Tom Rush at Symphony Hall - "A New Year" 1983

[Music] funding for tom rush at symphony hall a new year is provided by this station and other public television stations nationwide [Music] [Applause] tonight the music of tom rush [Applause] [Music] from boston tom rush at symphony hall a new year with special guests emmy lou harris [Applause] david bromberg and david buskin and robin bateau [Music] i am blessed with her devotion mother provides for me now i am going on a journey and i pray all things in will while mother earth provides for me i will follow faithfully green trees [Music] mother provides for me [Applause] [Music] so [Music] these are times when i am helpless mother makes all things [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] me [Music] way up north by the ice bound ocean i was born and i was born way up north in the merrimack county that's my home that's my home when i was younger and in my schooling i walked the mountains made a storm [Music] i did wish i was grown and gone [Music] but as i grew indeed i rambled out along the open road there i learned the rainbow circle is truly said that's a sign of storm [Music] and i'm old my dreams they wonder far away and yesterday i'm going home to the merrimack county find the grass that hides my greens [Music] stony mountain [Music] that's home to me [Music] [Applause] me we're gonna have a lot of fun here we've got uh emmylou harris joining us a little bit mr david bromberg will be joining us [Music] right now i'd like to show you what these guys can do [Music] something gotta hold on me something maybe god told me there is gold on the river everywhere [Music] riding on the river with sam to pre the great [Music] [Applause] maybe god told me there is [Music] she and i climbed the [Music] something maybe god told me there is gold on the river [Music] [Music] is a fortune [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] the great forgiver [Music] [Applause] [Music] there is [Music] there [Music] [Music] thank you like to introduce a couple of my guests here we've got with us mr david brownberg and this emily lou harris hello welcome to boston thank you it's wonderful to be this place is very beautiful i like it nice place you got here this is a song i could have easily learned off a tom rush record it's his style of tune [Music] [Applause] now you wear your [Music] she began to cry [Applause] and sank into your dreams abandoned [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] blues [Music] nobody knows [Music] is [Music] the poet's still [Music] you [Music] now he's grown [Music] [Applause] up [Music] you bring [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] this wasn't really uh part of the job description when i invited uh david to join us this evening but uh i'd like to invite him to do a song on his own for you and he said yes [Music] ah wake up mama turn your lamp down low i say wake up turn your leg down how did how did you get the nerve to drive me away from your dog you're a mighty mean warmer to do me this way your mighty mean girl treat your daddy this way yeah when i leave town this time sweetheart you best believe this time i'm going away to stay yeah folks i once loved a woman sweetest thing i've ever seen i had the love of a girl just the sweetest thing you've ever seen yes she treated me like i was a king like she was a doggone queen my mama let me run regulars boys daddy drove me wild wow wow [Music] my mama let me run real quick daddy drove me wow wow i know i'm not good-looking but i swear i must be some sweet mama's angel [Music] i say your sister tell your brother brother tell your auntie and tell your uncle i'm gonna tell your cousin cousin tell your friend you know i'm going to the country mama do you wanna go i might bring a long girl like my brain i don't want it tomorrow big h that's around a little when i stop you should have seen me call the farmer when i got the ball of her come on reach over mama hand me my traveling shoes i want you to know right now good people i got the state squirrel blue went out of chinese bells ring and the secretary is saying the preacher preached catching hit his sister shot the children up in the public just trying to learn that song yeah that low down dirty deacon up and got my girl and gone hey i'll get my back to head i brought you the big gun brother give me back the shoes i want the pearls and all if you don't love your daddy you got no right to stand and squat give me back the wig i bought you the chicago head go bar i done more for your woman well last winter i suffered through the summer i scuffled to the full i've done more for you mama than god in heaven ever done yeah i put help on your head and you knew that he never gave you a [Music] nah i think the woman was trying to tell me to go she had a knife to ask me if a matchbox could hold my clothes boy as a camping old bag was the superintendent i ain't getting up on no tibble and i promised a good lord [Music] you know going to the country baby do you want to go i might bring it along mama come on bro when i stop to the senior caller when they got the ball of hot come on reach over mama hear me my traveling shoes and you know the ones by now i want you to understand good people i've got the state squirrel blue i got them too come on [Music] i got them too i got them mr david bromberg i'd like to do your songs written by a new hampshire neighbor of mine mr todd [Music] [Applause] mckinney [Music] now dawn has come bringing only a veiled gaze [Music] the sun in vain tries to burn away the haze well she left and the word unspoken let the dream be broken don't sail away don't sail away sail away sweden now looking back the night swim stars and moon stood still close to her the warm winds made our wings to fill but she left and the word unspoken let the dream be broken [Music] the wind has turned [Applause] sending her further sending her further further [Music] ocean born [Music] sweet [Music] now the sea has come memories blow like driftwood to the shore [Applause] believe in me so much more lonely than before where she left and the word unspoken let the dream be broken don't sail away don't sail away sail away sweden don't sail away don't sail away sail away sweetie don't sail away don't sail away sail away sweet and [Applause] thank you this is mr david buskin mr robin bateau and they're going to do a song for you now there he sat by the river by the road watching for an old man waiting for the signal to begin [Music] the gold mercedes slowed down and pulled aside a golden lady opened the door and stepped into the night she could see the silhouette of someone in the moonlight a boy [Music] are you okay would you like to travel my way if you need to lay down i know where you can stay young boy with the violin the boys [Music] foreign all the way to mansion he never said a word [Music] so he lay in the guest room he didn't notice her coming his eyes were far from what was happening she pulled back the covers and she kissed his tender skin a boy [Music] she woke in the morning [Music] and she did not understand but the window was wide open her heart she was [Music] so [Applause] and the stars just keep on [Music] [Music] i just came up on the midnight special hey how about that [Music] my car broke down in texas stopped dead in her tracks [Music] i just called to tell you that i love you i just called to tell you on how i feel [Music] i feel like some old engine [Music] [Applause] [Music] lost my driving [Music] [Applause] well you can't say much in a phone call because you know how it is [Music] but i call to tell you one short thing won't you listen to this [Music] i just gonna tell you that i need you and i need to tell you i feel like [Music] i feel like [Music] away [Music] [Applause] [Music] was i lost my driving [Music] [Applause] [Music] uh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] mr josh enough of this serious stuff let's get [Music] silly [Music] well i know man he's a hard-working man he gets up early and he goes downtown about 15 minutes after he's been gone there's a big milk truck pulls up on the lawn that milkman dashes up to the door where that man's wife is waiting in a kimono she puts a big old kiss on his cheek and they go inside well that truck never moves for an hour or two now it's none of my business one day i took him aside and i told him what was going on while he was gone and he said well yep that may be so but don't you know we're never out of milk or cottage cheese or yogurt he's making the best of a bad situation don't want to make waves can't you see making the best of a bad situation reckon i'd do the same if it was me well i know a lady she's a real fine lady wouldn't harm a fly just trying to get by and keep her house in order but you know her husband he worked so hard did he come unglued he come unwrapped just snapped thinks he's a chicken ruth's in a bush by the side of the house it's none of my business but one day i took her aside and i asked her if she hadn't ever thought about trying to find him a doctor who could make him well she said well yeah now and then but then again he don't eat much just chicken feed all that pecking in the yard don't hurt nothing never knows we can use the eggs she's making the best of a bad situation don't want to make waves can't you see making the best of a bad situation reagan i'd do the same if it was me well i know a man he's an educated man he's an alligator wrestler he just jumps on in there and grabs them long green slithers about whatever you grab them long green slithers by now one day he was wrestling this one alligator this other alligator scampered up behind him and bit both the ears right off his head didn't bat an eye he just crawled off in the shade and took a nap the alligator not the man it's none of my business but one day i took him aside and i told him i thought it was a terrible shame about that little accident that he had getting his ears bit off you know cause from now on his hat's gonna fall down over his eyes he won't ever be able to be a gypsy because he's got no place to hang a gold earring i told him that he looked me right in the eye and he said huh he's making the best of a bad situation don't want to make ways can't you see making the best of a bad situation reagan i'd do the same if it was me we're all making the best of a bad situation we're all in this together you and me let's get into back out here [Music] a song about a louisiana ladies call louisiana [Music] eyes [Music] do you realize you have captured me that i can't get free i am paralyzed [Music] [Applause] [Music] losing [Music] see every day [Music] texas louisiana eyes [Applause] [Music] this lake charles morning [Music] [Applause] is on a northwest course come on with me [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] i yeah enemy harris i want to get you to sing on this last song we're going to do for you trust me you'll love it let's try it out [Music] [Applause] is [Music] you gotta go [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] town [Music] heavy [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] won't you come back after me [Music] watching my mother [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] just cause you gotta go [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you all for being with us thank you [Music] thanks foreign um i want to do you a medley of my hit [Music] [Applause] there's a song and an instrumental stuck together in the middle as though by magic and it's uh the song is pretty straightforward self-explanatory it's called no regrets thank you i didn't do it yet the instrumental the instrumental is about a place up north of here called rockport [Applause] [Music] so [Music] i know you're leaving's too long overdue [Music] for far too long i've had nothing new to show to you goodbye dries i watched your plane fade off west of the moon and it felt so strange [Music] to walk away alone there's no regrets no tears goodbye don't want you back we'd only cry again say goodbye [Music] again our friends have tried to turn my nights today [Music] strange faces in your place can't keep the ghosts away [Music] now just beyond the darkest hour just behind the dawn still feels so strange to lead my life [Music] there's no regrets [Music] no tears goodbye i don't want you back [Music] goodbye [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] so [Music] [Music] foreign [Applause] [Applause] [Music] i locked my doors the sun went down said goodbye to boston mass turnpike to route 15 you take me all down to the new york scene from another tires sure is pretty think about the women in new york city on the road again but i can't stop more than just a few minutes later make love to you hey hey i'm on the road again to the jersey pike fly by philly in the middle of the night [Music] long hair [Music] [Applause] [Music] funding for tom rush at symphony hall a new year is provided by this station and other public television stations nationwide now here's a look ahead to tonight on thirteen [Music] sunday on public tv join muppeteer jim henson in a behind the scenes look at the making of his latest feature on the world of dark crystal then a special two-hour masterpiece theater starring poldark's robin ellis in ford maddox ford's the good soldier they were the model cop he was as devoted as it was possible to be and she was so extraordinarily the real thing she seemed too good to be true the good soldier following the world of dark crystal sunday [Music] tonight there's magic on 13 the puppetry of jim henson a special to our masterpiece theater presentation and a look at the faith of bronx community leaders in rebuilding their neighborhoods on metrocosms all this and more ahead tonight [Music] [Applause] [Music] this concludes our broadcast day on channel 13 wnet owned and 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Keywords: Tom Rush, Boston Symphony Hall, Emmylou Harris, David Bromberg

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Length: 59min 58sec (3598 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 25 2020