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[rhythmic clapping]
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- Yeah.
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- That's exactly
what you're doing.
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- It is.
- The airplane shot me down.
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- Yeah?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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- Go around the back
and through the passage way.
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[cheering]
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- Helen, June and Anita,
the Carter Family.
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[cheering]
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- It's very nifty to be able
to entertain you
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a little bit today,
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and I don't know
what you're expecting,
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since we're all girls, and...
[laughter]
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Since we're the only girls
on the show,
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but I've got one announcement
to make before we do our part.
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This is as sexy
as I'm gonna get.
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[laughter]
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- [whistles]
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- No, this is
our little family,
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and we sing the songs mostly
of the old Carter family,
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and, well, we've been around
these parts for a long time,
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and we're proud to be part
of The Johnny Cash Show.
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We're gonna sing some new ones
and some old ones.
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So sit back, relax,
take your hands out
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of each other's pockets, and--
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[laughter]
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We'll sing a few little songs
for you,
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and then you'll see
who you've come to see.
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Old Golden Throat
will be right out.
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[laughter]
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[Johnny Cash and June Carter's
"Jackson"]
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- * Look out, Jackson town *
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* Well, go on down to Jackson *
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* Go ahead
and wreck your health *
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* Go play your hand,
you big talking man *
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* And make a big fool
of yourself *
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* Yeah, go to Jackson *
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- I think for most people,
when they think about
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June Carter Cash,
they're probably thinking
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about Reese Witherspoon.
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- Will you marry me?
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- Because that film,
"Walk the Line,"
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was really
June's mass exposure,
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I think, to a lot of people.
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- * Well, now we got married *
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- Johnny Cash and June Carter.
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Johnny and June.
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"Walk the Line"
was the fairy tale.
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- The movie is about
a period of time about this big
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in a life so large.
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- * And that's a fact *
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- It was probably gonna be
as much, if not more,
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of June involved
in the equation than John.
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And I'll get shot
and killed here
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in Nashville for saying that.
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- What would you like
to talk about?
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- It really doesn't matter.
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I thought you might ask me
where Johnny was.
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- Where is Johnny?
- He's not here, is he?
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[laughter]
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["Hello Stranger"]
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* Well, hello stranger *
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- If you only know
June Carter Cash,
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you're missing
a whole lot of things.
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- She was born
with one of the most
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famous names in country music.
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- A remarkable
show business career.
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- Well, June Carter
was an incredible artist
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in her own right.
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- She's one
of the most charming
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and talented women
in country music today.
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- A singer,
a comedienne, actress.
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- * Let a working man
lay down *
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* Yeah, I get a frown *
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- Who is June Carter Cash
to me?
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Well, she's a badass bitch,
first off.
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- You couldn't deny her.
she had that spark, the "it."
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You can't overdub the "it."
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- * But I see you *
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- But she's been married
so long to one man.
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- No, no.
I had two before him.
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I put all mine together,
and I'm still
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not nearly caught up with you.
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[laughter]
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- * When your troubles
are like mine *
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- There was so much
about my mother
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that may have been
misunderstood.
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- Underrated
and underappreciated.
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***
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- * So get up, rounder *
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- I think at the heart of it,
June's story hasn't been told.
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- Would you welcome
June Carter Cash?
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- June Carter Cash.
- June Carter Cash.
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- June Carter Cash.
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[cheers and applause]
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[birds chirping]
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- Hi.
- Everybody's here but Marty.
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- Oh, they are?
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Well, you might know
Marty'd be late.
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It's part of what he does.
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Once you get to be a big star,
you're really late.
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I'm late because of Johnny.
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- Good morning.
- Hi, Miss June.
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- Good morning.
- Hi.
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Lord, look at everybody.
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It feels like old times.
- It does.
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- It does, doesn't it?
How are you?
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[soft acoustic music]
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***
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- Well, here we are.
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- Hi, June.
- Come on in.
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I'm excited, everybody.
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I often wondered
how I'd ever do an album.
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And then I met
this really wonderful girl
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named Vicky Hamilton,
who was mostly
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in the world of rock and roll.
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- There was an urgency
that she wanted
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to make this record.
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So I had shopped it around
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to all
the major record companies,
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and everybody passed.
I, like, couldn't believe it.
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There's no way
we're putting out
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a record with a 70-year-old
woman, you know?
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- Four, five.
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- I was kind of incensed.
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This is, like,
country music royalty.
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How can you pass?
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So I decided, OK, I'm gonna
start my own record company
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and raise the money
to make this record.
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- I think I've changed
her whole life.
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So I'm hoping to make some
history again this morning.
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***
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- That day,
we just gathered around
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to sing the songs
of her family,
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my mom's family and things
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that she'd written down
through the years.
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- I was looking for some
other good Carter family songs
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to sing on this album,
and "Diamonds in the Rough"
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is probably one
of my favorites, Marty.
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So why don't you and I sing it?
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- You got it.
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["Diamonds in the Rough"]
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***
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- My mother
was like a kid again.
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She was eager.
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It was as if she was ready
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to go get on a roller coaster.
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- * The day will soon be over *
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* And the digging
will be done *
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* No more gems be gathered *
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* So let us all press on *
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- I don't think
I've ever really known
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a life that's any different
than show business.
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My mother was Maybelle Carter,
who was a part
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of the original Carter family.
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- This is my mama Maybelle,
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and then my aunt and my uncle,
Sara Carter, AP Carter.
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***
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* The diamonds
will be shining *
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* No longer in the rough *
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***
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- At the time
that my mother was born,
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Maybelle had been recording
for a couple of years
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with the
original Carter family.
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[The Carter Family's
"Wildwood Flower"]
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***
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- One day, we found a man
that wanted us
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to come up and make a record.
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So we went up to Bristol
and made our first record,
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and it's been going
ever since.
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* Oh,
I'll twine with my mingles *
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* And waving black hair *
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- The Carters, I mean,
they were the beginning.
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That was like the spontaneous
combustion of country music.
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And June traces
right into that.
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- They had
so many tunes that formed
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a basis for our country
and western music
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as we know it today.
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And when people didn't know
what kind of a melody to use,
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they just went back
and grabbed
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an old Carter family melody
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and hung on to that.
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- * I will dance *
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* I will sing *
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* And my love shall be gay *
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* I will charm every heart *
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* And in his crown,
I will sway *
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- I just thought everybody had
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a Mother Maybelle Carter
that picked
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a "Wildwood Flower"
on the guitar.
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I didn't really know
she was different.
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- Mother Maybelle was one
of the early
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female guitar players
that actually slayed at guitar.
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Like,
she could straight up play.
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[rapid guitar playing]
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***
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- My little fingers
were so calloused learning
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to play the "Wildwood Flower."
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That was one of the first songs
I think
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that most country kids--
boys or girls--
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you want to play.
You know...
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* I will dance, I will sing *
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* And I'll play
the wildwood flower *
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***
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- And my father was
instrumental in this, too--
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Ezra Carter.
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- Daddy was a wonderful
influence in our life.
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Daddy was a brilliant man.
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[engine revving]
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- She was very close to him.
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She'd ride
his motorcycle with him.
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She saw herself kind of
as a real rough and tumble
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little kid, holding onto Daddy
as he drove his motorcycle
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through that area.
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- I think probably the lesson
that my father taught,
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the most important one,
was that we be ourselves.
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You develop what you have.
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You do that as a person.
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* Don't be a dirty miner
like me *
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- When you grow up like that,
loving that place
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and knowing
that's who you are--
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when you just
become part of the woods
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and the bees and the birds,
and you're just
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a bunch of country little kids
running around
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and that's your place,
when you have to move away
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in order to do
what you need to do,
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you carry that with you.
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***
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- I'm sure you're enjoying
these good old songs
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as only the Carter Family
can sing them.
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Now here's the three
little Carter sisters,
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Helen, June, and Anita.
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And what's it gonna be?
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[together]
"In the Highway."
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- "In the Highway."
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- * In the highways,
in the hedges *
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- My sisters Helen and Anita
and I went with my mother
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to the Texas border stations.
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- [speaking Spanish]
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- That was the end
of the world away
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from southwestern Virginia.
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- Well, here's something
that's mighty good.
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And that's a solo by June.
What's it going to be, June?
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- I'm going to sing
"Engine 143."
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["Engine 143"]
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- * Along came the FFV *
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* The swiftest on the line *
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* Running o'er the C&O *
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- Well, we get
right on the stage,
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and mother Maybelle Carter,
I guarantee you,
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if she could hear us
out of tune,
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she would just pop up
and let us know about it.
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- You're on holy ground when
you're playing those songs.
258
00:11:15,675 --> 00:11:17,945
They'll live forever
and ever and ever.
259
00:11:18,011 --> 00:11:21,581
- Yeah, they do.
- But we're all family.
260
00:11:21,648 --> 00:11:24,151
- Oh, why don't we sing
that one that we just tried?
261
00:11:24,217 --> 00:11:26,586
- Which one was it?
262
00:11:26,653 --> 00:11:30,490
- * You have heard of
little Moses in the bulrush *
263
00:11:30,557 --> 00:11:34,594
* You have heard of fearless
David and his sling *
264
00:11:34,661 --> 00:11:39,299
* You have heard the story
told of dreaming Joseph *
265
00:11:39,366 --> 00:11:42,002
- Time for the Carter sisters
and Mother Maybelle...
266
00:11:42,069 --> 00:11:44,004
- We left those Texas
border stations,
267
00:11:44,071 --> 00:11:47,540
and we worked a lot of shows,
Helen and Anita and I,
268
00:11:47,607 --> 00:11:50,277
with my mother--
just the four of us.
269
00:11:50,343 --> 00:11:53,180
- They drove
for hours and hours
270
00:11:53,246 --> 00:11:56,149
and then did
four shows a day sometimes.
271
00:11:56,216 --> 00:12:00,553
And it was relentless
and sometimes brutal work.
272
00:12:00,620 --> 00:12:05,158
- * At that meeting
in the air *
273
00:12:05,225 --> 00:12:09,763
- * The meeting in the air *
274
00:12:09,830 --> 00:12:12,232
- Well, I hope you folks
liked that one there.
275
00:12:12,299 --> 00:12:13,633
I'm gonna give you
a little jolt, now.
276
00:12:13,700 --> 00:12:15,769
I'm gonna sing one
that's awful corny
277
00:12:15,836 --> 00:12:17,771
here for you.
It's gonna be loud.
278
00:12:17,838 --> 00:12:19,506
I reckon
I'm Mommy's loudest young'un,
279
00:12:19,572 --> 00:12:21,942
and that's all I can
figure out for myself here.
280
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***
281
00:12:25,112 --> 00:12:27,280
* Well, I might
have gone fishing *
282
00:12:27,347 --> 00:12:29,749
* I got to think it over *
283
00:12:29,817 --> 00:12:32,752
* The road to the river *
284
00:12:32,820 --> 00:12:34,321
* Is a mighty long way *
285
00:12:34,387 --> 00:12:35,856
- She was not
the greatest singer
286
00:12:35,923 --> 00:12:37,590
in the whole Carter family,
287
00:12:37,657 --> 00:12:41,094
but her personality
and her emotion
288
00:12:41,161 --> 00:12:43,063
made her part actually,
sometimes,
289
00:12:43,130 --> 00:12:45,198
even more interesting,
because she just
290
00:12:45,265 --> 00:12:46,800
would get in there
very much like I do
291
00:12:46,867 --> 00:12:50,103
and just sing right
from the gut and the heart.
292
00:12:50,170 --> 00:12:53,573
- Maybelle
just turned Mama loose
293
00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:56,376
and let her just be
as zany and crazy
294
00:12:56,443 --> 00:12:59,279
and a kid as she could be.
295
00:12:59,346 --> 00:13:02,049
It's like she would do
anything for a laugh.
296
00:13:02,115 --> 00:13:03,884
- I think I tried to be funny
when I couldn't think
297
00:13:03,951 --> 00:13:05,252
of what else to do.
298
00:13:05,318 --> 00:13:07,220
When you didn't know
what else to do,
299
00:13:07,287 --> 00:13:09,422
you just talked,
and so I rattled away,
300
00:13:09,489 --> 00:13:10,590
boogity, boogity, boogity.
301
00:13:10,657 --> 00:13:15,262
***
302
00:13:15,328 --> 00:13:18,165
[somber guitar music]
303
00:13:18,231 --> 00:13:20,100
- There was no way that June
304
00:13:20,167 --> 00:13:22,135
was not gonna be
front and center.
305
00:13:22,202 --> 00:13:23,904
It's hard for her
to stand still
306
00:13:23,971 --> 00:13:28,008
and not interject.
[laughs]
307
00:13:28,075 --> 00:13:35,215
***
308
00:13:36,884 --> 00:13:40,988
- We had come to Nashville,
and we got a call to appear.
309
00:13:41,054 --> 00:13:43,223
And so we went down and went
310
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to work at
"the Grand Ole Opry."
311
00:13:44,657 --> 00:13:46,459
***
312
00:13:46,526 --> 00:13:51,198
- * The Grand Ole Opry,
the Grand Ole Opry time *
313
00:13:51,264 --> 00:13:54,167
[upbeat country music]
314
00:13:54,234 --> 00:13:58,438
***
315
00:13:58,505 --> 00:14:01,174
- * Do-si-do,
don't let them go *
316
00:14:01,241 --> 00:14:02,943
- If you were
going to Nashville,
317
00:14:03,010 --> 00:14:05,345
your dream was to be
on "The Grand Ole Opry,"
318
00:14:05,412 --> 00:14:08,415
because everybody
all over the country
319
00:14:08,481 --> 00:14:10,217
listened to it
if you loved country music.
320
00:14:10,283 --> 00:14:13,921
***
321
00:14:13,987 --> 00:14:16,924
- We've got the girl here who
can put an awful lot of humor
322
00:14:16,990 --> 00:14:18,125
in any program.
323
00:14:18,191 --> 00:14:20,460
Let's make welcome
Miss June Carter.
324
00:14:20,527 --> 00:14:22,996
[cheers and applause]
325
00:14:23,063 --> 00:14:25,265
- I'm gonna sing
if I can swaller
326
00:14:25,332 --> 00:14:26,799
before I get started 'cause
327
00:14:26,866 --> 00:14:28,101
this song ain't got
no swallerin' place.
328
00:14:28,168 --> 00:14:29,336
- Let's try it.
