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TOM T. HALL

IN CONCERT

RCA Victor AHL1-4749
April/1983
Produced by Roy Dea & Tom T. Hall
Recorded:
1983, live at The Grand Ole Opry House, Nashville

INTRO BY TANDY RICE

Three four ya'll help me
And here Ladies and Gentlemen
Live from the world famous stage of the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville Tennessee
Is Mr Tom T. Hall

Alright thank you thank you thank you very much
Why I thank you all very much and we'd like to thank RCA Victor records
And Mr Jerry Bradley and Mr Joe Galante for suggesting that we do this ablum
And we're glad you came out for this very special day for the Storytellers and me
And we're gonna sing you some songs that we've written down through the years
And kinda bring back some memories
I know a lot of you have been with us all down through these years
While we were pickin' and singin' these songs and writin' 'em
And I got to Nashville about twenty-one years ago
And that was before some of you were even born
But eh twenty-one years ago Roger Miller was ridin' a Honda
Mel Tillis couldn't get arrested eh what else was goin' on
Kris Kristofferson was a bartender Tanya Tucker was one year old
And eh Dolly Parton was a thirty-two B
Alright a long time ago

Well you folks have been nice to me and the Storytellers and our music down through the years
And here's one of the first songs not the very first but one of the first songs I recorded
And this a good tune about a job I used to have workin' in a cemetary or graveyard if you will
AndI made up this tune here and get a lot of requests for this travelin' around

Why I thank you all very much you're a beautiful audience and I know many of you by name
And I'm lookin' out in the audience and seein' some faces
Eh that I have seen on my country music tours around America and around the world
And the past twenty-one years and they really look good
I don't know how you folks are gettin' so old and I'm stayin' so young

Well here's a song I wrote about a young man
Who inspired me to be a guitar picker and a singer and a song writer
And without this young man's help I wouldn't be here today
And it would be a crime if I didn't mention him and sing a song about him
But this is a young man who was an original
He did his own kind of pickin' and own kind of singin'
And maybe he was an inspiration to me in that regard too
But he died when I was about seven or eight years old
And he was only nineteen or twenty years old at the time
I sometimes wish that he had lived
And you could have had an opportunity to hear him pick and sing
But since he can't be here today we'd like to do this song that I wrote about him
It's a tribute to him

Thank you
Well I'm gonna accept that compliment of that great applause
On behalf of Clayton and myself
Well I have been as you all know I write books
And I've written three books
And my latest book is a novel called The Laughin Men of Woodmont Coves
And it's just a great novel didn't it Ann
It's got punctuation and everything in it
And not only do I love to write I love to read
And I've been reading here of late I have been reading
Roy Clark's Big Note banjo book
Now I don't know if you all have one of these or not
But it teaches you how to play the banjo
And up until today this was the greatest five string banjo tune in the world
I love this tune it's written by the legendary Earl Scruggs a good friend of mine
And eh if ya'll like this I send Roy his money for his book

Oh boy I'm gonna send Roy his money
I don't know I might send him a case of lemonade to boot
Well you know when I was a little boy listenin' to music
I used to listen to Flatt and Scruggs
And I used to listen to the Stanley Brothers the Osmond Brothers
And all those great bluegrass groups back there in
Don Reno and Red Smiley were favorites of mine
Back in this song was recorded just ater the second world war
And I don't know if ya'll remember that or not but it was in all the papers
And everything real big real big war
And eh we won it just in case you didn't hear
But I love this song
I used to sit around on a battery operated radio and listen to this tune
Then when I grew up I learned to pick it a little bit
And ya'll tolerate this song this is a good 'en right here

Aww isn't that a good tune that takes you back awhile now
You have to have been around country music a long time to remember that one
Well I thank you all very much hey you're a great group
I'm gonna tell you who the rest of the Storytellers are
There's Drew Sexton on the piano Kenny Sordisdrum on the fiddle
Leon Watson on the bass Jimmy Mull on lead guitar
And Terry Butram who is a distant relative of the legendary Pat Butram
Who ran around with Gene Autry for years
And one of the young men here who has been with me
Longer than any of the other Storytellers three days
No a good friend of mine a good songwriter and a great musician Mr Ray Edwards
would ya'll give the Storytellers a little round of applause there

They're really a good bunch of boys and these gentlemen have been with me a long time
And just this year we've been to a lot of foreign countries
We've been to Australia New Zealand Japan Ireland England New York
We've been in a lot of foreign countries this year
Well one of my favorite songwriters is my brother Hillman Hall
Who wrote Pass Me By for Johnny Rodriguez and a lot of good country and western songs
And when you get one of your favorite songwriters
And another one of your favorite songwriters together and they write a song
You really kind of get attached to it
And Hal Bynum one of the writers on eh what is that song about
Four hungry children and a crop in the fields what is that song
Lucille yeah that's the name of it Hal Bynum helped write Lucille
And Brother Hillman and Hal Bynum got together and wrote this song
Two really good songwriters and I'd like to do one of their tunes for you
This is a good one too it's called Please Don't Tell Ruby Where I'm At

