Doc Watson - Live in Concert 1978

[Music] way downtown the way around took me to the jail Oh years old to go Bobby it was late last night when old when I came home here my rapping on the door he is identified museums all mama said Willie no you rapped over way downtown man around 282 the [Music] years old [Music] I wish I was over at my sweet Sally's house sitting in that big orgy armed around the whole guitar and your lawn around my dear without town the way around to be do the Oh me and it's all my Noah - gonna be [Music] no shirt is about all laptop Canada Brona than with me and do this over without town around took me to the Oh [Music] [Applause] [Applause] we have a new album out with the good folks at United Artists and the album's called Lonesome Road and I don't know if it ain't just about one of the the title song it about one of the loss of his songs ever heard and a life I learned it from my father-in-law the late Gaither Carlton somebody heard the name before I see I got a I got a play a little bit of harmonic on this me and Michael will pick a little dab on it before we get in but the first I got to do a little bit right here on harmonica to make it lonesome look up look down that Lonesome Road hang down your little head grah model hang down your little head grah [Music] the best of friends must part sometimes and why are you and wine of you [Music] the longest train I ever saw went down george'll my when bound then Georgia [Music] the only girl I ever is on that train and go is on the train [Music] the darkest night I Eversole was the day that I left my home was the day that 11 of my home and nine Berthold when we first made this awful day would come such an awful day would come [Music] look down that whoa hang down your little head and cry hang down your little and cry the best are free most part someday and why not you I love and why not you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] well marilla's meaning you and Clifton do a little right here's a good place to introduce these boys we'll just wait a min sleep somebody said doc Watson's coming up here will lays three more in the fellowship let me tell you who they are right quickly before we get into this flatpicking thing this man right here next to me on the base have been doing the good Harmon is his brother Michael Coleman from Greensboro North Carolina and that the next man on my guitar there next to Michael is brother cliff Miller from Asheboro North Carolina's making whoa [Applause] and that big old boy over there on the ends my son Merle Watson let's make him welcome good [Applause] and I've already been introduced so then you can say more about me and Merle I'll give you a little vampires and let's go with this year Nancy Rowland and I'd a basalt Creek on the end of that [Music] they can find ya [Music] [Music] Oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] I want to pick one that I used to hear my uncle Jake Miller play uncle Jake married my dad's one of my dad's older sisters and he was one of the people that I here to play the old-time banjo so I was a little boy this is a little court and song all about an old boy that had a big hill to walk over to work when he went to work on the railroad and he wished that the devil that Hill was ahead of the way and he was always a singing either when he was with his little girlfriend or when he's with away from her he's still saying something better once in a while probably with the railroad crew and the song goes like this [Music] [Music] [Music] we shall little teeth let your hair let you hand [Music] $9.00 show yes if you want some $9 showing when I Morna he knew that $50 the truth [Music] [Applause] [Music] I wish I delivered in the spring yes I wish I'd the lizard in the spring possibly learn in the spring human ignorance and I wish I the lizard in the spring oh let your hair down [Music] around Harrow don't block the big balls man no I don't like that railroad man oh man he's gonna keep me and began her [Music] [Applause] [Music] yes I wish dynamo [Music] oh I wish I could fly line yes we shine the fire like though [Music] don't bother me I wish i by the [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] from about 1950 to up to 62 I worked with the country swing group before I got into music really as a profession we played a lot of VFW halls and moose lodges and stuff like it had a good time at picking and I learned a whole bunch about flatpicking the guitar my music consisted of a bunch of the old pop standards and a whole bunch of the national teams at that time occasionally we we do square dead sets of the good old fiddle teams and that and that square dance caller would break marcozzi and run them about 30 minutes and we didn't have a fiddler in the group so I had to play all the lead he made me come to anyway one of some of the songs we played were songs of the contemporary music right here's a George Gershwin tune we used to play anyway come off sounding country when I picked it and it goes like this [Music] [Applause] [Music] summertime Lizzie catfish and Java [Music] and the cotton is high your Pappy's ring and your mama's good [Music] and posh little baby don't you cry one of these morning gonna rise up singing you're gonna spread out your