329
00:14:29,402 --> 00:14:30,503
- * I got a song *
330
00:14:30,570 --> 00:14:32,139
* It's a pretty good song *
331
00:14:32,205 --> 00:14:34,007
* Only one thing wrong
with the pretty good song *
332
00:14:34,074 --> 00:14:35,542
* 'Cause a pretty good song
goes along and along *
333
00:14:35,608 --> 00:14:37,410
- Back in those days,
Saturday night,
334
00:14:37,477 --> 00:14:38,711
you'd turn on WSM Nashville
and listen
335
00:14:38,778 --> 00:14:40,147
to "The Grand Ole Opry."
336
00:14:40,213 --> 00:14:41,481
- * Get along and along
and along and along *
337
00:14:41,548 --> 00:14:43,616
* Gonna get me
red in the face *
338
00:14:43,683 --> 00:14:47,054
- June Carter was
an all-around entertainer.
339
00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:51,124
- * 'Cause it ain't got
no swallerin place *
340
00:14:51,191 --> 00:14:53,961
- June Carter, here we are.
341
00:14:54,027 --> 00:14:56,629
[cheers and applause]
342
00:14:56,696 --> 00:14:59,332
- [screams]
343
00:14:59,399 --> 00:15:02,435
- What did I do?
- What did you do?
344
00:15:02,502 --> 00:15:04,504
You can quit throwing
that there--
345
00:15:04,571 --> 00:15:07,107
- Well, if it ain't
June Carter.
346
00:15:07,174 --> 00:15:10,310
[applause]
347
00:15:12,245 --> 00:15:15,315
- Of all
the knot-headed people,
348
00:15:15,382 --> 00:15:18,285
you are the knotty-headed
of knot-headed--
349
00:15:18,351 --> 00:15:20,187
well, bless his heart.
350
00:15:20,253 --> 00:15:22,956
It's Carl, that's who it is.
351
00:15:23,023 --> 00:15:24,958
Hello, Carl.
- Hello, June.
352
00:15:25,025 --> 00:15:27,727
- How you doing, old buddy?
- Pretty doggone good.
353
00:15:27,794 --> 00:15:29,362
***
354
00:15:29,429 --> 00:15:33,900
* I thought I had seen
pretty girls in my time *
355
00:15:33,967 --> 00:15:39,439
* But that was
before I met you *
356
00:15:39,506 --> 00:15:42,209
* I never saw one that I *
357
00:15:42,275 --> 00:15:45,112
- Carl Smith
was the preeminent
358
00:15:45,178 --> 00:15:48,015
honky tonk singer of the day.
359
00:15:48,081 --> 00:15:51,451
- He was a hot hunk,
one of the handsomest men
360
00:15:51,518 --> 00:15:54,254
in country music.
361
00:15:54,321 --> 00:15:55,755
- I heard what you
was saying out here.
362
00:15:55,822 --> 00:15:57,490
- What'd I say?
- You said--
363
00:15:57,557 --> 00:15:59,159
- I didn't think you heard me.
364
00:15:59,226 --> 00:16:01,528
- You said
you knowed me quite well.
365
00:16:01,594 --> 00:16:03,363
I just want you to know,
Carl,
366
00:16:03,430 --> 00:16:05,098
that I know you
quite well, too.
367
00:16:05,165 --> 00:16:07,134
- Oh.
- And I don't like--
368
00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:09,302
I don't like what I know.
369
00:16:09,369 --> 00:16:11,738
[laughter]
370
00:16:11,804 --> 00:16:13,273
No, I didn't--
371
00:16:13,340 --> 00:16:15,275
- Hush, you're on television.
Look.
372
00:16:15,342 --> 00:16:19,012
[laughter]
373
00:16:19,079 --> 00:16:21,681
* April and spring
is in the air *
374
00:16:21,748 --> 00:16:25,752
- And June Carter
landed the star.
375
00:16:25,818 --> 00:16:27,620
***
376
00:16:27,687 --> 00:16:30,290
Of all the women
that wanted Carl,
377
00:16:30,357 --> 00:16:32,159
June is the one that got him.
378
00:16:32,225 --> 00:16:36,296
- * I saw a little mugwump
sitting in a tree *
379
00:16:36,363 --> 00:16:37,930
* Until he saw a female *
380
00:16:37,997 --> 00:16:39,899
- They were the storybook
romance of the "Opry."
381
00:16:39,966 --> 00:16:42,469
They were like,
oh, June Carter
382
00:16:42,535 --> 00:16:44,437
of the famous Carter family,
and Carl Smith,
383
00:16:44,504 --> 00:16:45,472
the biggest hit-maker
of the day.
384
00:16:45,538 --> 00:16:47,207
And you're like, "Wow."
385
00:16:47,274 --> 00:16:48,641
Perfect chemistry,
perfect timing,
386
00:16:48,708 --> 00:16:51,944
perfect everything--
they were, like, the couple.
387
00:16:52,011 --> 00:16:53,946
***
388
00:16:54,013 --> 00:16:57,317
- There was a lot of joy,
a lot of laughter.
389
00:16:57,384 --> 00:17:00,953
It sure had a beautiful outcome
with my sister Carlene.
390
00:17:01,020 --> 00:17:03,123
***
391
00:17:03,190 --> 00:17:05,023
- * I'd let you know, June *
392
00:17:05,092 --> 00:17:07,859
- See, Mama and Daddy looked
like they belonged together,
393
00:17:07,926 --> 00:17:12,499
too, because they had
a very similar sense of humor,
394
00:17:12,565 --> 00:17:14,834
and they got a kick
out of each other.
395
00:17:14,901 --> 00:17:16,903
- I'm kind of interested
in you, Carl Smith.
396
00:17:16,969 --> 00:17:19,239
You're quite a ladies man.
And I'm kind of--
397
00:17:19,306 --> 00:17:21,040
- Is that right?
Well, all right.
398
00:17:21,108 --> 00:17:23,009
[laughter]
399
00:17:23,076 --> 00:17:25,078
- I've got to--
400
00:17:25,145 --> 00:17:26,713
close your big mouth.
401
00:17:26,779 --> 00:17:28,047
Hey, no kidding.
I really am--
402
00:17:28,115 --> 00:17:30,917
- You close yours.
I'm liable to fall in.
403
00:17:30,983 --> 00:17:33,220
- Well, your big old ears
would hold you out.
404
00:17:33,286 --> 00:17:34,954
[laughter]
405
00:17:35,021 --> 00:17:38,591
***
406
00:17:38,658 --> 00:17:41,694
]cheers and applause]
407
00:17:41,761 --> 00:17:44,664
- I'm gonna do it,
and I just need you to know--
408
00:17:44,731 --> 00:17:47,567
- The character you did,
was it you? Or was it--
409
00:17:47,634 --> 00:17:49,869
- No, it wasn't me.
I created her.
410
00:17:49,936 --> 00:17:52,172
She would do almost anything
to get a laugh,
411
00:17:52,239 --> 00:17:55,708
and did, and I don't think
it was sincerely me.
412
00:17:55,775 --> 00:17:58,511
No, it's just
a crazy little girl I played.
413
00:17:58,578 --> 00:18:02,349
I just get up, and then
take the time to lay down.
414
00:18:02,415 --> 00:18:06,052
Life gets tedious, don't it?
415
00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:09,789
- Because she could
do it so well,
416
00:18:09,856 --> 00:18:11,624
people believed
that June Carter
417
00:18:11,691 --> 00:18:17,630
really was this uncouth hick.
418
00:18:17,697 --> 00:18:20,467
She made it seem effortless.
419
00:18:20,533 --> 00:18:23,936
It was not effortless.
420
00:18:24,003 --> 00:18:29,376
She had thick binders
that had jokes
421
00:18:29,442 --> 00:18:32,479
and songs and routines
422
00:18:32,545 --> 00:18:36,216
that she had honed
over decades.
423
00:18:36,283 --> 00:18:37,717
- Miss June Carter.
424
00:18:37,784 --> 00:18:40,753
[cheers and applause]
425
00:18:40,820 --> 00:18:44,924
- Nashville at the time
was stuck in this image
426
00:18:44,991 --> 00:18:48,995
of the little homemaker.
427
00:18:49,061 --> 00:18:52,765
The "Opry" was insistent
that women should dress
428
00:18:52,832 --> 00:18:55,168
in those kind of
gingham checks
429
00:18:55,235 --> 00:18:57,670
and be very conservative.
430
00:18:57,737 --> 00:18:59,806
- I'm getting
a cold in my nose.
431
00:18:59,872 --> 00:19:04,177
Life gets tedious, don't it?
432
00:19:04,244 --> 00:19:07,180
[applause]
433
00:19:12,285 --> 00:19:13,786
[light guitar music]
434
00:19:13,853 --> 00:19:15,255
- There was a difficult time
in my life
435
00:19:15,322 --> 00:19:18,024
and I wasn't very happy.
436
00:19:18,090 --> 00:19:22,362
It was during the time when
I was in my first marriage.
437
00:19:22,429 --> 00:19:25,465
I was married to Carl Smith.
438
00:19:25,532 --> 00:19:30,337
- My mother was working,
and she was going on the road.
439
00:19:30,403 --> 00:19:32,972
And I think that Carl
had a different vision
440
00:19:33,039 --> 00:19:36,943
of what a marriage was
than my mom did.
441
00:19:37,009 --> 00:19:41,013
- He wanted her to stay home
and be more of a mom,
442
00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:42,682
and she could still
go play the "Opry,"
443
00:19:42,749 --> 00:19:45,552
but he didn't think
she'd be out on the road.
444
00:19:45,618 --> 00:19:48,488
And Mama always said
that she was covered up
445
00:19:48,555 --> 00:19:50,723
with ambition,
that she was absolutely
446
00:19:50,790 --> 00:19:52,625
filled with ambition.
447
00:19:52,692 --> 00:19:55,862
She had all these things
she wanted to do.
448
00:19:55,928 --> 00:19:57,730
I think she wanted to be--
449
00:19:57,797 --> 00:19:59,632
I think she just wanted
to be a superstar.
450
00:19:59,699 --> 00:20:02,802
***
451
00:20:02,869 --> 00:20:06,406
- I detected a little sarcasm
in that voice
452
00:20:06,473 --> 00:20:07,740
when I heard you
putting me on.
453
00:20:07,807 --> 00:20:09,376
I said, "What's the matter
with you, anyway?"
454
00:20:09,442 --> 00:20:11,010
- Well, you know what
you've done to me, don't you?
455
00:20:11,077 --> 00:20:12,512
- I don't know
what you're talking about.
456
00:20:12,579 --> 00:20:14,046
Do you mean this morning?
- Tell 'em what you done to me.
457
00:20:14,113 --> 00:20:15,615
- I was helping you, Carl.
I haven't--
458
00:20:15,682 --> 00:20:16,616
- Yeah, you was helping me.
459
00:20:16,683 --> 00:20:18,084
Tell them what you done.
460
00:20:18,150 --> 00:20:20,186
- I was just
helping you, old buddy.
461
00:20:20,253 --> 00:20:21,621
You was in bad shape,
462
00:20:21,688 --> 00:20:23,523
and I was just giving you
a little, well--
463
00:20:23,590 --> 00:20:25,558
I tell you what.
I tell you what.
464
00:20:25,625 --> 00:20:28,528
He had a bad cold in his head.
- Yeah.
465
00:20:28,595 --> 00:20:32,765
- It's not something that you
really did in the mid-1950s.
466
00:20:32,832 --> 00:20:36,569
You really
didn't get divorced.
467
00:20:36,636 --> 00:20:39,872
But by 1955,
468
00:20:39,939 --> 00:20:42,174
and we're talking
less than three years,
469
00:20:42,241 --> 00:20:43,810
they've already decided
they're going
470
00:20:43,876 --> 00:20:45,412
their separate ways...
- Right, I--
471
00:20:45,478 --> 00:20:47,514
- You may be a good old girl,
but you don't look too good.
472
00:20:47,580 --> 00:20:49,682
- Oh, is that right?
- No, you don't.
473
00:20:49,749 --> 00:20:51,250
You ought to put some lipstick
on and bring your lips--
474
00:20:51,318 --> 00:20:53,520
- But they
still worked together...
475
00:20:53,586 --> 00:20:55,121
- Around your eyes...
476
00:20:55,187 --> 00:20:58,057
- Where June and Carl
are on stage doing banter...
477
00:20:58,124 --> 00:21:00,026
- Bring your hair out
a little, you know?
478
00:21:00,092 --> 00:21:02,362
- Well, why don't you try
to sneeze and nod your head
479
00:21:02,429 --> 00:21:04,364
and bring
your teeth out a little?
480
00:21:04,431 --> 00:21:05,632
[laughter]
481
00:21:05,698 --> 00:21:07,099
I like that ol' Carl Smith.
482
00:21:07,166 --> 00:21:09,436
I got his picture at home.
Yeah, I just--
483
00:21:09,502 --> 00:21:13,373
- About all that's left.
[laughter]
484
00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:18,345
- You are--whee!
485
00:21:18,411 --> 00:21:20,279
You wouldn't know, honey.
486
00:21:20,347 --> 00:21:24,617
You ain't been there
in a long enough time to see.
487
00:21:24,684 --> 00:21:29,722
- Her divorce from Carl Smith
was a scandal.
488
00:21:29,789 --> 00:21:32,058
Nowadays,
nobody would bat an eye.
489
00:21:32,124 --> 00:21:34,694
But back then, it was a thing.
- I'll see you, old knothead.
490
00:21:34,761 --> 00:21:36,963
- In the conservative
Nashville,
491
00:21:37,029 --> 00:21:39,632
she still bore
a scarlet letter.
492
00:21:39,699 --> 00:21:41,901
You were like used goods.
493
00:21:41,968 --> 00:21:43,570
["He Don't Love Me Anymore"]
494
00:21:43,636 --> 00:21:49,776
- * He don't love me anymore *
495
00:21:49,842 --> 00:21:53,880
* My eyes
are filled with tears *
496
00:21:53,946 --> 00:21:57,049
- I think that she had
an existential crisis.
497
00:21:57,116 --> 00:22:01,020
I think that the divorce
put her in a tailspin.
498
00:22:01,087 --> 00:22:06,325
- * Tell me
where I go from here *
499
00:22:06,393 --> 00:22:08,194
- She didn't think
that anybody was ever
500
00:22:08,260 --> 00:22:11,097
gonna love her
who, at the same time,
501
00:22:11,163 --> 00:22:14,767
would let her just be able
to do what she wanted to do,
502
00:22:14,834 --> 00:22:16,803
because she just
couldn't give it up.