Well I wanna sing this song I wrote this song for my wife
I've been married to the same woman
I've been in love with the same woman for twenty years
And if my wife if finds out about it she'll kill me
I'll tell you that

No that's an old joke
But Miss Dixie and I who many of you know
Have been married well somewhere around twenty years something like that
And on occasion I have been a bad boy to say the least
That's nice of you you should have been there when I came in
And it's very fortunate that a man could grow up and be successful in what he does
And marry a person with whom he is happy
And I wrote this song for Miss Dixie and I'll sing it for her now
For all of you

Aww what a beautiful audience
Well you know I'd like to take this group on the road with me
And I'd also like to take this audience would really simplify my life wouldn't it
Just have a big crowd and a nice group everywhere you go
Well well I want I know you've been a great audience and I hate to impose on you
But I want you to sing a song with me now and I wanna tell you that
Well you know of course that this program is being recorded
And will probably be re-broadcast to our arm forces fighting in Fort Knox Kentucky
Or in Louisville down on 4th street
But I want you all to sing this song with me and you have a very simple part in it now
And if you can remember this it's really gonna sound great
Your part is makes him feel mellow
Can you remember that
Now I want you to sing out real loud
And exuberant and and enthusiastic and everything
And the Lea Jane singers are gonna kind of lead the vocal group
They'll sing with us too
And don't sing till I point at you cause we'll have to stop and start all over
And we'll be singin' this song all week
Here we go
Now the audience is gonna disappear they get thirsty they won't come back
Well I wanna sing this song here
I love this song I wrote this song several years ago
And there's some songs that kinda hang around
And you remember them from time to time
And I'm so grateful to the disc jockeys of America
Because as I travel across this country and around the world
Once in awhile on the radio I will hear this song
And it reminds me that a good song stays around a long time
And this was never a single record was never a hit record
But I'm so happy that I keep hearin' it from time to time
It means a lot to a songwriter and I suppose to a singer
And we'd like to do this song for you

Thank you very much thank you well I love those old songs
Well you know I have recorded several songs
A couple of albums for little children
And I really like little children my mother had some
And everywhere I go I used to go pickin' and singin' at country music shows
And I would see the kids come down to the front row of the shows
And all I had to sing for them was I Like Beer
And I like that song but I thought it would be nice if I had some other song
That I could sing for them
So I wrote two albums of childrens songs
And I've really made a lot of friends out of a lot of beautiful little people
And I feel very blessed about that and very happy about it
Because children of course are the future of country music
And they're the future of America
And I'm glad to have 'em for friends because when they take over they're gonna like me
I don't know what they'll think about the rest of you folks but they'll like me
I'm gonna sing this song this is my most requested children's song here
And if any of you children wanna sing along on this well you're perfectly welcome

Thank you aww thank you music lovers
Well I'm always glad when people bring their children out to my shows
And I try never to embarrass them or confuse them
Lord knows they're confused enough and I am too for that matter
But I love to sing this song I had a psychiatrist friend Nat Winston
A good friend of mine who is a psychiatrist
And we talked about you get up in the morning
And you make a list of all of your little troubles
and the list is never as long as you might imagined it to be
And but you do you write down these little pet peeves
Things you really don't care anything about like parsley you know
But I got up one morning and I thought well that's kind of a negative thing to do
Write down things you don't like
So I got up one morning and wrote down a list of all the things that really make me happy
And eh you my friends and country music fans are on that list
And so I'd like to sing this song for you

Aww thank you aww you're beautiful
Well I've sung this song all over the world
And eh I would like to thank Cam Mullins
And the folks from the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and there abouts
Cam has been with me a long time ever since I started makin' records
And he's conducting the strings tonight and he's a good friend of mine
And he's a good golfer lies about his handicapp but you can't do everything right
And the Lea Jane Singers
We've made a lot of records togetherand they're great folks
And it's always a pleasure to see them lookin'
See them all cleaned up with a shower and everything I don't know a special night
And the Storytellers who have been with me on many a mile down the road
And this is the song that sorta got me off the streets I guess
This is the song that has some songs come and go
And this one has been around awhile
And I thank God for this old gentleman in Miami Beach Florida
Who shared his philosophy of life with me and I'd like to share it with you

Thank you very much thank you
Well you've been a great group and we want to thank our engineers
We want thank Chuck Haines our good friend in the booth
We wanna thank Roy Day our producer
And we would like to say as a parting note on this historic occasion
Al Pachucki would you get us out of here please
Thank ya'll very much God bless you goodnight thank you
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