Johnny Cash - Christmas show 1977

hello I'm Johnny Cash good evening good evening hello Bill Walker hi Mama thank you Christmas Time's coming Christmas Time's coming Christmas time's coming and I know I'm going home snowflakes falling old homes calling Tall Pines are humming Christmas 's coming can't you hear them bells ringing ringing joy joy hear them singing when it's snowing I'll be going back to my country home Christmas Time's coming Christmas time coming Christmas Time's coming and I know I'm going home why can't candles burning my old heart's yearning for the old folks at home when Christmas 's coming can't you hear them bells ringing ringing joy joy hear them singing when it's snowing I'll be going back to my country home Hol in the window home is where the wind blows can't walk for running Christmas time for coming can't you hear them bells ringing ringing joy joy hear them singing when it's s and I'll be going back to my country home all right Christmas time coming Christmas Time's coming Christmas time coming and I know I'm going home Christmas Time's coming Christmas Time's coming Christmas Time's coming and I know I'm going home I'm all right the Johnny Cash Christmas show from Nashville starring Johnny Cash with special guest star Roy Clark and also starring June Carter gash The Carter family Jerry Lee Lewis Roy Orbison Carl Perkins and The Statler Brothers you know thank you very much you know it seems that as soon as Thanksgiving is over the Christmas season begins well that's the way it is with our show tonight the beginning of the Christmas season and of that of the Christmas spirit for all of you we hope I'm going to tell you about some of the most important Christmases in my life in Germany in Memphis in Canada in Israel but right now I'd like you to meet the best Christmas present I ever had June Carter Cash oh I'm telling you thank you is it the it's the best time of the year really is it sure is you know it's a time when folks think of home and presents and of their favorite Christmas cars and gifts and of and of triming the tree and what's under the tree hey you know what I get the feeling that you're trying to tell me something June no that's not it really I I just was trying to ask you something oh what was that what'd you get me for Christmas I'll tell you what I'll take you Christmas shop in June all right that's a deal if you if you'll sing a song with me H I'd like to do like to we'll do that uhhuh compion come on and give me understanding let me be your Champion the hand to hold your pretty handed Companion now you know you never be abandoned love will always light land I can depend on you oh a little Saucy Mar like you should heav a Ste a little ring down from you is what I need Companion now you know you never be abandon love will always light or land I can't depend on you don't hurt yourself mama companion come on and give me understanding long as we keep laughing bear in mind just what can happening companion I tell the mountains and the canyon long as I got leg to stand on I'm going to sck by you a little saly Mar like you should heavy Ste a little ring down from you is what I need Darling Companion I tell the mountains and the Canyons long as I got to stand on I'm going Tock by you compion I tell the mountains and the Canyons long as I got to stand I'm going to sck by you Christmas Memories I've had a lot of them a Christmas that changed my life came when I was 20 years old I was in the Air Force in Germany I was lonesome homesick and I had no idea what I wanted to do with the rest of my life but one day I walked four miles through the snow to a little pawn shop where there was guitar in the window with a $5 price tag and although I didn't know it then my life started to change I started with three chords that a buddy taught me and I took an old folk song and started to try to learn to accompany myself on the guitar the first one I Learned was C Jimmy crack corn and I don't care number two chord was G7 Jimmy crack corn and I don't care back to seat Jimmy crack corn and I don't care and there's F that's the big biggy the hard one the Master's gone away I spent 3 years in Germany and my main contact with the American Music I love so much came from Armed Forces Radio a big hit in America then was Rosemary Clooney's This Old House it was a big hit in our Barracks too and The Statler Brothers and the Tennessee 3 are going to help me show you what it was like we're going to recreate that time and that move come on here now 20 years you're going to be Johnny C This Old House want my children This Old House once you my wife This Old House was home and comfort as we F the storms of life This Old House once rang with laughter This Old House heard many shouts now she trembles in the darkness when the lightning walks about well a going to this house we ain't going to need this house ain't got time to fix the shingles ain't got time to fix Ain got time in the window ain't going to this noting ready to meet the sa this house is getting Shak this house