503
00:22:16,869 --> 00:22:20,072
***
504
00:22:20,139 --> 00:22:22,141
- * And it's hard to *
505
00:22:22,208 --> 00:22:24,176
- Later on in his life,
right before he passed away,
506
00:22:24,243 --> 00:22:26,212
I said, "So what happened
with you and Mom?"
507
00:22:26,278 --> 00:22:29,215
Mom always says
she loved you so deeply
508
00:22:29,281 --> 00:22:32,118
and was so heartbroken.
- * Spring is in the air *
509
00:22:32,184 --> 00:22:34,954
- And Daddy says,
"Your mama never loved me."
510
00:22:35,021 --> 00:22:37,223
And I said, "What?"
511
00:22:37,289 --> 00:22:40,126
And he said,
"She loved the idea of me."
512
00:22:40,192 --> 00:22:44,030
And I kind of understood that
to a certain degree.
513
00:22:44,096 --> 00:22:47,266
The idea of him was,
her idea was that
514
00:22:47,333 --> 00:22:50,970
they would just keep doing
what they were doing.
515
00:22:51,037 --> 00:22:54,306
[bright acoustic music]
516
00:22:54,373 --> 00:22:55,942
***
517
00:22:56,008 --> 00:22:58,310
- All right, you all sound
like you're really honking.
518
00:22:58,377 --> 00:22:59,979
- Sounds great.
519
00:23:00,046 --> 00:23:02,181
- Yeah, you're just pressing
right along.
520
00:23:02,248 --> 00:23:04,651
***
521
00:23:04,717 --> 00:23:06,052
- There it goes.
522
00:23:06,118 --> 00:23:07,353
- Just let me know
when you're ready.
523
00:23:07,420 --> 00:23:09,422
- OK, John Carter.
524
00:23:09,489 --> 00:23:11,190
- OK.
525
00:23:11,257 --> 00:23:13,460
- This song explains itself
in a way because
526
00:23:13,526 --> 00:23:17,229
I look back on the days when
I was living in New York City,
527
00:23:17,296 --> 00:23:19,265
and for a while in my life,
I was part of
528
00:23:19,331 --> 00:23:20,900
the rock and roll bunch,
529
00:23:20,967 --> 00:23:23,470
so this goes back
to those years.
530
00:23:23,536 --> 00:23:25,738
OK, here we go.
531
00:23:25,805 --> 00:23:28,407
- * Well, the place
was New York City *
532
00:23:28,475 --> 00:23:31,678
* And the hour
was growing late *
533
00:23:31,744 --> 00:23:34,547
* Had walked from streets
in Harlem *
534
00:23:34,614 --> 00:23:37,517
* To the
Greenwich Village gate *
535
00:23:37,584 --> 00:23:40,186
* We were young and foolish *
536
00:23:40,252 --> 00:23:43,089
* And trying out for fame *
537
00:23:43,155 --> 00:23:44,423
- This was the time
in her life
538
00:23:44,491 --> 00:23:46,559
when she was
absolutely heartbroken.
539
00:23:46,626 --> 00:23:49,762
- She was sort of asserting
her independence.
540
00:23:49,829 --> 00:23:51,297
You know,
like she always said,
541
00:23:51,363 --> 00:23:53,065
she wasn't the best singer
or the best player,
542
00:23:53,132 --> 00:23:56,168
but she had something,
and she needed to find that,
543
00:23:56,235 --> 00:23:59,572
and I think that that was
partly why she ran away.
544
00:23:59,639 --> 00:24:01,040
She went to New York.
545
00:24:01,107 --> 00:24:02,875
- * Well, I used
to be somebody, Lord *
546
00:24:02,942 --> 00:24:06,412
* I used to have a friend *
547
00:24:06,479 --> 00:24:09,649
* I'd like
to be somebody again *
548
00:24:09,716 --> 00:24:12,318
- And so I went to New York.
549
00:24:12,384 --> 00:24:14,487
And I just took my little girl
and went to New York,
550
00:24:14,554 --> 00:24:17,524
took Carlene with me,
and moved into an apartment,
551
00:24:17,590 --> 00:24:19,826
and I studied there.
552
00:24:19,892 --> 00:24:22,795
- June and my sister Rosemary
553
00:24:22,862 --> 00:24:25,097
were studying
with Sandy Meisner
554
00:24:25,164 --> 00:24:28,535
at the Neighborhood Playhouse.
555
00:24:28,601 --> 00:24:30,637
She wanted to be an actress.
556
00:24:30,703 --> 00:24:34,874
And the greatest teacher
of all was Sandy Meisner.
557
00:24:34,941 --> 00:24:36,909
- If you think about it,
558
00:24:36,976 --> 00:24:40,079
women just didn't do that
at the time.
559
00:24:40,146 --> 00:24:42,448
Being this person on the road
who lived this life,
560
00:24:42,515 --> 00:24:44,717
that was very unorthodox,
especially for women
561
00:24:44,784 --> 00:24:47,119
at that time who had children.
562
00:24:47,186 --> 00:24:50,523
- It was almost impossible,
563
00:24:50,590 --> 00:24:52,525
but June did it.
564
00:24:52,592 --> 00:24:55,161
***
565
00:24:55,227 --> 00:24:59,198
She had this dual role
that she was playing.
566
00:24:59,265 --> 00:25:02,635
She was still coming home
on the weekends
567
00:25:02,702 --> 00:25:07,306
to work on the "Opry"
on Saturday nights,
568
00:25:07,373 --> 00:25:10,677
and she would leave on Sunday
and go to New York City
569
00:25:10,743 --> 00:25:14,847
and study all week,
and then come back home.
570
00:25:14,914 --> 00:25:16,583
- She was flying
back and forth
571
00:25:16,649 --> 00:25:18,384
on propeller planes, people.
572
00:25:18,450 --> 00:25:19,619
There were no jets.
573
00:25:19,686 --> 00:25:21,487
***
574
00:25:21,554 --> 00:25:25,424
- And she was also
working constantly then,
575
00:25:25,491 --> 00:25:28,194
filming television shows.
576
00:25:28,260 --> 00:25:31,864
- I did several shows
back during that time.
577
00:25:31,931 --> 00:25:33,465
- Well, there's $100 in there.
578
00:25:33,532 --> 00:25:35,234
I want you to take it
down to the jail
579
00:25:35,301 --> 00:25:37,269
and see what you can do
for the Countess.
580
00:25:37,336 --> 00:25:38,805
- I worked wherever I could.
581
00:25:38,871 --> 00:25:40,607
I just picked up
what parts I could.
582
00:25:40,673 --> 00:25:41,808
- I'll kill him!
583
00:25:41,874 --> 00:25:42,742
You hear me, Kate?
I'll kill him!
584
00:25:42,809 --> 00:25:44,043
- I heard you.
585
00:25:44,110 --> 00:25:45,311
- She got on an episode
of "Gunsmoke."
586
00:25:45,377 --> 00:25:46,579
- Arkansas River.
587
00:25:46,646 --> 00:25:49,415
- That big whiskey-guzzling
no-good nothing.
588
00:25:49,481 --> 00:25:52,985
I hope I die just so
he'll hang for what he done.
589
00:25:53,052 --> 00:25:55,021
- She's the dance hall girl,
590
00:25:55,087 --> 00:25:57,089
and she goes,
"He shot me, Marshal Dillon!"
591
00:25:57,156 --> 00:25:59,726
[laughs]
592
00:25:59,792 --> 00:26:03,129
- * When I held the rose
that he gave me *
593
00:26:03,195 --> 00:26:06,165
- She loved it.
It was the time of her life.
594
00:26:06,232 --> 00:26:08,300
I mean,
she met a lot of people.
595
00:26:08,367 --> 00:26:12,972
- Jimmy Dean, Brando.
- Tennessee Williams.
596
00:26:13,039 --> 00:26:15,007
- She was also
traveling back and forth
597
00:26:15,074 --> 00:26:16,943
opening for Elvis at the time.
598
00:26:17,009 --> 00:26:20,212
[cheers and applause]
599
00:26:20,279 --> 00:26:23,783
- My mom would always
get a twinkle in her eye
600
00:26:23,850 --> 00:26:25,417
when she talked about Elvis.
601
00:26:25,484 --> 00:26:27,586
- You were a friend
of Elvis Presley's.
602
00:26:27,654 --> 00:26:29,822
- Yes.
- Were you--
603
00:26:29,889 --> 00:26:33,225
- [laughs]
[coughs]
604
00:26:33,292 --> 00:26:34,727
- That's all I mean.
- Oh, boy.
605
00:26:34,794 --> 00:26:37,463
- I didn't know.
606
00:26:37,529 --> 00:26:40,199
- Yes, we were friends,
a long time ago.
607
00:26:40,266 --> 00:26:42,134
- Yeah, many times, I said,
608
00:26:42,201 --> 00:26:44,837
"Mama, come on, tell me.
609
00:26:44,904 --> 00:26:46,605
You slept with Elvis, right?"
610
00:26:46,673 --> 00:26:48,307
[laughs]
611
00:26:48,374 --> 00:26:52,011
She would giggle
and she would blush a little,
612
00:26:52,078 --> 00:26:55,247
but she said, "No, Elvis
was just a nice young man
613
00:26:55,314 --> 00:26:58,384
when I knew him."
[laughs]
614
00:26:58,450 --> 00:27:02,188
- A lot of women
loved Elvis Presley.
615
00:27:02,254 --> 00:27:04,757
* Well, I went
with Elvis Presley
616
00:27:04,824 --> 00:27:07,093
to see Brando from afar *
617
00:27:07,159 --> 00:27:08,795
- She told me
that during that time,
618
00:27:08,861 --> 00:27:11,497
Elvis knew Mama
was heartbroken,
619
00:27:11,563 --> 00:27:14,366
and so he would come
to New York,
620
00:27:14,433 --> 00:27:17,236
and he was apparently
pushing me around
621
00:27:17,303 --> 00:27:20,807
Central Park
in a baby carriage.
622
00:27:20,873 --> 00:27:24,110
- My Mama had a sheet music
that she had on the road.
623
00:27:24,176 --> 00:27:26,112
It was Carl Smith's
sheet music,
624
00:27:26,178 --> 00:27:28,580
and Elvis put a mustache
on him and said,
625
00:27:28,647 --> 00:27:30,817
"Painting by Presley,"
and signed it.
626
00:27:30,883 --> 00:27:35,221
And my mother tucked
that away all those years.
627
00:27:35,287 --> 00:27:39,491
- * That was back
in my rock and roll years *
628
00:27:39,558 --> 00:27:42,294
- I think that was
when she was emerging
629
00:27:42,361 --> 00:27:45,264
as a person on her own,
630
00:27:45,331 --> 00:27:48,801
and she was just
becoming someone.
631
00:27:48,868 --> 00:27:51,403
And all of these people
were also
632
00:27:51,470 --> 00:27:54,406
just becoming someone.
She was one of them.
633
00:27:54,473 --> 00:27:59,011
She was accepted
as an actress, as a singer.
634
00:27:59,078 --> 00:28:01,347
She was June Carter,
635
00:28:01,413 --> 00:28:03,816
and she was making it
on her own.
636
00:28:03,883 --> 00:28:05,852
- * Again *
637
00:28:05,918 --> 00:28:08,654
* I used to be somebody *
638
00:28:08,721 --> 00:28:11,791
* Good Lord,
where have I been *
639
00:28:11,858 --> 00:28:16,028
* I ain't never
gonna see Elvis again *
640
00:28:16,095 --> 00:28:19,465
***
641
00:28:19,531 --> 00:28:22,201
- She came that close.
She was there.
642
00:28:22,268 --> 00:28:23,702
She was on the cusp.
643
00:28:23,770 --> 00:28:27,106
She was standing
at the Greenwich Village gate.
644
00:28:27,173 --> 00:28:31,310
[soft dramatic music]
645
00:28:31,377 --> 00:28:33,880
And then it slipped away.
646
00:28:33,946 --> 00:28:36,816
[bombastic orchestral music]
647
00:28:36,883 --> 00:28:43,823
***
648
00:28:43,890 --> 00:28:47,393
- And here he is again to sing
our closing inspirational,
649
00:28:47,459 --> 00:28:51,297
the Tennessee Warbler.
650
00:28:51,363 --> 00:28:53,766
- Thank you.
- You know, your life changes.
651
00:28:53,833 --> 00:28:55,634
You take a different course.
652
00:28:55,701 --> 00:28:58,170
- You know, Vernon,
I got a lot of hand-holding
653
00:28:58,237 --> 00:29:00,506
to make up for.
654
00:29:00,572 --> 00:29:04,343
- I don't think she ever
gave up her ambition.
655
00:29:04,410 --> 00:29:09,748
I think life enters,
intervened.
656
00:29:09,816 --> 00:29:11,750
- She came home one weekend,
657
00:29:11,818 --> 00:29:15,621
if you will,
and found herself pregnant,
658
00:29:15,687 --> 00:29:18,590
and that was the end
of her movie career.
659
00:29:18,657 --> 00:29:24,396
***
660
00:29:24,463 --> 00:29:26,632
- So I called him Daddy Rip,
661
00:29:26,698 --> 00:29:30,502
and he was the daddy
of my little sister, Rosie.
662
00:29:30,569 --> 00:29:33,840
- June and Rip Nicks
were married
663
00:29:33,906 --> 00:29:36,308
very, very quickly.
664
00:29:36,375 --> 00:29:40,412
- He had nothing
to do with show business.
665
00:29:40,479 --> 00:29:42,815
- He raced speedboats.
666
00:29:42,882 --> 00:29:44,616
His daddy owned a garage,
667
00:29:44,683 --> 00:29:48,120
so he was always, like,
building motors and hot rods,
668
00:29:48,187 --> 00:29:50,589
and he wanted to go fast.
669
00:29:50,656 --> 00:29:52,491
***
670
00:29:52,558 --> 00:29:54,961
- And now she had
two daughters,
671
00:29:55,027 --> 00:29:58,898
both of whom were
under three years old,
672
00:29:58,965 --> 00:30:02,201
and so something had to give.
673
00:30:02,268 --> 00:30:05,171
[soft acoustic music]
674
00:30:05,237 --> 00:30:08,908
***
675
00:30:08,975 --> 00:30:11,243
- Come on, Rose.
676
00:30:11,310 --> 00:30:12,511
- I'll go sit down.
677
00:30:12,578 --> 00:30:15,014
- Your whole
singing bunch is today.
