 25:36.668 align:left position:22.5%,start line:83% size:67.5%
[harmonizing]
♪ Honeysuckle smells ♪
25:36.768 --> 25:39.271 align:left position:22.5%,start line:89% size:67.5%
♪ Like sweet perfume ♪
25:39.371 --> 25:40.939 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
♪ Summer
rains ♪
25:41.039 --> 25:43.174 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
♪ Made me run
for the doorstep ♪
25:43.275 --> 25:45.377 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
♪ We'd lie on
that feather bed ♪
25:45.477 --> 25:47.646 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
♪ In her room ♪
25:47.746 --> 25:51.049 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
♪ Lie on that feather bed
25:47.746 --> 25:51.049 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
in
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her room ♪
25:51.149 --> 26:01.927 align:left position:87.5%,start line:5% size:2.5%
♪
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♪
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♪ Sometimes
at night ♪
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♪ As I sit
by the fireside ♪
26:18.209 --> 26:20.045 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
♪ My mind
wanders back ♪
26:20.145 --> 26:22.180 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
♪ To a time
long ago ♪
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♪ Seems
I can hear ♪
26:24.282 --> 26:26.384 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
♪ Her voice
in the darkness ♪
26:26.484 --> 26:28.286 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
♪ Callin' me,
callin' me ♪
26:28.386 --> 26:30.555 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
♪ To my old
mountain home ♪
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♪ Callin' me,
callin' me ♪
26:32.524 --> 26:35.226 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
♪ To my old
mountain home ♪
26:35.327 --> 26:39.864 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
♪ I was born
down in North Carolina ♪
26:39.965 --> 26:41.967 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
[harmonizing]
♪ Blue Ridge Mountains ♪
26:42.067 --> 26:43.768 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80%
♪ I call
home ♪
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♪
26:47.172 --> 26:49.307 align:left position:22.5%,start line:89% size:67.5%
[playing concluding melody]
26:49.407 --> 26:52.344 align:left position:87.5%,start line:5% size:2.5%
♪
26:54.079 --> 26:56.114 align:left position:27.5%,start line:83% size:62.5%
[guitars lead
loping arrangement]
26:56.214 --> 27:10.662 align:left position:87.5%,start line:5% size:2.5%
♪
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♪
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[glockenspiel supports
upbeat guitar plucking]
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♪
27:34.853 --> 27:38.189 align:left position:25%,start line:83% size:65%
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www.CaptionPerfect.com
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27:41.493 --> 27:44.295 align:left position:22.5%,start line:5% size:67.5%
(announcer)
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gentle piano melody]
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From the time BB&T
opened its doors in 1872
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in the town of Wilson,
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we've supported
the people and communities
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of North Carolina
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from the Outer Banks
to the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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We've been in business
for 136 years,
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making us the oldest bank
in North Carolina.
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We're proud
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