is a getting old This Old House the rain this Iain Ang broken window now my old hound dog lies asleeping he don't know I'm going to leave else he'd wake up by the fireplace and he'd sit there and how and Bre but my hunting Days Are Over ain't going to hunt the no more Gabriel just brought in my Chariot when the wind blew down the door but I to this long ain't going to thisin got to fix shingin got to fix the floor ain't got time in the window pain ain't going to need this house no I'm get ready to meet this going to e this house so longer a't going to need this house no more ain't got time Ain got time ain't got time wind pain going to need this house no longer I'm getting ready to the all right yeah you know I had some good times in the service but I didn't really know what lonely was until Christmas time came around overseas thousands of miles away from home and I missed home miss my family and a young lady or two you remember who they were no no I don't don't remember no I'm not going to tell you but there's a song that brings those memory back and I'd like to do it I a blue Christmas I'll have a blue Christmas without you I'll be so blue thinking about you decorate of red on a green Christmas tree want me to say if you're not here with me I'll have a blue blue Christmas that's certain and when those blue blue heartaches start hurting you'll be doing all right with your Christmas of white but I'll have a blue blue Christmas I'll have a blue Christmas without you I'll be so blue thinking of you decorations of red all a green Christmas tree what me a thing if you're not here with me I a blue Christmas and when the good you are a star you'll be do and all right with your Christmas of white but I'll have a blue blue Christmas blue blue Christmas without you thank you all right you know Christmas time Christmas time is a time for traditions this is our second Christmas special and we seem to be building a little tradition of our own right here because Roy Clark was our special guest last year and here he is again Roy Clark thank John I I want you to know one thing I've been called a lot of things in the past but never a tradition oh really what have you been called well I've been called a handsome talented versatile slim wavyhair dashing deire sophisticated cute as a butt get back have I forgotten anything yes you did what did I forget modest oh yeah and modest oh yeah Roy CL thank you J thank you you know Roy in preparing the music for this show Bill Walker and I we were looking at the songs and we suddenly realized that that three of the biggest Christmas songs were made hits by one man I know what you mean and every country music singer owes something to the original singing Cowboy Gan arrey that's right I know that someday you'll want me to want you when I'm in love with somebody L and in every Christmas season the memory of Gan alry comes back with three gold record hits Here Comes Santa Claus Here Comes Santa Claus right down Santa Claus Lane vix and BLS and all his reindeers pulling on the rain Bells Are Ringing children singing all is Merry and bright hang your stockings and say your prayers Santa Claus comes toight for the children the Snowman was a jolly happy soul with a corn C pip and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal Frosty the Snowman is a fairy tale they say he was made of snow but the children know how he came to life one day there must have been some magic in that old Silk hat they found or when they placed it on his head he began to dance around Frosty the Snowman was alive as he could be and the children say he could laugh and play just the same as you and me you know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and Cupid and Donner and biten but do you recall the most famous reindeer of a very shiny and if you ever saw it you would even say itow all of the other ree used to let and call him Christmas eve Santa came to say Rudolph with your nose so bright won't you guide my sle tonight then thee as they shouted out with the red no reindeer you go down in history you in history another Christmas memory the year was 1955 the place was 706 Union Avenue in Memphis Tennessee the sign on the door said Sun Records and A Man Named Sam Phillips ran the place it was a small record company it featured several Young singers looking for that big break and I was one of them this was my first Christmas as a professional singer and here's a song I was doing back then yeah with our heart weeping willow how to cry and the shoulder Clouts out of cover up a clear blue sky and the tears I cried for that woman going flood you big river and I'm going to sit right here until I die I met her accidentally in St Paul Minnesota and it tore me up every time I heard a draw Southern draw then I heard my dream went back Downstream Corton in Davenport and I followed you Big Riv when you call baby when you then you took me to St Louis later on down a river a frer said she's been here but she's gone boy she's gone I found a trail in Memphis but she just walked up