678
00:30:15,081 --> 00:30:17,616
- Go, do it.
679
00:30:17,683 --> 00:30:19,886
- OK, I'm gonna talk
a little bit.
680
00:30:19,952 --> 00:30:21,921
Ready.
- You're kidding.
681
00:30:21,988 --> 00:30:25,457
- No.
[laughter]
682
00:30:25,524 --> 00:30:27,860
- Rosie and I
wrote this song together,
683
00:30:27,927 --> 00:30:29,428
and this is my daughter Rosie.
684
00:30:29,495 --> 00:30:31,330
It's a tough story
after you've been living
685
00:30:31,397 --> 00:30:33,699
in New York a long time,
and you're just worn out.
686
00:30:33,765 --> 00:30:36,635
OK, babies, here we go.
Thump, thump, thump.
687
00:30:36,702 --> 00:30:39,972
- [laughs]
688
00:30:40,039 --> 00:30:41,941
- Come on, thumper.
689
00:30:42,008 --> 00:30:43,842
["Gatsby's Restaurant"]
690
00:30:43,910 --> 00:30:46,312
* I got tired
of New York City *
691
00:30:46,378 --> 00:30:48,847
* With its sidewalk
and its heat *
692
00:30:48,915 --> 00:30:51,517
* So I got myself
a great big horse *
693
00:30:51,583 --> 00:30:53,719
* And I rode him
down the street *
694
00:30:53,785 --> 00:30:57,990
* And then I hollered,
hi, ho, Silver *
695
00:30:58,057 --> 00:31:00,092
* And get 'em up, scout *
696
00:31:00,159 --> 00:31:02,094
I think it was about 1956.
697
00:31:02,161 --> 00:31:03,662
[applause]
698
00:31:03,729 --> 00:31:06,132
I was just coming home
on the weekends
699
00:31:06,198 --> 00:31:08,968
to do that "Grand Ole Opry"
on Saturday nights.
700
00:31:09,035 --> 00:31:10,369
- June Carter
and Garden Perry.
701
00:31:10,436 --> 00:31:11,670
- I was backstage.
702
00:31:11,737 --> 00:31:13,973
I was just coming
across backstage,
703
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:18,810
and this big, tall guy stops me
704
00:31:18,877 --> 00:31:21,948
and said,
"Hello, I'm Johnny Cash."
705
00:31:22,014 --> 00:31:23,815
- Hello, I'm Johnny Cash.
706
00:31:23,882 --> 00:31:26,418
***
707
00:31:26,485 --> 00:31:29,755
- And I knew
who Johnny Cash was.
708
00:31:29,821 --> 00:31:32,424
I'd had listened
to Johnny Cash a lot
709
00:31:32,491 --> 00:31:34,893
for the past two
or three months before that
710
00:31:34,961 --> 00:31:37,863
because I had been traveling
with Elvis Presley,
711
00:31:37,930 --> 00:31:40,332
and Elvis was
a real Johnny Cash nut.
712
00:31:40,399 --> 00:31:44,303
He would always play John
on the jukebox.
713
00:31:44,370 --> 00:31:46,738
He liked the song,
"Cry, Cry, Cry."
714
00:31:46,805 --> 00:31:48,540
"Cry, Cry, Cry,"
was one that Elvis
715
00:31:48,607 --> 00:31:50,142
used to tune his guitar by.
716
00:31:50,209 --> 00:31:51,577
Or I would tune Elvis's guitar
717
00:31:51,643 --> 00:31:53,045
when he would
break the strings.
718
00:31:53,112 --> 00:31:54,947
Only way he could tune
his guitar would go...
719
00:31:55,014 --> 00:31:59,218
* Everybody knows where you go
when the sun goes down *
720
00:31:59,285 --> 00:32:01,587
And Elvis would try
to get the tune that way.
721
00:32:01,653 --> 00:32:03,755
So he told me an awful lot
about Johnny Cash,
722
00:32:03,822 --> 00:32:05,724
and I kept saying,
"If I ever meet this fella,
723
00:32:05,791 --> 00:32:07,259
"I want to see
what he looks like.
724
00:32:07,326 --> 00:32:08,995
What does he look like?"
725
00:32:09,061 --> 00:32:11,897
Well, he did walk up to me
backstage and just said that.
726
00:32:11,964 --> 00:32:13,165
And I said,
"Well, I'm June Carter."
727
00:32:13,232 --> 00:32:14,466
And he said, "I know.
728
00:32:14,533 --> 00:32:17,269
You know, I know who you are."
729
00:32:17,336 --> 00:32:19,671
- I met her in '56.
730
00:32:19,738 --> 00:32:21,440
She was a performer
on "The Grand Ole Opry"
731
00:32:21,507 --> 00:32:22,774
at the time,
and I was doing
732
00:32:22,841 --> 00:32:25,677
my first
guest appearance there.
733
00:32:25,744 --> 00:32:28,580
- He told me that I was
his favorite entertainer
734
00:32:28,647 --> 00:32:32,184
at that time from the show.
735
00:32:32,251 --> 00:32:34,753
- You have to put yourself
in Johnny Cash's shoes.
736
00:32:34,820 --> 00:32:37,589
I mean,
he was a very, very poor
737
00:32:37,656 --> 00:32:40,892
son of the soil from Arkansas,
738
00:32:40,959 --> 00:32:44,763
and he has grown up
hearing June on his radio.
739
00:32:44,830 --> 00:32:47,499
- * Running o'er
the C&O road *
740
00:32:47,566 --> 00:32:50,036
- She's been performing
since she was six years old.
741
00:32:50,102 --> 00:32:52,238
She was with him
down on those Mexican stations
742
00:32:52,304 --> 00:32:53,805
when she was a little girl.
743
00:32:53,872 --> 00:32:57,209
- * I saw
through his disguise *
744
00:32:57,276 --> 00:32:59,078
* When I looked into his eyes *
745
00:32:59,145 --> 00:33:00,912
- I remember
on my senior trip in 1950,
746
00:33:00,979 --> 00:33:02,814
we went to
"The Grand Ole Opry,"
747
00:33:02,881 --> 00:33:04,816
and I was sitting
way up in the balcony,
748
00:33:04,883 --> 00:33:06,685
and there was June Carter
down on the stage,
749
00:33:06,752 --> 00:33:08,387
and I said,
"One of these days,
750
00:33:08,454 --> 00:33:11,457
I'm gonna get her autograph."
751
00:33:11,523 --> 00:33:14,826
***
752
00:33:14,893 --> 00:33:16,462
- This feller's good-looking,
isn't he?
753
00:33:16,528 --> 00:33:17,829
- Oh, he's handsome.
754
00:33:17,896 --> 00:33:20,066
- And I imagine
he sings pretty good, too.
755
00:33:20,132 --> 00:33:22,834
- So good that he's one
of the biggest new stars
756
00:33:22,901 --> 00:33:24,236
in country music today.
- Is that so?
757
00:33:24,303 --> 00:33:25,671
- Yes, sir.
758
00:33:25,737 --> 00:33:27,473
Come on over and meet him,
Johnny Cash.
759
00:33:27,539 --> 00:33:30,442
["So Doggone Lonesome"]
760
00:33:30,509 --> 00:33:32,644
***
761
00:33:32,711 --> 00:33:36,215
- * Time stands still
when you're waiting *
762
00:33:36,282 --> 00:33:38,584
* Sometimes I think
my heart is stopping, too *
763
00:33:38,650 --> 00:33:40,819
- At that time, our life
took us somewhere else.
764
00:33:40,886 --> 00:33:43,355
- * One lonely hour
seems forever *
765
00:33:43,422 --> 00:33:44,923
- I was living in Memphis,
766
00:33:44,990 --> 00:33:48,427
and I just didn't see her
for about five more years.
767
00:33:48,494 --> 00:33:51,497
* But I guess I'll keep
waiting till you're with me *
768
00:33:51,563 --> 00:33:54,566
- He went his direction,
and I went mine.
769
00:33:54,633 --> 00:33:56,868
- * So doggone lonesome *
770
00:33:56,935 --> 00:33:58,637
- How about that?
771
00:33:58,704 --> 00:34:02,641
- By the late '50s,
her options are not
772
00:34:02,708 --> 00:34:06,678
as wide open
as they may have been
773
00:34:06,745 --> 00:34:09,148
just a couple of years before.
774
00:34:09,215 --> 00:34:10,516
[soft acoustic music]
775
00:34:10,581 --> 00:34:13,885
She's got the girls.
776
00:34:13,952 --> 00:34:16,554
- Now, Mom worked.
777
00:34:16,621 --> 00:34:19,391
And my step-daddy Rip
did not always have
778
00:34:19,458 --> 00:34:21,159
a 9:00 to 5:00 job.
779
00:34:21,226 --> 00:34:23,562
She used to write commercials
for the "Opry"
780
00:34:23,629 --> 00:34:24,996
to make extra money.
781
00:34:25,063 --> 00:34:27,065
She'd say to me and Rosie,
she'd say,
782
00:34:27,132 --> 00:34:28,333
"You listen tonight,
783
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:29,935
"Because that
little commercial
784
00:34:30,001 --> 00:34:32,338
"I wrote and made
50 extra dollars,
785
00:34:32,404 --> 00:34:34,440
it's gonna be
on there tonight."
786
00:34:34,505 --> 00:34:36,074
- June Carter, Junebug.
787
00:34:36,141 --> 00:34:38,076
- I'd like to sing
old Carter family songs
788
00:34:38,143 --> 00:34:40,011
because I think
I know them a little better.
789
00:34:40,078 --> 00:34:41,713
- She always said,
used to say to me, she'd say,
790
00:34:41,780 --> 00:34:44,815
"Money ain't everything,
but it sure as hell helps."
791
00:34:44,882 --> 00:34:48,920
- June was working
opening drugstores.
792
00:34:48,987 --> 00:34:52,224
June was playing
in the milk aisle
793
00:34:52,291 --> 00:34:54,126
of the grocery store.
794
00:34:54,193 --> 00:34:57,929
- * If I was on
some foggy mountain top *
795
00:34:57,996 --> 00:35:00,031
* I'd sail away to the West *
796
00:35:00,098 --> 00:35:05,437
- She became known
as somebody who was reliable,
797
00:35:05,504 --> 00:35:08,474
and when they would need
the girl singer,
798
00:35:08,540 --> 00:35:10,542
that was always
what the promoters
799
00:35:10,609 --> 00:35:13,044
were looking for--
the girl singer.
800
00:35:13,111 --> 00:35:15,781
- * He's caused me
to leave my home *
801
00:35:15,847 --> 00:35:18,116
- That's where June came in.
802
00:35:18,184 --> 00:35:20,752
- * Oh, the lonesome pines
and good old times *
803
00:35:20,819 --> 00:35:23,955
* I'm on my way back home *
804
00:35:24,022 --> 00:35:27,359
* If I was
on some old mountaintop *
805
00:35:27,426 --> 00:35:29,495
- So just as it happened...
806
00:35:29,561 --> 00:35:31,830
- Johnny Cash
& The Tennessee Two!
807
00:35:31,897 --> 00:35:35,334
- Johnny Cash had an opening.
808
00:35:35,401 --> 00:35:37,836
[country music]
809
00:35:37,903 --> 00:35:41,607
- Got invited to go
on a thing with him.
810
00:35:41,673 --> 00:35:44,310
First, I think
it was Dallas, Texas.
811
00:35:44,376 --> 00:35:46,478
- June Carter.
812
00:35:46,545 --> 00:35:49,448
[bright acoustic music]
813
00:35:49,515 --> 00:35:51,183
***
814
00:35:51,250 --> 00:35:54,152
- And there was a magic when
they got on stage together.
815
00:35:54,220 --> 00:35:56,222
There was something
that was unique that happened.
816
00:35:56,288 --> 00:35:57,756
- Thank you very much.
817
00:35:57,823 --> 00:36:00,526
Right now, we'd like
to bring out the flower
818
00:36:00,592 --> 00:36:03,128
of Clinch Mountain,
Miss June Carter.
819
00:36:03,195 --> 00:36:06,532
Come here, June.
Hi.
820
00:36:06,598 --> 00:36:08,400
Hey, will you do
a song for us?
821
00:36:08,467 --> 00:36:11,203
- So when they got to doing
more and more dates together,
822
00:36:11,270 --> 00:36:14,906
John offered her a job
as to be in his band.
823
00:36:14,973 --> 00:36:20,446
- Goes, "Love is just
a thing of beauty,
824
00:36:20,512 --> 00:36:23,449
and beauty is a blossom."
825
00:36:23,515 --> 00:36:24,816
- If you want
to get your finger bit,
826
00:36:24,883 --> 00:36:27,553
poke it at a possum.
- No.
827
00:36:27,619 --> 00:36:29,921
- Sing one.
828
00:36:29,988 --> 00:36:31,957
* Well, it takes
a worried man *
829
00:36:32,023 --> 00:36:33,992
* To sing a worried song *
830
00:36:34,059 --> 00:36:36,328
* It takes a worried man *
831
00:36:36,395 --> 00:36:38,397
* To sing a worried song *
832
00:36:38,464 --> 00:36:42,501
- By the time Johnny
puts together his road show,
833
00:36:42,568 --> 00:36:43,835
he's a superstar.
- Hi, folks.
834
00:36:43,902 --> 00:36:45,371
This is Johnny Cash.
835
00:36:45,437 --> 00:36:46,305
And we're gonna tear
the place up.
836
00:36:46,372 --> 00:36:47,839
Y'all stick around late.
837
00:36:47,906 --> 00:36:50,376
* And I lay down to sleep *
838
00:36:50,442 --> 00:36:53,712
- He's this man in black,
this iconic figure
839
00:36:53,779 --> 00:36:56,047
who commanded a stage.
840
00:36:56,114 --> 00:36:58,584
- * I had shackles
on my feet *
841
00:36:58,650 --> 00:37:02,854
- When Johnny Cash came out,
he just had that magnetism.
842
00:37:02,921 --> 00:37:05,023
It was--I don't know.
843
00:37:05,090 --> 00:37:07,192
There was just
some kind of a magic.
844
00:37:07,259 --> 00:37:09,961
- * People gonna
stoop and bow *
845
00:37:10,028 --> 00:37:14,566
* All 'em women
gonna make me *
846
00:37:14,633 --> 00:37:17,436
* Teach 'em
what they don't know how *
847
00:37:17,503 --> 00:37:19,605
* I'm going to Jackson *
848
00:37:19,671 --> 00:37:21,640
- It just got to me, you know?
