Toby Keith - A Country Boy Can Survive

welcome back to TM pjn ladies and gentlemen Martina McBride 1 August day in 1975 Hanks spirit of adventure nearly into his life thank you forensic Willie indict 11 year old son walls wake up early to go sheep hunting along the Continental Divide separating Idaho and white Hannah they are 11,000 feet in the air ain't gingerly stepped onto a snow field placing his feet in the boot prints and Dick and Walt we've just crossed before him he'd get halfway across and then the ground beneath him did play tank tumbled hard and fast 520 feet down a Jackson em only a giant grey boulder stop the momentum when Hank touches his face he finds that it is been shattered miraculously though he is alive hurrying and hopeless he talks to his dad about the demons he has fought after his adult life he had certain that he'll never entertained again he asked God for a second chance to get life right Hank has said I felt the despair and self-loathing peel away from me thankfully Hank God did answer your prayer on a gem amount Met Office day and I think you do I can't imagine the world congratulations [Music] [Applause] I was going around the mountains there on Idaho Montana border and we were descending and we're way up high and it was basically an avalanche now I went out there and the whole thing went down it's gone I said I'll never be out of here I didn't know how badly I was hurt people it was it was a deal of laying there in the snow and keeping a beat on a rock with one hand you know but I really thought I would not make it through that [Music] like a lot of a doctors had you but you don't know if you're supposed to count deer or play songs you've been left here to do something ladies and gentlemen the father and son who helped save Hank live on a-deck Mountain please welcome loitering friends Hicks and Walt Lilly I was only 11 years old the day Hank fell but one look and I knew things were very serious people do not realize just how badly Hank was hurt that day when I finally reached him at the bottom of the mountain I took off my shirt and tied up what was left of his face then I left Walt to stay with him while I went to find help before dad left us he told me don't let Hank go to sleep keep talking to him I talked about everything from football and hunting and how we were going to go fishing that day after he got back i sat on that mountain for nearly four hours before a rescue helicopter finally found us they strapped Hank to the chip side of the chopper and flew him away I still have a note that Hank gave me two days after the fall and it says Walt thanks for saving me Hank Williams jr. [Music] in the months after the accident the media credited me with saving Hank's life but I think we all know there was a greater power on that mountain that day they had bigger plans for Hank Williams Jim [Music] and our families have become very close printer accident we've been through a lot together you earn these living troops at a country boy can survive ladies and gentlemen Dovahkiin [Applause] [Music] we commentaires at the end the time and the Mississippi River see the who and I the interest is up and the markets down on you mom did you go downtown [Music] I live back in the window to see a woman le kids and adults and me got a shotgun arrival and of cool wheel drive country boys come to buy [Music] ah you [Applause] while beaut all day long guest catfish from the still doll or New Zealand [Music] make her own wiki grow our own smoke to give him anything he zoloft a new [Music] all the mayor made wine can the bye [Music] jeez [Music] man you I'm from the West Virginia coal mines in the Rocky Mountains and the western sky [Music] even SCANA buff run a trotline and a country boy can divide country folk I [Applause] [Music] at a good friend new New York City never call me mama Linda [Music] I'm go for me now to live all the land he found him to be a businessman [Music] please send me pictures of the Broadway night [Music] but he was killed by man with a switchblade knife before t3 not as my friend lost his love he'll I don't love is missing beats none never dies you aim with my 45 controversy [Applause] [Music] take a mega we're them all come there weekend and that we down [Applause] California South Alabama little bitty town around its lair oh we can country boy can survive I understand by oh damn [Music] [Music] [Applause] up next the Pittsburgh Steelers and Carrie Bradshaw plus Steven Tyler and Flint legend Buddy Guy with CMC gif which

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Length: 9min 22sec (562 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 24 2017