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[resonant droning 
supports guitar plucking]

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♪

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Wow! It's the first week 
of March.

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I can see my breath.

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So the first thing 
I'm gonna do

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in the wagon now 
is make a fire.

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[crackling]

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There's a lot 
of just slack time

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on the wagon, 
where you write.

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You light a lantern, 
get the fire goin'...

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and it just kinda 
makes you think

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about the passage 
of time and--

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and where you're headed, um.

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On this trip, 
we're in Oriental now,

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and on most wagon trips,

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I simply head out,

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which is kind of hard 
to explain to people,

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but I always say,

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it's a little bit 
like the seagull.

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The seagull doesn't file 
a flight plan.

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The seagull just leaves.

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When the barometer 
makes a certain twitch,

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if it goes high, 
maybe they fly out to sea.

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It goes low, 
they come inland,

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and they might 
go land on a field

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that's being plowed 
to look for worms

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or critters to eat.

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I work 
by about the same whims.

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OK, had a look.

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See any?

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Nah.

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I'm not a white-cotton- 
glove kinda guy.

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Come on and visit.

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Her name is Polly; 
give her a slice of bread.

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Yeah, just lay it flat 
like that.

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[voice-over] 
The internal barometer

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inside me has risen, 
and it's just time to go.

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(woman) 
Well, good luck!

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(woman #2) 
Have a safe trip.

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Thanks, 
have a good week!

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[voice-over] 
But it's just like the bird-- 
like the fish.

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Time to hitch up Polly 
to the wagon and go!

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[clopping]

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[gentle guitar 
and piano arrangement]

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♪

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When people see a guy 
walkin' up the road,

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it strikes 
this iconic part of--

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of all our hearts, 
especially in the States

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because that's like a sign 
of Westward expansion,

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the man, the mule, 
and the wagon.

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[electric guitar joins]

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Check it out here; 
we're ramblin'!

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And so the--the reality 
is a little bit different,

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and as I was travelin' 
up the highway...

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Have a good 'un!

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...with cars passin' me at 60 
as I was going at 2,

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every time one passed, 
you'd get this "vooof,"

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and it pushes 
your wagon forward.

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And it made me realize, 
you know,

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in the three 
or four generations,

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we've gone 
from 2-mile-an-hour travel

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to 60-mile-an-hour travel.

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Being able to shed 
that speed bubble...

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it really lets you 
look and see and smell

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and hear things 
that you ordinarily wouldn't.

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You can smell the earth...

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which I don't smell 
when I'm in my pickup truck.

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Just don't get 
that sensory immersion.

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Also don't get there as 
quickly when I'm in the wagon.

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[clopping]

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[resonant guitar melody]

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Many of us tend to be as-- 
as independent as possible.

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We're kinda 
self-centered creatures.

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♪

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To have a mule 
to travel with,

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it really 
drags you out of that.

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Because I need 
to put the mule up

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every night somewhere, 
I meet all kinds of people.

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(man) 
Need that bucket 
for anything?

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I was gonna 
get water.

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I've visited Virgil 
two or three times now.

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Oh, I'm good--I-- 
I'm good, Virgil.

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You can smell, like, 
the sweat and the oils

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and the dander 
after they've worked.

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It gives off

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this just really rich, 
horsey smell.

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And she'll only roll 
on one side at a time.

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It's like clockwork.

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I just love this part 
of the day.

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♪

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Heh, and we'll shake-- 
excellent.

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That's the ritual-- 
heh, heh...heh!

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♪

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As I travel, 
I can pick up little pieces

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of the community 
I'm going through.

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Virgil had given us 
these pieces of wood,

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and it becomes 
part of my wagon,

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part of my body.

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Cooking with this wood, 
and then you heat with it.

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Virgil gave us some water.

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So pretty soon, 
you're becoming a sum total

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of all of the parts 
of the communities

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that you're traveling through.

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My traveling wagon life

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is about other people's lives 
coming into my life.

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[droning supports guitar]

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♪

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It's really neat

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to see that people 
still have this generosity,

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be able to give something 
of themselves

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to help another person along.

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And so that's how 
that transition starts,

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you know, transitioning 
into other people's yards,

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their lives, 
their stories, their thoughts.

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[piano enters]

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(man) 
Got into commercial fishing.

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That's what my father did.

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That's all I wanted to do, 
and that's all I've ever done.

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In the summer, we'd fish 
off the Massachusetts coast,

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and in the fall of the year,

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we'd come back down, 
work in New Jersey,

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and then come down 
to Hampton, Virginia,

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and then on back to Carolina.