849
00:37:21,707 --> 00:37:24,776
And I got
the biggest crush on him.
850
00:37:24,843 --> 00:37:26,177
You would not believe it.
851
00:37:26,244 --> 00:37:28,113
I even thought about him
when I was at home,
852
00:37:28,179 --> 00:37:31,350
and you know, when I was
in sleeping or whatever,
853
00:37:31,417 --> 00:37:33,619
I'd think about Johnny Cash.
854
00:37:33,685 --> 00:37:35,587
- * Yeah,
I'm going to Jackson *
855
00:37:35,654 --> 00:37:37,423
- His name is Johnny Cash.
856
00:37:37,489 --> 00:37:39,425
He and June Carter,
they've been touring
857
00:37:39,491 --> 00:37:42,961
around the world.
- Oh, she's very good, Pete.
858
00:37:43,028 --> 00:37:46,498
Very proud of her.
We went all over the Far East.
859
00:37:46,565 --> 00:37:48,300
And she was so homesick,
I guess,
860
00:37:48,367 --> 00:37:51,002
that she asked me to go up
to see her old home place
861
00:37:51,069 --> 00:37:53,204
up at Macy Springs, Virginia.
862
00:37:53,271 --> 00:37:54,673
- [laughs]
- Golly.
863
00:37:54,740 --> 00:37:56,375
- All right.
864
00:37:56,442 --> 00:38:01,613
* Oh, I'm thinking tonight
of my blue-eyes *
865
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:07,118
* Who is sailing
far over the sea *
866
00:38:07,185 --> 00:38:12,858
* Yes, I'm thinking
tonight of him only *
867
00:38:12,924 --> 00:38:18,897
* And I wonder
if he ever thinks of me *
868
00:38:18,964 --> 00:38:21,333
- This was a time
I woke up one morning,
869
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:25,571
and I came to the realization
that I thought,
870
00:38:25,637 --> 00:38:28,474
"Oh, my goodness,
I think I'm falling in love
871
00:38:28,540 --> 00:38:30,041
with Johnny Cash."
872
00:38:30,108 --> 00:38:33,512
* For the pleasures
we've both seen together *
873
00:38:33,579 --> 00:38:35,614
Scared
the daylights out of me.
874
00:38:35,681 --> 00:38:38,249
It was not an opportune time.
875
00:38:38,316 --> 00:38:40,118
I thought,
"This is not gonna work
876
00:38:40,185 --> 00:38:41,920
"because we had two lives
of our own
877
00:38:41,987 --> 00:38:43,755
going in other directions."
878
00:38:43,822 --> 00:38:47,359
And it wasn't convenient.
It just wasn't.
879
00:38:47,426 --> 00:38:49,194
- She was married,
880
00:38:49,260 --> 00:38:51,597
and he was married.
881
00:38:51,663 --> 00:38:54,165
He had four girls.
882
00:38:54,232 --> 00:38:57,636
- My mom was truly
in love with my dad,
883
00:38:57,703 --> 00:39:01,740
and they made a life together,
884
00:39:01,807 --> 00:39:04,275
and my dad
was gone all the time.
885
00:39:04,342 --> 00:39:05,877
June was there.
886
00:39:05,944 --> 00:39:07,913
They had this thing about
being on the road
887
00:39:07,979 --> 00:39:10,682
in their blood,
this constant motion,
888
00:39:10,749 --> 00:39:12,918
this striving.
They were both artists.
889
00:39:12,984 --> 00:39:19,124
- * Won't you come, dear,
and shed just one tear *
890
00:39:19,190 --> 00:39:20,559
* And say *
891
00:39:20,626 --> 00:39:23,729
- Everything was wrong.
Everything was crazy.
892
00:39:23,795 --> 00:39:27,065
He was off
on another planet somewhere.
893
00:39:29,468 --> 00:39:32,303
- You were singing one
back there in the dressing room
894
00:39:32,370 --> 00:39:35,140
about the family.
That's what I understood.
895
00:39:35,206 --> 00:39:37,676
That within three years--
be back in a second.
896
00:39:37,743 --> 00:39:39,445
- Ooh, pardon.
- There we go.
897
00:39:39,511 --> 00:39:40,946
- Your lighter, I assume.
898
00:39:41,012 --> 00:39:42,414
- * Sometimes,
it causes me to tremble *
899
00:39:42,481 --> 00:39:45,984
* Tremble, tremble,
tremble, tremble *
900
00:39:46,051 --> 00:39:48,554
- By the time he and June
901
00:39:48,620 --> 00:39:50,121
were falling in love
and she was traveling
902
00:39:50,188 --> 00:39:54,125
with him,
he was a full-blown addict.
903
00:39:54,192 --> 00:39:57,629
- I tried to encourage him
to get clean.
904
00:39:57,696 --> 00:39:59,698
He would try.
905
00:39:59,765 --> 00:40:01,266
And I wouldn't see him
for a long time.
906
00:40:01,332 --> 00:40:04,102
He had come back on the road,
and he'd be using again.
907
00:40:04,169 --> 00:40:08,907
- * When they nailed him
to the cross *
908
00:40:08,974 --> 00:40:13,178
- It was a terrible cycle
that he was in.
909
00:40:13,244 --> 00:40:15,146
- Rosie and I would say
our prayers every night,
910
00:40:15,213 --> 00:40:18,283
and Mama would always say,
"Don't forget tonight,
911
00:40:18,349 --> 00:40:21,553
pray for Johnny Cash,
because he's a good man."
912
00:40:21,620 --> 00:40:24,155
So these little girls
are praying for Johnny Cash,
913
00:40:24,222 --> 00:40:26,958
who's not their daddy.
[laughs]
914
00:40:27,025 --> 00:40:32,397
- * Tremble, tremble, tremble,
tremble, tremble, tremble *
915
00:40:32,464 --> 00:40:34,866
- I didn't want
to fall in love with him,
916
00:40:34,933 --> 00:40:36,835
didn't mean
to fall in love with him,
917
00:40:36,902 --> 00:40:39,370
was scared to death of him.
918
00:40:39,437 --> 00:40:43,341
So I did a lot of just running
and trying to sit in a corner
919
00:40:43,408 --> 00:40:46,612
by myself because I
wouldn't even admit it
920
00:40:46,678 --> 00:40:48,379
to myself for a long time.
921
00:40:48,446 --> 00:40:49,715
[cheers and applause]
922
00:40:49,781 --> 00:40:51,116
- Johnny Cash
& The Tennessee Three!
923
00:40:51,182 --> 00:40:53,184
- I didn't want
to hurt anybody.
924
00:40:53,251 --> 00:40:56,454
I didn't want to do anything
that would hurt him
925
00:40:56,522 --> 00:40:59,625
or his family
or me or my family,
926
00:40:59,691 --> 00:41:03,762
and I'd always been raised
a real religious girl.
927
00:41:03,829 --> 00:41:07,799
- June was
a good Christian girl.
928
00:41:07,866 --> 00:41:09,968
I mean, you didn't go to bed
with somebody
929
00:41:10,035 --> 00:41:12,704
unless you were married.
930
00:41:12,771 --> 00:41:15,807
- And I had never in my life
931
00:41:15,874 --> 00:41:18,009
meant to be married
more than once.
932
00:41:18,076 --> 00:41:19,578
[cheers and applause]
933
00:41:19,645 --> 00:41:22,080
- Mr. Johnny Cash.
934
00:41:22,147 --> 00:41:25,784
[soft acoustic music]
935
00:41:25,851 --> 00:41:30,188
And yet,
she was deeply, deeply,
936
00:41:30,255 --> 00:41:32,724
fiercely in love with John.
937
00:41:32,791 --> 00:41:35,260
***
938
00:41:35,326 --> 00:41:38,697
So there was a real conflict
going on there.
939
00:41:38,764 --> 00:41:41,399
***
940
00:41:41,466 --> 00:41:44,235
- I tell you,
you can kill people like me
941
00:41:44,302 --> 00:41:45,837
when something
like this happens.
942
00:41:45,904 --> 00:41:48,306
***
943
00:41:48,373 --> 00:41:50,809
One night, I know I woke up
in the middle of the night,
944
00:41:50,876 --> 00:41:53,178
and I was crying
when I woke up,
945
00:41:53,244 --> 00:41:56,748
and I thought,
"I can't do this. I can't.
946
00:41:56,815 --> 00:41:58,349
This is driving me crazy."
947
00:41:58,416 --> 00:42:01,620
Because all I could feel
was pain.
948
00:42:01,687 --> 00:42:04,422
And I'd been writing songs
with a guy
949
00:42:04,489 --> 00:42:07,058
named Merle Kilgore,
a great songwriter,
950
00:42:07,125 --> 00:42:09,595
and he had encouraged me
to write.
951
00:42:09,661 --> 00:42:10,862
- OK, we ready?
952
00:42:10,929 --> 00:42:12,197
Give me a minute.
953
00:42:12,263 --> 00:42:13,799
- The next morning,
Kilgore came in,
954
00:42:13,865 --> 00:42:16,568
and I said, "We've got
to hone a little bit on this,
955
00:42:16,635 --> 00:42:19,938
but I really think
I've written a great song."
956
00:42:20,005 --> 00:42:21,506
- Here we go.
Now--
957
00:42:21,573 --> 00:42:25,276
- All right,
we're just pressing on.
958
00:42:25,343 --> 00:42:27,112
- I'm gonna sing
this song for you,
959
00:42:27,178 --> 00:42:28,714
and I'd like
to try my version,
960
00:42:28,780 --> 00:42:30,849
the way it was written
in the beginning.
961
00:42:30,916 --> 00:42:32,784
["Ring of Fire"]
962
00:42:32,851 --> 00:42:37,689
* Love is a burning thing *
963
00:42:37,756 --> 00:42:43,494
* And it makes a fiery ring *
964
00:42:43,561 --> 00:42:48,366
* Bound by wild desire *
965
00:42:48,433 --> 00:42:51,502
* I fell into a ring of fire *
966
00:42:51,569 --> 00:42:53,038
- You know, I don't know
if a lot of people
967
00:42:53,104 --> 00:42:54,472
know that she wrote
"Ring of Fire."
968
00:42:54,539 --> 00:42:55,841
I feel like people
say to me all the time,
969
00:42:55,907 --> 00:42:57,475
Johnny Cash
wrote "Ring of Fire."
970
00:42:57,542 --> 00:43:00,545
But June wrote "Ring of Fire."
- She wrote "Ring of Fire," OK?
971
00:43:00,612 --> 00:43:02,781
- * And the flames
went higher *
972
00:43:02,848 --> 00:43:06,284
* And it burns, burns, burns *
973
00:43:06,351 --> 00:43:08,720
* The ring of fire *
974
00:43:08,787 --> 00:43:12,523
- My father heard
this beautiful song.
975
00:43:12,590 --> 00:43:15,627
- And the story goes,
he had a dream
976
00:43:15,694 --> 00:43:18,997
that he heard Mexicali trumpets
on the "Ring of Fire."
977
00:43:19,064 --> 00:43:26,204
***
978
00:43:28,039 --> 00:43:31,042
- * Love is a burning thing *
979
00:43:31,109 --> 00:43:33,745
***
980
00:43:33,812 --> 00:43:37,615
* And it makes a fiery ring *
981
00:43:37,683 --> 00:43:40,919
***
982
00:43:40,986 --> 00:43:43,454
* Bound by wild desire *
983
00:43:43,521 --> 00:43:45,791
- There's no country song
better-known
984
00:43:45,857 --> 00:43:47,325
than "Ring of Fire,"
I don't think.
985
00:43:47,392 --> 00:43:49,360
- * I fell
into a ring of fire *
986
00:43:49,427 --> 00:43:52,597
- It's a song
that is everlasting.
987
00:43:52,664 --> 00:43:56,234
- I mean, "Ring of Fire,"
when Johnny recorded it,
988
00:43:56,301 --> 00:43:58,536
you're talking about
this thing that came
989
00:43:58,603 --> 00:44:00,972
from this really deep,
like, I'm going to hell.
990
00:44:01,039 --> 00:44:02,473
I'm in a ring of fire.
991
00:44:02,540 --> 00:44:05,076
I'm gonna burn in hell
because of what I feel.
992
00:44:05,143 --> 00:44:08,780
And then you have
this angelic chorus
993
00:44:08,847 --> 00:44:09,981
of these Carter girls up there.
994
00:44:10,048 --> 00:44:11,883
- [harmonizing]
995
00:44:11,950 --> 00:44:15,053
- * The ring of fire,
the ring of fire *
996
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:16,654
- The Juxtaposition of it,
997
00:44:16,722 --> 00:44:20,959
there are just so many things
that shouldn't work,
998
00:44:21,026 --> 00:44:24,930
and yet it works
because it is unusual.
999
00:44:24,996 --> 00:44:26,798
That's the wonderful thing
about music.
1000
00:44:26,865 --> 00:44:29,234
Sometimes those things
that seem like they don't fit
1001
00:44:29,300 --> 00:44:33,171
are what make
the magic of the music.
1002
00:44:33,238 --> 00:44:38,243
- * I fell into
a burning ring of fire *
1003
00:44:38,309 --> 00:44:41,046
* I went down, down, down *
1004
00:44:41,112 --> 00:44:43,815
* And the flames went higher *
1005
00:44:43,882 --> 00:44:47,485
* And it burns, burns, burns *
1006
00:44:47,552 --> 00:44:52,657
* The ring of fire,
the ring of fire *
1007
00:44:52,724 --> 00:44:55,093
***
1008
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:59,164
- She felt like the world
was just gonna swallow her up
1009
00:44:59,230 --> 00:45:01,032
during that time period.
1010
00:45:01,099 --> 00:45:03,401
***
1011
00:45:03,468 --> 00:45:06,772
- So many religious people
think, well, you stay married,
1012
00:45:06,838 --> 00:45:08,339
is what you do.
1013
00:45:08,406 --> 00:45:11,810
And I'm thankful to them
if they can manage to do that,
1014
00:45:11,877 --> 00:45:14,145
but that time came in my life
1015
00:45:14,212 --> 00:45:16,714
when I couldn't
manage to do it.
1016
00:45:16,782 --> 00:45:20,285
[soft acoustic music]
1017
00:45:20,351 --> 00:45:22,653
- She took me and Rosie
to New York
1018
00:45:22,720 --> 00:45:26,057
to see the World's Fair,
and she told us
1019
00:45:26,124 --> 00:45:27,725
that when we went home,
that Daddy Rip
1020
00:45:27,793 --> 00:45:29,694
wouldn't be there anymore,
that he was gonna be
1021
00:45:29,761 --> 00:45:32,330
living somewhere else.