wings zoun take to the sky until that day you can hash up your crime cause your Pappy and your mama star [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] now ball can't visit jumpin or encompasses ring [Music] little baby [Music] I should obey No onew cry [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you thank you very much this song is called peach picking time when it's peach pick a time in Georgia apple-picking time in Tennessee cotton baking time administered by then everybody picked on me when it's round in fact there and the Cowboys make a bee a way down Carolina [Music] they got the bluegrass and old Kentucky Virginia's where they do the swing Carolina I'm a-comin to you do you to spend the spring Arkansas I hear you calling me and the hope see you soon and they're gonna underneath that Ozark [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] if our time should overtake me I won't let the Blues get me cuz I got a sweetie pie way down south and I know she waits for me soon I'll be going to see her cousin don't be long and we'll call it [Music] [Music] when the people start to pick it up then I'll pick the wedding ring and we'll go to town to make a little girl for the wind in the spring you know I'm that old Richard knows his business only keeping me when it's beat speaking time and Georgia Lord its gal bigoted time [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] No Oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] there's a young man who sometimes sings on our show that does all of our flying or 99% of it all over the country mr. Larry Adams son if you'll come on up here I'll ask these folks to give you a kind heart a welcome there we'd like to do a good old gospel song right now while we got Larry if you're having a thing he doesn't awful good job elite singing on this it's called will the circle be unbroken Merle we'll ask you to do the honors [Music] [Applause] [Music] I was standing by my window on cold day when I saw that Love Hurts come rolling for to carry my mother away the circle be unbroken bye-bye there's a bad Oh in the sky and the sky then I go all Undertaker won't you please drive the hearse low for this lady [Music] here's my mother [Music] see [Music] the circle be unbroken my lord they're so bad Oh in the sky [Applause] back then at the house with lonesome since mama she would gone and all my brother and sisters crying also said let everybody wonder we own the circle be broken by [Applause] there's a Oh in the sky I remember those happy girl that we the fireside [Music] and I can't forget and that tearful party when she had [Music] No the circle be unbroken by Oh [Music] yeah [Music] thank you thank you [Applause] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Laughter] [Laughter] thank you thank you [Applause] [Music] along about 1825 I left Tennessee very much alive I never would have got through the Arkansas but if I McKenna's Easter [Music] had some trouble with my sweethearts ball one of her brothers was a better law sent her a letter by my uncle food and I rode away on the kinder sister the TVC stud but long lean the color of the Sun and his eyes the green [Music] he had the nerve and he was like the deceased uh [Music] one day while I ran through a beautiful and I ran smack into an Indian man jump turn eggs with a whoop in the air and away we went like a bat out of we're gonna camp for a time or two so for the Tennessee y'all can do I'm boars couldn't get my blood cause I was the right man the Tennessee stud but not mean the color of the Sun and his eyes green he has the nerve and the Hoff like the deceased uh [Music] so we drifted on down into no-man's land across that river called the Rio Grande I raced my house with the Spaniards fold ever got me skin for silver and gold me and the gamble liver couldn't agree forgotten to fight over Tennessee we turn our guns and he fell with a PUD and I got away all the Tennessee stir the Genesee stud but long me the color of the Sun and his eyes he had the nerve and never will the horse like the Tennessee star [Music] God judges lonesome as a man can be betting that up a girl in easy the tennessee stood screen eyes turned blue cause he was a dream another sweetheart too so we look back across Arkansas a beat-up brother and a walk the fall found that girl with the golden hair she was arriving on the limousine man [Music] the Tennessee stuffers long mean the color of the Sun and his ice cream he had many hands like potatoes Easter can I pick one [Music] stirrup stirrup from side by side we cross the mountains and the valleys wide game the Big Muddy them afforded a flood on the Tennessee mayor and the Tennessee's covered with a little baby on the cabin floor a little house called play around the door I love that girl with the golden hair and the disease Tennessee man it's good halted the Tennessee step but long lean the color of the Sun and his eyes agree he had never well off like the tennis east uh [Applause] thank you very much thank you [Applause]

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Views: 115,127

Rating: 4.9213028 out of 5

Keywords: Doc Watson, Country, Folk, Pickin'

Id: -4SAkCv6ri4

Length: 34min 17sec (2057 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 14 2019