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Back when I started doing it,

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you worked on boats; 
you built your own nets.

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(Bernie) 
So tell me just about life

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on those shrimp boats 
'cause it musta been hard.

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(Virgil) 
You had no conveniences, 
no bathroom, shower.

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You'd lay in your bunks, 
and dem bunks

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'bout 36 inches wide 
or what have you,

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and sometime, 
you'd wake up,

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and it'd be right wet 
where you'd sweated in there.

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Well, about like 
you and this--

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and your mule 
and buggy.

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(Bernie) 
Yeah, but you see,

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I think I've got it made, 
though, Virgil.

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The uncooperative mule-- 
come, come!

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Come on, mule!

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[sighing]

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It's kinda fun to-- 
to see as the trip progresses,

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and gradually, 
over time,

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a trip will develop its-- 
its own flavor,

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its own rhythm, 
its own identity.

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You just have 
to step out and go.

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You just have to start,

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and it's impossible 
to predict that magic.

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(Virgil) 
You oughta get 
good mule mileage today.

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You're gonna have 
a "tail wind."

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(Bernie) 
Yeah--hah, hah!

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I'm glad I've not 
got to go with him.

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See you 
next year!

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What a sight.

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Wish him well on his travels.

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[electric guitar leads]

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[whooshing]

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♪

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[whooshing]

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♪

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[wind blowing]

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(Bernie) 
We've got probably a 25-knot--

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a low front 
comin' through on us.

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It's blowing so hard 
from the back

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that the wagon 
is pushing Polly,

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the mule, 
up the highway.

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So it's just 
pretty remarkable conditions

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to see 
in eastern North Carolina.

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Hooh-- 
well, hello!

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Y'all gettin' 
along all right?

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Yeah, we're 
out ramblin'!

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Yeah, I'm tellin' ya, it's 
a-blowin' a gale out here.

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Yes, it is!

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Y'all be careful.

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(Bernie) 
When you see a day like that,

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that's when you're glad 
that you've got,

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you know, 
a little woodstove...

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and a good, 
solid-headed mule.

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[contemplative piano 
and bass score]

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♪

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I go with a mule 
and a wagon.

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I'm forced to go through 
pretty much all conditions.

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Damn dog-- 
there's always one!

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Come on, 
yo 
u damn mutts!

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I mean, I've been through 
downtown Chattanooga

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and was told,

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"No, it's 
a terrible place to go.

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Don't go there 
with a mule."

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No problem at all.

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I don't shy away 
from that.

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I don't shy away 
from other people's fears

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'cause that's someone--

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that's what someone else 
is afraid of.

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Four, five generations ago,

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people traveled through 
extraordinary weathers.

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They didn't have 
good foul-weather gear.

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They just did it.

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I think we've lost 
this kind of rhythmic capacity

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just to grind away, 
one foot after the next.

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You have to become the mule.

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The mule doesn't complain.

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The mule 
doesn't know it's wet.

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The mule doesn't know 
it's cold.

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The mule just walks.

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I guess I get a charge 
out of doing it,

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so I just walk like Polly.

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♪

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That's all fine to say 
how tough you are

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and how game you are, 
but at the end of the day,

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you want a place 
to take a break,

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lay down, 
and just tune out.

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[easy guitar arrangement]

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And most of that night, 
just the wind--

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it just kept blowing.

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It's just blowing itself out.

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[wind blowing]

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[trickling]

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Then it goes away,

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and it's a beautiful day-- 
a blue sky.

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[creaking]

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[clattering]

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[droning strings lead 
slow guitar arrangement]

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So this is winter; 
the field's dormant,

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the potato rows 
resting between harvest.

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The soil is black 
and loose and crusted

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with veneer 
of dormant stalks and weeds.

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This is agricultural limbo.

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♪

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(man) 
My father-in-law 
lives up the road

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and said, 
"What in the world's goin' on

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"down there 
at your old grain bins?

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There's a man, a mule, 
and a covered wagon."

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You don't get 
that call a lot,

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so I hopped in the truck-- 
come check it out.

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Look at the little woodstove; 
you've got it made.

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Hey, climb in 
and look at it!

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I've seen one 
of them woodstoves

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in a van 
just like that.

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I built this one out 
of, like, a box beam.

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I've traveled 
through this 
country a lot,

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but I've never been 
inside a granary.

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(man) 
Lemme hold the door 
so it won't knock.

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So it's pretty simple.

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(Bernie) 
What year do you think 
this one's put up?

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(man) 
Probably the '60s.

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The door keeps swingin' open,

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and I came up 
to shut the door,

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and it sorta swung open, 
and a bobcat ran outta there--

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a big bobcat!