1022
00:45:33,865 --> 00:45:35,300
- I got a divorce,
1023
00:45:35,366 --> 00:45:39,037
and I got it so quietly
that I didn't tell John
1024
00:45:39,104 --> 00:45:40,772
or any of them
that I was divorced
1025
00:45:40,839 --> 00:45:43,441
for about two or three months.
They didn't know it.
1026
00:45:43,508 --> 00:45:46,311
I was very ashamed of it.
1027
00:45:46,377 --> 00:45:49,480
- She was following her heart,
having the courage,
1028
00:45:49,547 --> 00:45:52,851
when back then,
I'm sure people thought
1029
00:45:52,918 --> 00:45:55,620
she was a whore, you know?
1030
00:45:55,686 --> 00:45:57,722
- I understand him.
1031
00:45:57,789 --> 00:45:59,991
We understand each other.
1032
00:46:00,058 --> 00:46:03,661
I understand his pain.
1033
00:46:03,728 --> 00:46:05,864
- Well, she had fought
that pill habit that I had.
1034
00:46:05,931 --> 00:46:08,066
She had fought it
with everything she knew,
1035
00:46:08,133 --> 00:46:11,202
that demon in me.
1036
00:46:11,269 --> 00:46:13,538
I thank God
for people like her
1037
00:46:13,604 --> 00:46:15,773
that still believed that there
was a little good in me.
1038
00:46:15,841 --> 00:46:19,044
- I flushed
things down the commode.
1039
00:46:19,110 --> 00:46:21,546
I flushed down
his amphetamines
1040
00:46:21,612 --> 00:46:24,015
and his barbiturates.
I did everything that I could.
1041
00:46:24,082 --> 00:46:26,952
And I did things that I would
have never done ordinarily,
1042
00:46:27,018 --> 00:46:28,954
but I think I did it
only because
1043
00:46:29,020 --> 00:46:31,589
I didn't know what else to do.
I thought he would die.
1044
00:46:31,656 --> 00:46:33,491
***
1045
00:46:33,558 --> 00:46:36,094
- There were people
that said to me
1046
00:46:36,161 --> 00:46:40,665
that the only person
in the 1960s
1047
00:46:40,731 --> 00:46:44,635
who believed in Johnny Cash
was June Carter.
1048
00:46:44,702 --> 00:46:46,304
***
1049
00:46:46,371 --> 00:46:48,539
That there was no one else,
1050
00:46:48,606 --> 00:46:51,877
that no one saw any light
1051
00:46:51,943 --> 00:46:55,180
at the end of Cash tunnel,
1052
00:46:55,246 --> 00:46:57,883
except for June.
1053
00:46:57,949 --> 00:47:01,586
June believed.
1054
00:47:01,652 --> 00:47:03,855
***
1055
00:47:03,922 --> 00:47:06,992
- I just never did let go.
1056
00:47:07,058 --> 00:47:10,929
I think if you really feel
that way about somebody,
1057
00:47:10,996 --> 00:47:12,697
you just cannot leave them.
1058
00:47:12,763 --> 00:47:15,133
How can you leave them?
1059
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:16,868
You don't care if it hurts.
1060
00:47:16,935 --> 00:47:20,438
You go on through it,
from my point of view,
1061
00:47:20,505 --> 00:47:23,774
because I loved him.
1062
00:47:23,841 --> 00:47:28,579
- And I told him, if he could
stay clean for six months,
1063
00:47:28,646 --> 00:47:32,383
then I would consider
marrying him.
1064
00:47:34,953 --> 00:47:37,022
- When my father
turned his life around
1065
00:47:37,088 --> 00:47:40,458
in the late 1960s,
he went to the Carters
1066
00:47:40,525 --> 00:47:44,129
for help because
they had so much love to lend.
1067
00:47:44,195 --> 00:47:45,796
- * Oh, have you seen *
1068
00:47:45,863 --> 00:47:47,999
- He loved my grandma
and grandfather.
1069
00:47:48,066 --> 00:47:50,201
He stayed at grandma
and granddaddy's house.
1070
00:47:50,268 --> 00:47:51,970
He had his own room there,
1071
00:47:52,037 --> 00:47:53,939
and they were just trying
to get him straight
1072
00:47:54,005 --> 00:47:56,674
and keep him straight.
1073
00:47:56,741 --> 00:47:59,677
- My mother and father
and a couple of other friends,
1074
00:47:59,744 --> 00:48:02,880
we did a lot of praying
and fought a lot of demons.
1075
00:48:02,948 --> 00:48:06,617
* The storms
are on the ocean *
1076
00:48:06,684 --> 00:48:10,521
- During that time,
her deep faith
1077
00:48:10,588 --> 00:48:12,690
was something
that she communicated
1078
00:48:12,757 --> 00:48:15,693
a lot to Johnny.
1079
00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:20,631
- In my troubles in my sorrows
and in my confusions in life,
1080
00:48:20,698 --> 00:48:23,834
I've looked to that
higher spiritual plane.
1081
00:48:23,901 --> 00:48:26,204
- * The world may lose
its motion, love *
1082
00:48:26,271 --> 00:48:30,441
* If I prove false to thee *
1083
00:48:30,508 --> 00:48:33,344
- I'm the luckiest man alive.
1084
00:48:33,411 --> 00:48:36,481
I don't think there would be
another man alive
1085
00:48:36,547 --> 00:48:39,017
that's as lucky as I am
to come through.
1086
00:48:39,084 --> 00:48:42,387
[applause]
1087
00:48:42,453 --> 00:48:44,522
- I would like
to introduce to you
1088
00:48:44,589 --> 00:48:47,325
a family
that I am very close to,
1089
00:48:47,392 --> 00:48:49,360
and they are very dear to me.
1090
00:48:49,427 --> 00:48:50,895
Let's make welcome
Mother Maybelle,
1091
00:48:50,962 --> 00:48:52,663
Helen, June, and Anita--
the Carter family.
1092
00:48:52,730 --> 00:48:55,900
Hi, Mother.
Hi, how are you doing?
1093
00:48:55,967 --> 00:48:58,536
Hi, girls.
1094
00:48:58,603 --> 00:49:00,705
- I was standing
with my family
1095
00:49:00,771 --> 00:49:04,775
in front of about 7,000 people
in London, Ontario, Canada.
1096
00:49:04,842 --> 00:49:08,646
- * Keep on the sunny side,
always on the sunny side *
1097
00:49:08,713 --> 00:49:10,781
- And he walked up
to the microphone
1098
00:49:10,848 --> 00:49:13,284
and said, "Will you marry me?"
Just like that, on the stage.
1099
00:49:13,351 --> 00:49:15,853
- What did you say?
- I choked.
1100
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:18,456
I said, "You've got
to be kidding," you know?
1101
00:49:18,523 --> 00:49:20,425
I said, "Quit.
This is not happening to me.
1102
00:49:20,491 --> 00:49:22,660
Shut up. Hush."
1103
00:49:22,727 --> 00:49:24,662
You know, I wanted to answer
with some kind of glamour,
1104
00:49:24,729 --> 00:49:26,897
but there's no glamour to it.
1105
00:49:26,964 --> 00:49:28,433
It's yes or no.
1106
00:49:28,499 --> 00:49:31,869
So the show must go on,
and I said yes.
1107
00:49:31,936 --> 00:49:37,508
* Clouds and storms
will, in time, pass away *
1108
00:49:37,575 --> 00:49:42,747
* And the sun again
will shine bright and clear *
1109
00:49:42,813 --> 00:49:47,618
* keep on the sunny side,
always on the sunny side *
1110
00:49:47,685 --> 00:49:51,289
- Well, I got married
in March the 1st, 1968.
1111
00:49:51,356 --> 00:49:53,991
- Here's your lovely wife,
June Carter.
1112
00:49:54,059 --> 00:49:56,127
- * It will guide you
all the way *
1113
00:49:56,194 --> 00:50:00,165
* If we keep
on the sunny side of life *
1114
00:50:00,231 --> 00:50:04,135
[applause]
1115
00:50:04,202 --> 00:50:07,072
- June, you've been
a guiding light and inspiration
1116
00:50:07,138 --> 00:50:08,839
in John's life.
1117
00:50:08,906 --> 00:50:11,676
- I had the two daughters,
Carlene and Rosie,
1118
00:50:11,742 --> 00:50:13,844
and we took our suitcases,
1119
00:50:13,911 --> 00:50:16,013
and we went out
to live with John.
1120
00:50:16,081 --> 00:50:20,418
- June's daughters,
Carlene and Rosie.
1121
00:50:20,485 --> 00:50:22,420
- When Mom
and John got married,
1122
00:50:22,487 --> 00:50:24,722
Rosie and I were grooving.
1123
00:50:24,789 --> 00:50:27,625
We were really excited
about having some sisters.
1124
00:50:27,692 --> 00:50:29,827
We were gonna have
four sisters.
1125
00:50:29,894 --> 00:50:32,663
It was like, "Yeah."
1126
00:50:32,730 --> 00:50:36,101
And God love them,
they were not that thrilled,
1127
00:50:36,167 --> 00:50:38,869
and I don't blame them.
1128
00:50:38,936 --> 00:50:41,539
- I remember at 12
when that happened.
1129
00:50:41,606 --> 00:50:43,908
It broke my mother's heart.
1130
00:50:43,974 --> 00:50:46,544
In some ways, I think
it broke my dad's heart.
1131
00:50:46,611 --> 00:50:51,449
It was giving up
a certain idea of his life.
1132
00:50:51,516 --> 00:50:53,684
I think
there's times in your life
1133
00:50:53,751 --> 00:50:55,420
where you know that this is
the fork you're gonna take
1134
00:50:55,486 --> 00:50:56,954
and that you have to take.
1135
00:50:57,021 --> 00:51:00,525
It doesn't mean there's not
grief for what you lose.
1136
00:51:00,591 --> 00:51:02,693
- Your four daughters
are in school in California,
1137
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:05,029
and they wanted to say hello
to their daddy.
1138
00:51:05,096 --> 00:51:06,997
- The family
is really important to me,
1139
00:51:07,064 --> 00:51:08,599
all of the girls.
- Hi, Daddy.
1140
00:51:08,666 --> 00:51:09,800
We love you very much,
1141
00:51:09,867 --> 00:51:11,836
and we hope
you have a wonderful day.
1142
00:51:11,902 --> 00:51:15,039
- Roseanne and Kathy and Cindy
and Tara are all John's girls.
1143
00:51:15,106 --> 00:51:16,607
- So long for now, Daddy.
1144
00:51:16,674 --> 00:51:20,711
- It took a little time
for us all to become family,
1145
00:51:20,778 --> 00:51:22,813
and it was kind of decided
amongst everyone
1146
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:27,452
that it was too complicated
to say this is my step-sister.
1147
00:51:27,518 --> 00:51:28,886
It was just,
"This is my sister."
1148
00:51:28,953 --> 00:51:30,621
So it seemed like
the most normal thing.
1149
00:51:30,688 --> 00:51:32,957
- On the far end
is our daughter Rosie,
1150
00:51:33,023 --> 00:51:35,426
over there,
then our daughter Carlene,
1151
00:51:35,493 --> 00:51:37,094
our daughter Roseanne--
1152
00:51:37,162 --> 00:51:40,731
- Because people want to ask,
"Well, whose kid is that?"
1153
00:51:40,798 --> 00:51:43,468
[applause]
1154
00:51:43,534 --> 00:51:46,171
- Miss June Carter.
Yeah!
1155
00:51:46,237 --> 00:51:47,205
[cheers and applause]
1156
00:51:47,272 --> 00:51:49,674
["Keep on the Sunny Side"]
1157
00:51:49,740 --> 00:51:53,678
* There's a dark
and a troubled side of life *
1158
00:51:53,744 --> 00:51:57,882
* There's a bright
and a sunny side too *
1159
00:51:57,948 --> 00:52:02,420
- * And though we meet
with the darkness and strife *
1160
00:52:02,487 --> 00:52:05,022
* The sunny side
we also may view *
1161
00:52:05,089 --> 00:52:08,659
- My mother was told that she
could not have another baby.
1162
00:52:08,726 --> 00:52:13,731
But by 1969,
she's 40 years old,
1163
00:52:13,798 --> 00:52:16,100
and she's pregnant.
1164
00:52:16,167 --> 00:52:19,036
- * It will brighten
all the way *
1165
00:52:19,103 --> 00:52:20,738
* If we'll keep
on the sunny side of life *
1166
00:52:20,805 --> 00:52:22,573
- And they saw that
as a miracle in itself,
1167
00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:24,141
that I was able
to come into the world.
1168
00:52:24,209 --> 00:52:29,079
- * If we'll keep
on the sunny side of life *
1169
00:52:29,146 --> 00:52:33,318
- Your and June's son,
John Carter Cash.
1170
00:52:33,384 --> 00:52:35,420
- Hey, Johnny Carter.
Hi, sir.
1171
00:52:35,486 --> 00:52:37,422
- There's your son, John.
- Hi, sir.
1172
00:52:37,488 --> 00:52:39,924
- John Carter.
- How you doing?
1173
00:52:39,990 --> 00:52:42,159
- All of us felt like
we were having that baby too.
1174
00:52:42,227 --> 00:52:44,429
It was like, "oh,
John and June
1175
00:52:44,495 --> 00:52:45,530
"are having a baby together.
1176
00:52:45,596 --> 00:52:47,298
This is so wonderful."
1177
00:52:47,365 --> 00:52:51,336
Because it was like
the icing on the cake somehow.
1178
00:52:52,002 --> 00:52:54,038
- Thank you.
- Thank you, girls.
1179
00:52:54,104 --> 00:52:55,940
- I'll sing to you.
1180
00:52:56,006 --> 00:52:57,942
And I think
that I'm the best.
1181
00:52:58,008 --> 00:53:01,279
- You had so many things
going for your career
1182
00:53:01,346 --> 00:53:03,013
when you and John got married.
1183
00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:06,851
And I realized your career
has gone on in its own right,
1184
00:53:06,917 --> 00:53:09,053
but do you ever think
that perhaps,
1185
00:53:09,119 --> 00:53:11,021
if you hadn't
married John Cash,
1186
00:53:11,088 --> 00:53:15,760
you might be
a bigger star individually?