the bluff she raised a few eyebrows and went on down alone won't you bat it down the bat R through the queen roll it on take that woman on down to New Orleans New Orleans go on I have had enough of my Blues down in a Gul she loves you big river more than me love you more than uhhuh yes I talk to weep and Willow how to cry cry cry showed the clouds how to cover of a clear blue sky and the tears are cried for that woman going to flood you big river and I'm going to sit right here until I die all right thank you two of the men you see here go back with me those Sunday Marshall Grant goes back to the very beginning started together 22 years ago Marshall Grant and WS Holland fluke Holland we call him is another Oldtimer with us been my drummer for 19 years years now fluke take a bell and starting his 10th year with us is my lead guitarist and my brother-in-law Bob Wooten that's the Tennessee 3 and the other two fine musicians are Jerry Hensley on guitar and Earl ball on piano all right well you know if there was one record that put Sun Records on the map in those early days it was blue W shoes written and sung first by this man right here my friend Carl Perkins it's One for the Money Two For the Show three to get it ready now go cat go but don't you st my blue s shoe you can do anything but lay off on my blue SED shoe you can knock me down stepping my face sling my name all over the place do anything you want to do but my baby L off of my shoes and don't you step on my blue s Sho do anything but lay off on my blue s Sho all right you can burn my house steal my car drink my liquor from my old fruit job do anything you want to do baby lay off of my shoes and don't you step on my blue s Sho you can do anything but lay off on my blue SED shoes all right Rock it's a One for the Money Two For the show free to get it ready now go C over don't you step on my blue SED shoe you can do anything but lay off on my blue SED shoe well BL BL blue Sho blue blue blue shoot blue blue s you blue blue blue s you do anything but play off my blue SS you a close friend of mine ever since those Sun record days is Roy Orbison I remember one time he was kind of discouraged and came for me for advice about what to do you know and I said Roy I think you should change your name and lower your voice boy was that some bad advice because it wasn't too long until he had the biggest record in the whole wide world it was pretty woman and here is Roy Orbison pretty woman walking down the street pretty woman kind of like to me pretty woman I don't believe you you're nothing TR no one could look that good as you Mercy Prett woman won't you Pardon Me Pretty Woman I couldn't help but see pretty woman you look lonely as can be are you lonely Just Like Me Pretty Woman stle white pretty woman talk White pry woman give your smile to me pretty woman yeah yeah yeah pretty woman look my way PR woman say you say with me cuz I need you I'll cre you right come to me baby we tonight Pretty Woman Don't Walk On By pretty woman don't make me cry pretty woman don't walk away okay and that you it must be okay I guess I'll go home it's late don't tomorrow night but what do I see is she walking back to me yeah she walk give back to me oh you know what they called us back in those Sun record days rockabillies one of the young men at Sun Records really typified rockabilly on the labels of his records They had mentioned his pumping piano and that could only be the killer the Great Jerry Lee Lewis I'm over baby hold a shing going on I'm over baby baby you can't go wrong I a has a whole lot of shaking going on well come over baby we got chicken in the B look got the bo by the horn I never had a whole L of shaking going on baby shake it shake it baby shake it sh it baby shake it baby shake it baby shake it baby shake it baby shake it baby shake it come on over whole lot of shaking going on let's go now I'm on over baby we got chicken in the bar his b one b my B jail got the bo by on I never make hanging in all night long easy now baby all you got to do honey standing thing in one little spot wiggle it around a little bit then you know what you got come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on I ain't beging oh lot of shaking going on of Shing yeah thank you well I dreaming of a white Christmas just like the ones I I used to know where those Treetops glisten you know children used to listen to hear those SLE bells and the snow sow I I I'm Dreaming have a wine Christmas with every Christmas card I Rite may your days may your days be merried and bright and they all your chrm there be why God thank you of course there were others of Sun Records Charlie Rich was there so was Conway Twitty and there was another one in fact after appearing at high school auditoriums and places like that I worked my very first concert as a guest and he was a star and he always was a star because all of us remember him and how he love gospel songs and how we liked him the song is for Elvis come on fellas let's do it for this train is Bound for Glory this train