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I was like, "whoa!"

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(Bernie) 
Hah, hah...hah!

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[creaking and clopping]

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[gentle guitar 
and piano arrangement]

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♪

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♪

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Two or three years ago, 
I was comin' up the road

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with Polly into Aurora, 
and I see this guy.

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He was walking 
so energetically,

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it looked like 
he was running.

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He said, 
"Come on, got a place to stay?

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"No? 
Come on.

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Stay with us."

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♪

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[guitar strumming]

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And it turns out 
he's just an amazing musician.

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♪

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heh, heh, heh

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So play me another.

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Let's see, 
last time we visited,

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you played 
"The Fishin' Song."

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Oh, 
"The Fishin' Song!"

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Oh, yeah!

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♪ Pullin' the net ♪

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♪ All my days ♪

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♪ It seems 
to suit my life ♪

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♪ Draggin' along the bottom ♪

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♪ With not much catch 
in sight ♪

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♪ Well, I don't know 
much else to do ♪

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♪ Pullin' 
and a-joggin' ♪

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♪ All I ask for 
is just enough ♪

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♪ To keep me off 
the bottom ♪

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[yawning]

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♪ Woo-hoo ♪

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[electric guitar 
leads droning]

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♪

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[whirring]

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To give you a sense 
of how far we've traveled

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in the last three days, 
we left Oriental,

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came to Bayboro.

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Then we went to Hobucken 
and ended up in Aurora,

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and that's 
right at 40 miles.

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One of the things 
that fascinates me

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about traveling is...

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Step in there 
with him, yeah.

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...kinda this invisible magnet 
that just sucks people in.

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So he went 
from where--

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where'd you come from 
with the mule?

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And these are people 
who took time

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out of their speeding days...

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Yeah, I'm bringin' y'all 
precipitation, man!

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...that actually 
stopped their vehicles

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and walked over 
and visited...

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Drivin' him down 
the highway.

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Oh, yeah.

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[voice-over] 
...and added something 
to our day.

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Don't let the 
bobcat getcha-- 
hah, hah...hah!

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(Bernie) 
I think, 
when I show up in a wagon,

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people are like, 
"He's doin' it!

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He's running away 
like we dream of doin'."

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I think 
a lot of 'em think,

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"I'd be happy 
if I could do that."

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Having said that, 
I have very few volunteers

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that come along-- 
hah, hah...hah!

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[acoustic guitar 
leads droning]

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So our actions-- 
it's incredible.

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We've all seen it.

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They--they impact 
other people.

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There's a chain reaction 
to that.

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It's just so hard 
to ever predict

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how you'll affect somebody.

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(woman) 
Polly the penguin 
loves to play.

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She slips 
and slides every day.

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(Bernie) 
If you wanna see 
a kid freak out,

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show, you know, 
him or her a mule.

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(female teacher) 
That's where Polly 
likes to go.

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[teacher gasping]

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I see somethin' 
out the window.

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(kids) 
Polly! Polly!

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(Bernie) 
If they'd been a boat, 
they'da capsized it

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'cause they all ran 
to that side of the room.

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(woman) 
Oh, it's Bernie and Polly?

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(kids) 
Polly!

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I felt like one 
of the Beatles.

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One, two, three.

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(kids) 
HI, POLLY!

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(Bernie) 
Wow, well done.

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[applause and laughter]

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00:13:53,532 --> 00:13:55,968
The question is, 
do I live in the wagon?

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I do live in the wagon 
when I'm traveling.

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So there's 
a little woodstove there

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00:14:00,239 --> 00:14:02,074
so you can, like, 
cook in there

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and sleep in there.

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00:14:03,609 --> 00:14:06,579
So I live there on the road, 
and when I'm not traveling,

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00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:09,148
I have a home, yeah, 
up in the mountains.

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[gentle guitar 
and piano arrangement]

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I think 
my sense of adventure

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has just been 
chemically ingrained.

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00:14:16,889 --> 00:14:21,694
I think it's just 
the way my brain is wired.

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00:14:21,794 --> 00:14:24,230
I'm sure a neurologist 
could analyze it.

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00:14:24,330 --> 00:14:26,198
A behavioral psychotherapist

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00:14:26,298 --> 00:14:29,869
could tell you 
what all's going on,

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but there 
is this connection, this--

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this visceral feel 
to the land

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that you are tapped into

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as you walk across it 
with a mule,

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and I would mourn 
not being able to do that.

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00:14:46,585 --> 00:14:51,724
♪

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00:14:54,994 --> 00:14:57,329
[resonating strings 
lead guitar and bass]