1187
00:53:15,826 --> 00:53:18,896
- Well, I think I had
to make a decision
1188
00:53:18,963 --> 00:53:21,966
when it came to John,
and when I decided
1189
00:53:22,032 --> 00:53:23,534
that I wanted to marry John,
1190
00:53:23,601 --> 00:53:25,069
that that's
what I wanted to do,
1191
00:53:25,135 --> 00:53:28,205
I did make a decision
that where he goes,
1192
00:53:28,273 --> 00:53:32,277
I will go,
and what he does, I will do.
1193
00:53:32,343 --> 00:53:35,480
[applause]
1194
00:53:38,416 --> 00:53:40,751
- Thank you.
1195
00:53:40,818 --> 00:53:43,254
* If I were a carpenter *
1196
00:53:43,321 --> 00:53:46,357
* And you were a lady *
1197
00:53:46,424 --> 00:53:49,327
* Would you marry me anyway? *
1198
00:53:49,394 --> 00:53:52,363
* Would you have my baby? *
1199
00:53:52,430 --> 00:53:54,599
- * If you were a carpenter *
1200
00:53:54,665 --> 00:53:57,468
* And I were a lady *
1201
00:53:57,535 --> 00:54:00,237
* I'd marry you anyway *
1202
00:54:00,305 --> 00:54:02,907
* I'd have your baby *
1203
00:54:02,973 --> 00:54:05,610
- * If a tinker was my trade *
1204
00:54:05,676 --> 00:54:08,679
* Would I still find you? *
1205
00:54:08,746 --> 00:54:11,349
- * I'd be carrying
the pot you made *
1206
00:54:11,416 --> 00:54:15,586
* Following behind you *
1207
00:54:15,653 --> 00:54:17,988
* Save your love
through loneliness *
1208
00:54:18,055 --> 00:54:19,957
* Save your love
through sorrow *
1209
00:54:20,024 --> 00:54:21,792
- Would you folks
here at Opryland
1210
00:54:21,859 --> 00:54:24,662
join me in welcoming
Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Cash
1211
00:54:24,729 --> 00:54:27,264
to "Pop! Goes the Country"?
1212
00:54:27,332 --> 00:54:29,834
- During the time
she was married to Carl Smith,
1213
00:54:29,900 --> 00:54:32,236
she didn't take on the name
June Carter Smith.
1214
00:54:32,303 --> 00:54:34,171
The same
when she married Rip Nix.
1215
00:54:34,238 --> 00:54:37,141
She did not take on
Rip's last name.
1216
00:54:37,207 --> 00:54:41,612
- * And your
soft shoe shining? *
1217
00:54:41,679 --> 00:54:43,614
* Save your love
through loneliness *
1218
00:54:43,681 --> 00:54:47,251
- She becomes officially
and commercially
1219
00:54:47,318 --> 00:54:49,887
and makes a statement
to the world
1220
00:54:49,954 --> 00:54:52,256
that I am June Carter Cash.
1221
00:54:52,323 --> 00:54:53,891
[applause]
1222
00:54:53,958 --> 00:54:57,895
- I'm very pleased to be
any place that my husband is
1223
00:54:57,962 --> 00:55:00,865
because I've been
completely totally happy,
1224
00:55:00,931 --> 00:55:02,733
and I guess the word
is liberated,
1225
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:04,869
since I've been married
to Johnny Cash.
1226
00:55:04,935 --> 00:55:07,304
- * And you were a lady *
1227
00:55:07,372 --> 00:55:11,342
- She felt that when
she gave up her independence,
1228
00:55:11,409 --> 00:55:13,310
things were different then.
1229
00:55:13,378 --> 00:55:15,413
I mean, she even, like,
would change her voice.
1230
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:17,314
- Since I've become
Mrs. Johnny Cash...
1231
00:55:17,382 --> 00:55:19,550
I've been
happy since I've come
1232
00:55:19,617 --> 00:55:20,885
to that conclusion in my life.
1233
00:55:20,951 --> 00:55:23,253
I used to have great ambition,
1234
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:26,023
and I used to want to be
this or want to be that,
1235
00:55:26,090 --> 00:55:28,993
and now I'm just happy
being Johnny Cash's wife.
1236
00:55:29,059 --> 00:55:30,895
- She would say,
"I just pal around
1237
00:55:30,961 --> 00:55:36,634
after Johnny now."
And it's like, "What? No."
1238
00:55:36,701 --> 00:55:38,903
- * Well,
go on down to Jackson *
1239
00:55:38,969 --> 00:55:40,237
- * Go on down to Jackson *
1240
00:55:40,304 --> 00:55:44,041
- * Go ahead
and wreck your health *
1241
00:55:44,108 --> 00:55:46,811
* Go play your hand,
you big talkin' man *
1242
00:55:46,877 --> 00:55:49,514
* And make a big fool
of yourself *
1243
00:55:49,580 --> 00:55:51,081
* Yeah, go to Jackson *
1244
00:55:51,148 --> 00:55:53,183
And I'm not gonna feel bad
about the situation at all
1245
00:55:53,250 --> 00:55:54,885
because by the time
I came into his life,
1246
00:55:54,952 --> 00:55:56,821
he had so many miles on him,
there's no way
1247
00:55:56,887 --> 00:56:01,258
I'll ever catch up with him.
- Whoa! Whoa!
1248
00:56:01,325 --> 00:56:04,995
- June understood
that she was very important
1249
00:56:05,062 --> 00:56:09,233
to holding him up
and that Johnny Cash
1250
00:56:09,299 --> 00:56:12,637
was not Johnny Cash
without June Carter.
1251
00:56:12,703 --> 00:56:14,839
- I think
she was his lifeline,
1252
00:56:14,905 --> 00:56:16,206
and he knew it.
1253
00:56:16,273 --> 00:56:18,676
- * I'm going to Jackson *
1254
00:56:18,743 --> 00:56:21,679
* You turn-a loose-a my coat *
1255
00:56:21,746 --> 00:56:24,515
* Honey,
I'm going to Jackson *
1256
00:56:24,582 --> 00:56:25,983
- When I was born,
1257
00:56:26,050 --> 00:56:28,919
my father was at
the very top of his career.
1258
00:56:28,986 --> 00:56:31,121
- * Well, they'll laugh
at you in Jackson *
1259
00:56:31,188 --> 00:56:32,990
- They had
the live television show.
1260
00:56:33,057 --> 00:56:35,192
- Hello, I'm Johnny Cash.
1261
00:56:35,259 --> 00:56:38,062
- They were on the tongue tip
of everyone in America.
1262
00:56:38,128 --> 00:56:41,231
And Dad could also go
to Germany, England, Ireland,
1263
00:56:41,298 --> 00:56:43,601
Australia and sell out
many, many tickets.
1264
00:56:43,668 --> 00:56:46,637
- At one time, he was
the fifth most recognizable
1265
00:56:46,704 --> 00:56:48,205
human on this planet.
1266
00:56:48,272 --> 00:56:50,107
- * Oh, you big talkin' man *
1267
00:56:50,174 --> 00:56:53,377
- And so they decided
they would just
1268
00:56:53,444 --> 00:56:55,546
take me with them.
1269
00:56:55,613 --> 00:56:58,483
- * Well, now we got
married in a fever *
1270
00:56:58,549 --> 00:57:01,018
- He's a good traveler too.
He loves airplanes.
1271
00:57:01,085 --> 00:57:03,353
He sleeps on planes,
sleeps in cars.
1272
00:57:03,420 --> 00:57:04,989
He's no trouble.
1273
00:57:05,055 --> 00:57:07,725
- And we traveled
the world together.
1274
00:57:07,792 --> 00:57:09,627
- * Ever since
the fire went out *
1275
00:57:09,694 --> 00:57:12,096
* I'm going to Jackson *
1276
00:57:12,162 --> 00:57:16,166
- We even went
to the White House.
1277
00:57:16,233 --> 00:57:19,704
- * Yeah,
we're going to Jackson *
1278
00:57:19,770 --> 00:57:23,741
* Ain't never coming back *
1279
00:57:23,808 --> 00:57:26,076
- And if I ever have a boy,
1280
00:57:26,143 --> 00:57:30,080
I think I'm gonna name him
John Carter.
1281
00:57:30,147 --> 00:57:32,550
- Yeah, Johnny Carter.
And that's what we named him.
1282
00:57:32,617 --> 00:57:34,819
John Carter Cash, take a bow.
1283
00:57:36,086 --> 00:57:37,988
Check him out there.
1284
00:57:38,055 --> 00:57:41,425
- There wasn't a time
that I didn't go on stage
1285
00:57:41,492 --> 00:57:43,861
and perform
or that I was onstage
1286
00:57:43,928 --> 00:57:46,096
as part of a performance.
1287
00:57:46,163 --> 00:57:49,099
It was just part of family.
It's part of what we did.
1288
00:57:49,166 --> 00:57:51,669
- Give it up for the band,
to Marshall and Fluke.
1289
00:57:51,736 --> 00:57:53,838
Come on.
1290
00:57:53,904 --> 00:57:56,741
[cheers and applause]
1291
00:57:56,807 --> 00:57:58,108
- Thank you very much, sir.
1292
00:57:58,175 --> 00:58:00,377
- And my mother,
what she told me
1293
00:58:00,444 --> 00:58:03,113
when I was a kid,
was that when you walk up
1294
00:58:03,180 --> 00:58:07,051
on that stage and you stand
in front of that audience,
1295
00:58:07,117 --> 00:58:09,654
remember
they already love you.
1296
00:58:09,720 --> 00:58:12,857
It's not as if you have
to prove it to them.
1297
00:58:16,460 --> 00:58:18,028
- Good afternoon,
1298
00:58:18,095 --> 00:58:20,297
and welcome
to the home of Johnny Cash.
1299
00:58:24,869 --> 00:58:26,236
- We moved,
1300
00:58:26,303 --> 00:58:28,505
and, suddenly,
we're in this giant house
1301
00:58:28,573 --> 00:58:31,041
that we're not used to.
1302
00:58:31,108 --> 00:58:33,510
And we had all these people
hanging around outside,
1303
00:58:33,578 --> 00:58:35,145
and we had guards,
1304
00:58:35,212 --> 00:58:36,681
and me and Rosie
are on, like, one end,
1305
00:58:36,747 --> 00:58:38,716
and they're on the other end.
1306
00:58:38,783 --> 00:58:42,720
It was just so different.
1307
00:58:42,787 --> 00:58:47,124
- What else do you do at home
when you're not on the road?
1308
00:58:47,191 --> 00:58:49,560
- Oh, we do a lot
of different things.
1309
00:58:49,627 --> 00:58:52,997
We sometimes have friends in
when we get a chance.
1310
00:58:53,063 --> 00:58:57,167
- June made their house
a north star
1311
00:58:57,234 --> 00:58:59,536
for the music community
in this city.
1312
00:58:59,604 --> 00:59:01,872
- It was a tradition
that they would have
1313
00:59:01,939 --> 00:59:04,809
other musicians over
for an evening.
1314
00:59:04,875 --> 00:59:06,577
- You would go downstairs,
1315
00:59:06,644 --> 00:59:10,781
and there was this
blue velvet--rock and roll--
1316
00:59:10,848 --> 00:59:13,150
big sofa.
- All right.
1317
00:59:13,217 --> 00:59:15,352
- Well, almost always,
Roy Orbison was there
1318
00:59:15,419 --> 00:59:17,655
because he was
our next door neighbor.
1319
00:59:17,722 --> 00:59:19,724
George and Tammy
would be there,
1320
00:59:19,790 --> 00:59:21,692
all done up
like George and Tammy.
1321
00:59:21,759 --> 00:59:24,862
- And you'd sit around
and pass the guitar around
1322
00:59:24,929 --> 00:59:28,032
and sing your newest song.
1323
00:59:28,098 --> 00:59:30,534
- Shel Silverstein
showed my father the lyric
1324
00:59:30,601 --> 00:59:32,202
for "A Boy Named Sue."
1325
00:59:32,269 --> 00:59:34,171
Graham Nash
played "Marrakesh Express"
1326
00:59:34,238 --> 00:59:35,873
for the first time ever,
1327
00:59:35,940 --> 00:59:37,074
and the same thing
with Bob Dylan
1328
00:59:37,141 --> 00:59:39,409
with "Lay Lady Lay."
1329
00:59:39,476 --> 00:59:42,847
- So I got the bug
to write songs.
1330
00:59:42,913 --> 00:59:46,050
I cut my teeth in front of
a lot of really cool people.
1331
00:59:46,116 --> 00:59:48,485
I had to follow Paul McCartney
one night.
1332
00:59:48,552 --> 00:59:50,554
[laughs]
1333
00:59:50,621 --> 00:59:53,023
- That's a lot to do with
good friends of ours,
1334
00:59:53,090 --> 00:59:55,559
and some of them
are people who've made it.
1335
00:59:55,626 --> 00:59:58,528
A lot of them are young artists
who haven't made it yet,
1336
00:59:58,595 --> 01:00:00,765
who are struggling,
and there's been several
1337
01:00:00,831 --> 01:00:02,900
struggling people
in our house singing
1338
01:00:02,967 --> 01:00:04,534
at some of these
picking sessions
1339
01:00:04,601 --> 01:00:08,105
who have made it since then
and that we're proud of.
1340
01:00:08,172 --> 01:00:11,075
- She was really good
with young music people
1341
01:00:11,141 --> 01:00:15,145
and allowing them to bloom
and wanting them to bloom.
1342
01:00:15,212 --> 01:00:19,349
- June heard me sing a song
called "Help Me."
1343
01:00:19,416 --> 01:00:23,921
And she wrote my name down
on the back of a blank check,
1344
01:00:23,988 --> 01:00:25,923
and I became
one of her babies.
1345
01:00:25,990 --> 01:00:28,659
- * The greatest cowboy
of them all *
1346
01:00:28,726 --> 01:00:31,261
Larry Gatlin!
1347
01:00:31,328 --> 01:00:35,700
* Once he rode
into the sunset *
1348
01:00:35,766 --> 01:00:38,936
Larry Gatlin,
Kris Kristofferson,
1349
01:00:39,003 --> 01:00:40,871
and, of course,
Waylon would come over.
1350
01:00:40,938 --> 01:00:42,239
- Waylon Jennings.
1351
01:00:42,306 --> 01:00:45,075
- I have known Waylon
since he was 17.
1352
01:00:45,142 --> 01:00:47,477
- She would be
championing them,
1353
01:00:47,544 --> 01:00:50,047
you know,
like slipping tapes to John
1354
01:00:50,114 --> 01:00:51,916
from Kris Kristofferson.