this train is Bound for Glory this train this train is Bound for Glory nobody R but the right and the holy this train is Bound for Glory this train this train don't care no gamblers this train this train don't care no gamblers this train this train don't care no gamblers no crap Shooters and the midnight Ramblers this train don't care no gamblers this train you know this train don't carry no jok this train there old train it don't carry no Jokers this train there's old train it don't carry no joker no high tone women I'm SAR smokers this train I'm talking about God's train yeah this train is B glor this train is bound Glory this train this train is bound Glory nobody the r and the Str is Found Glory the Str the Str don't care no Li this train this train don't care no lies this train this train no can lies no slow Walkers midnight Flyers this train no can liar this train let me tell you fell this train is last train this train you hear me say this train is the last train this train this old train is the last train to get on board she ain't coming back again go this train is the last train train this train this train is bound Glory this train this train is bound Glory this train this train is bound Glory nobody riding but the right and the ho this train is Bound for Glory this train this train is Bound for Glory this train this train is Bound for GL this train this train is B for GL right but the right and in this train is B Glory this train the most important Christmas of my life was 1968 that's the year I married June Carter and that year we made our first trip to the Holy Land and the angel said unto them fear not for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all people for unto you is Born This Day in the city of David a savior which is Christ the lord and this shall be a sign unto you you shall find the Babe wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger and suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the Heavenly Host praising God in the highest and on Earth peace Good Will toward men s night holy night all is come all is bright round mother and child holy so tender and my sleep and be sleep in Heavenly silent night holy night sheers the glor dreams from Heaven ofar Heavenly Host sing Hallelujah Christ theor is Christ the savior is a trip to the Holy Land is a visit to the Cornerstone of our faith and this year we returned first to Jerusalem and Bethlehem oh little town of bethleem how still we see the light high above the deep and dreamless the silent stars go by yet in the dark Street shining the ever lasting light the and fears of all the years a made in the tonight Angels Sing glory to the newborn king his all Earth and Mer Mery God and S recile Jo for all the nation right Jo the tri of the sking Christ is born heart the her angel sing Glory the newor this body of water is a Sea of Galilee and it was to these Shores that Jesus came and this is the land of Galilee where went about his ministry of love and healing healing not only the bodies but the spirits of men as well Gathering men and women into the Kingdom of Heaven follow me and I'll make you Fishers of Men He said and he chose for himself 12 disciples to carry on his eternal work he preached the gospel of good news for Humanity eternal life through him at one time he sent forth 70 disciples as sheep among wolves two by two children go where I send thee how shall I send thee I'm going to send thee two by two two by Paul and silus one by the little bitty baby who was bornn Bor in Bethlehem children go here I send the how oh shall I send the I'm going to send the 3 by three he said three by the Hebrew children and two by Paul and silus W by the little bitty baby who was born BN born in bethleem children go where I send the how shall I send the I'm going to send the 6 by6 6 by six that couldn't get it fixed 5 by five couldn't get five four by four they couldn't get in the three by the Hebrew children two by and Sil one by the little bitty baby who was born born in bethleem children go where I send the how shall I send thee I'm going to send the 9 by9 9 by9 the dress So seven by seven I couldn't get to heaven 6 by couldn't get it fixed father couldn't get oh my couldn't get in the door children two byze one by the little bitty baby who was bornn children go where I send it how shall I send I'm going to sendy 12 by 12 12 by the 12 get by couldn't get 10 by 10 who couldn't get in N the dress Fire by the G couldn't get couldn't get couldn't get my father couldn't get in the door the Hebrew children by the little B baby who was born born born in Bethlehem who was born my God all all right well that's our show tonight coming to you from Music City and The Holy Land I hope you've enjoyed it I'd like to thank Our Guest for being with us tonight and for doing such a great job hope you have a nice Christmas and I'll see you when we all get home yeah I I

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Length: 44min 51sec (2691 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 30 2014