1355
01:00:51,982 --> 01:00:53,283
- We'd like to sing
a song for you.
1356
01:00:53,350 --> 01:00:55,686
It's a brand new
Kris Kristofferson song.
1357
01:00:55,753 --> 01:00:57,121
I'd like to dedicate this
1358
01:00:57,187 --> 01:00:58,689
to my daughter Cindy
who is here tonight.
1359
01:00:58,756 --> 01:01:01,358
- Kris Kristofferson.
- He's one of my babies.
1360
01:01:01,425 --> 01:01:04,328
He's one of those
that was poor
1361
01:01:04,394 --> 01:01:06,697
and trying to make it,
and I felt that he had
1362
01:01:06,764 --> 01:01:10,534
a real talent, and I talked
to a lot of people about him.
1363
01:01:10,600 --> 01:01:14,271
* Help me make it
through the night *
1364
01:01:14,338 --> 01:01:16,373
It's part of what we do.
1365
01:01:16,440 --> 01:01:18,108
They hold up my arms
and let me be Moses
1366
01:01:18,175 --> 01:01:19,609
now and then.
1367
01:01:19,676 --> 01:01:21,779
- That's true,
it's a highly spiritual time,
1368
01:01:21,846 --> 01:01:23,180
but there are other things too
1369
01:01:23,247 --> 01:01:24,448
that come along
at Christmastime.
1370
01:01:24,514 --> 01:01:26,250
- Yeah, like
Christmas presents.
1371
01:01:26,316 --> 01:01:28,185
- Just kind of sitting
around by the fire, you know?
1372
01:01:28,252 --> 01:01:31,321
- And Christmas presents.
- And Christmas presents, yes.
1373
01:01:31,388 --> 01:01:35,592
- I stood over on the side,
and I watched,
1374
01:01:35,659 --> 01:01:38,796
and I learned
and was grateful for it.
1375
01:01:38,863 --> 01:01:42,967
[soft country music]
1376
01:01:43,033 --> 01:01:47,171
And there again,
were it not for June,
1377
01:01:47,237 --> 01:01:51,108
so it really comes back
to the matriarch.
1378
01:01:51,175 --> 01:01:55,780
And any hairy legged man
who says it ain't true
1379
01:01:55,846 --> 01:01:58,682
is lying his ass off.
1380
01:01:58,749 --> 01:02:01,618
- * O come, let us *
1381
01:02:01,685 --> 01:02:06,690
* Adore Him *
1382
01:02:06,757 --> 01:02:09,526
* Christ *
1383
01:02:09,593 --> 01:02:11,896
- So I remember one day
June said,
1384
01:02:11,962 --> 01:02:13,563
"Well, come on, honey,
1385
01:02:13,630 --> 01:02:15,732
let's do some Christmas
shopping at Stein Mart."
1386
01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:17,567
So we got in her blue Rolls.
1387
01:02:17,634 --> 01:02:19,837
- She took Janine off
in her new Rolls-Royce
1388
01:02:19,904 --> 01:02:23,707
that John had just bought her,
left me with John.
1389
01:02:23,774 --> 01:02:25,442
I barely knew him.
1390
01:02:25,509 --> 01:02:28,412
- So I had played some
of Ronnie's songs for them,
1391
01:02:28,478 --> 01:02:32,716
and she said, "Well,
I'm just gonna tell you,
1392
01:02:32,783 --> 01:02:34,451
he's pretty good."
1393
01:02:34,518 --> 01:02:37,054
And--
she goes like this...
1394
01:02:37,121 --> 01:02:38,422
[sucks teeth]
1395
01:02:38,488 --> 01:02:41,859
"He might have
a couple of hits.
1396
01:02:41,926 --> 01:02:43,327
He might."
1397
01:02:43,393 --> 01:02:46,296
And she goes, "Honey,
1398
01:02:46,363 --> 01:02:49,366
"I just need you to understand,
1399
01:02:49,433 --> 01:02:54,738
"It just seems like the ones
that really make it,
1400
01:02:54,805 --> 01:02:56,807
they're all a little crazy."
1401
01:02:56,874 --> 01:03:01,445
In other words don't do it.
You know, don't do it.
1402
01:03:01,511 --> 01:03:04,048
- And Janine comes back
after a few hours,
1403
01:03:04,114 --> 01:03:06,183
and she was just kind of pale,
you know?
1404
01:03:06,250 --> 01:03:09,719
And I'm thinking, "Oh God,
1405
01:03:09,786 --> 01:03:11,822
she spent a lot
of money or what?"
1406
01:03:11,889 --> 01:03:15,392
No, it was that June had
read her the riot act about,
1407
01:03:15,459 --> 01:03:18,996
you know, dating a musician.
1408
01:03:19,063 --> 01:03:20,998
- It was just funny.
1409
01:03:21,065 --> 01:03:23,100
She's right though.
1410
01:03:23,167 --> 01:03:25,870
They are.
1411
01:03:25,936 --> 01:03:27,371
[applause]
1412
01:03:27,437 --> 01:03:29,339
- That's it,
ladies and gentlemen.
1413
01:03:29,406 --> 01:03:32,910
Thank you very much
and good night!
1414
01:03:32,977 --> 01:03:37,814
[cheers and applause]
1415
01:03:37,882 --> 01:03:42,519
- The rigors of the road
are difficult for a couple.
1416
01:03:45,222 --> 01:03:50,560
And when you work together
and live together, it's a lot.
1417
01:03:50,627 --> 01:03:54,564
Plus the constant glare
from the public
1418
01:03:54,631 --> 01:03:57,667
and the projections on them
to live up
1419
01:03:57,734 --> 01:04:01,771
to some kind of myth, I mean,
that's almost impossible.
1420
01:04:01,838 --> 01:04:04,374
It was like a religion.
1421
01:04:04,441 --> 01:04:08,312
[cheers and applause]
1422
01:04:08,378 --> 01:04:10,380
- I said, "I don't know
who this man is."
1423
01:04:10,447 --> 01:04:12,950
- Hello, I'm Johnny Cash.
- I know that.
1424
01:04:13,017 --> 01:04:16,720
- Hello, I'm Johnny Cash.
Hello, I'm Johnny Cash.
1425
01:04:16,786 --> 01:04:18,855
- We had one of those
storybook kind of marriages
1426
01:04:18,923 --> 01:04:21,391
in the beginning
that just was unbelievable.
1427
01:04:21,458 --> 01:04:23,327
We had no problems
for the first 10,
1428
01:04:23,393 --> 01:04:25,095
12 years of our marriage.
1429
01:04:25,162 --> 01:04:29,866
I mean, it was like something
you would read about in books.
1430
01:04:29,934 --> 01:04:31,801
- The first 10 years
they were together,
1431
01:04:31,868 --> 01:04:35,605
they were never apart
ever, ever.
1432
01:04:35,672 --> 01:04:40,010
If she went shopping,
he went shopping with her.
1433
01:04:40,077 --> 01:04:42,879
And I just was like,
"I would shoot myself."
1434
01:04:42,947 --> 01:04:45,482
[laughs]
1435
01:04:45,549 --> 01:04:47,351
- The home I grew up in,
1436
01:04:47,417 --> 01:04:49,453
there was a beautiful
intimate relationship
1437
01:04:49,519 --> 01:04:52,189
that was going on.
My father was clean.
1438
01:04:52,256 --> 01:04:54,524
He wasn't on anything
in the early 1970s.
1439
01:04:54,591 --> 01:04:56,994
It was very peaceful
1440
01:04:57,061 --> 01:05:00,664
and very together as a unit
1441
01:05:00,730 --> 01:05:03,533
up until I was eight
or nine years old,
1442
01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:08,005
when their relationship
changed a great deal.
1443
01:05:08,072 --> 01:05:11,675
By 1980 or so,
1444
01:05:11,741 --> 01:05:14,278
my father rekindled
an addiction.
1445
01:05:14,344 --> 01:05:16,546
- It would sneak up on him.
1446
01:05:16,613 --> 01:05:19,616
Something would trigger him,
or he'd get hurt,
1447
01:05:19,683 --> 01:05:22,219
and you gave John
a bottle of anything
1448
01:05:22,286 --> 01:05:25,922
and didn't monitor him on it,
he's going to take it all.
1449
01:05:25,990 --> 01:05:30,160
- June did not save my dad.
1450
01:05:30,227 --> 01:05:35,499
You can't save another person
from their own addiction.
1451
01:05:35,565 --> 01:05:37,734
- Thank you very much.
I'd like to do my new record.
1452
01:05:37,801 --> 01:05:39,636
- * Bills, love, and pills *
1453
01:05:39,703 --> 01:05:44,641
* And drink,
and wine, and song *
1454
01:05:44,708 --> 01:05:48,578
- June really struggled
to keep him looking good
1455
01:05:48,645 --> 01:05:51,648
when he was in public,
you know, guarding him
1456
01:05:51,715 --> 01:05:54,084
from people
who might be disappointed
1457
01:05:54,151 --> 01:05:56,886
if they saw him in that shape.
1458
01:05:56,953 --> 01:05:59,856
He chose to, you know,
just give himself to people.
1459
01:05:59,923 --> 01:06:02,226
- God bless you
and good night.
1460
01:06:02,292 --> 01:06:04,794
- * That's tired and gone *
1461
01:06:04,861 --> 01:06:06,763
- There were a lot
of characters around him
1462
01:06:06,830 --> 01:06:09,833
who were there
for the wrong reasons.
1463
01:06:09,899 --> 01:06:14,171
June was kind,
but she could be ruthless.
1464
01:06:14,238 --> 01:06:15,872
It took a lot,
1465
01:06:15,939 --> 01:06:20,010
but if it was clear
that you were not trustworthy,
1466
01:06:20,077 --> 01:06:21,511
she'd cut you out.
1467
01:06:21,578 --> 01:06:23,947
[soft acoustic music]
1468
01:06:24,014 --> 01:06:27,217
- Their relationship
suffered greatly.
1469
01:06:27,284 --> 01:06:29,586
They were fighting every day.
1470
01:06:29,653 --> 01:06:31,921
They were very angry
with each other,
1471
01:06:31,988 --> 01:06:35,759
mostly my mom
angry with my father.
1472
01:06:35,825 --> 01:06:38,128
- I knew that they
were having trouble.
1473
01:06:38,195 --> 01:06:40,364
My mother, my sister, and I
were having lunch
1474
01:06:40,430 --> 01:06:41,565
at a restaurant in New York.
1475
01:06:41,631 --> 01:06:43,300
And she was there,
1476
01:06:43,367 --> 01:06:47,671
and she said,
"There's a problem.
1477
01:06:47,737 --> 01:06:49,939
"Either he gets
straightened out
1478
01:06:50,006 --> 01:06:53,343
or I have to leave,
and I don't want to leave."
1479
01:06:53,410 --> 01:06:56,446
She just was at her wit's end.
1480
01:06:56,513 --> 01:06:58,348
So whatever happened,
1481
01:06:58,415 --> 01:07:00,184
it must have been
something horrible.
1482
01:07:00,250 --> 01:07:02,719
***
1483
01:07:02,786 --> 01:07:05,389
- I was traveling with them,
1484
01:07:05,455 --> 01:07:07,457
and, you know,
I remember one night
1485
01:07:07,524 --> 01:07:11,027
hearing my dad's breathing
being very labored.
1486
01:07:12,629 --> 01:07:14,464
He would breathe
all the way out,
1487
01:07:14,531 --> 01:07:17,067
and then
his breath would stop,
1488
01:07:17,134 --> 01:07:18,968
and then after
a little bit, he'd...
1489
01:07:19,035 --> 01:07:20,204
[sniffs, gasps]
1490
01:07:20,270 --> 01:07:21,805
and he'd start breathing again.
1491
01:07:21,871 --> 01:07:25,909
Well, at one point, it stopped,
and he didn't start back.
1492
01:07:29,079 --> 01:07:32,682
[soft dramatic music]
1493
01:07:32,749 --> 01:07:36,120
- Scenes of my life
passed before my eyes.
1494
01:07:36,186 --> 01:07:38,222
I saw myself at my peaks
1495
01:07:38,288 --> 01:07:41,858
and I saw myself walk through
my deepest, darkest valleys.
1496
01:07:41,925 --> 01:07:44,461
***
1497
01:07:44,528 --> 01:07:46,696
- I ran in,
and I got my mother,
1498
01:07:46,763 --> 01:07:49,699
and we got him up,
and we put him in the bathtub,
1499
01:07:49,766 --> 01:07:53,270
and we poured water
all over him.
1500
01:07:53,337 --> 01:07:55,739
I remember he woke up,
1501
01:07:55,805 --> 01:07:59,543
and he was very incoherent.
1502
01:07:59,609 --> 01:08:02,879
I was afraid.
I was overwhelmed.
1503
01:08:02,946 --> 01:08:06,283
I was crying my eyes out.
I mean, I was a kid, you know?
1504
01:08:06,350 --> 01:08:12,322
But it wasn't long after that
many changes began to occur.
1505
01:08:12,389 --> 01:08:15,091
- * There was a time *
1506
01:08:15,159 --> 01:08:18,428
- There was an intervention.
We had an intervention.
1507
01:08:18,495 --> 01:08:21,631
We all wrote letters
to my dad.
1508
01:08:21,698 --> 01:08:23,466
It was very hard
for me to do that.
1509
01:08:23,533 --> 01:08:24,934
We read them all to my father,
1510
01:08:25,001 --> 01:08:26,536
and he agreed
to go to treatment
1511
01:08:26,603 --> 01:08:27,770
at Betty Ford Center.
1512
01:08:27,837 --> 01:08:30,740
[tender country music]
1513
01:08:30,807 --> 01:08:33,243
- When I saw him again
in California,
1514
01:08:33,310 --> 01:08:37,113
that person was back,
my old dad was back again.
1515
01:08:37,180 --> 01:08:39,983
- * Hey Willy Wallacky,
hey John Dougal-y *
1516
01:08:40,049 --> 01:08:44,354
* A lane, quo'Rushity,
noo, noo, noo *
1517
01:08:44,421 --> 01:08:46,656
***
1518
01:08:46,723 --> 01:08:50,394
* Have I told you lately *
1519
01:08:50,460 --> 01:08:53,197
* That I love you? *
1520
01:08:53,263 --> 01:08:57,334
- And at that point, there was
a great forgiveness in place.
1521
01:08:57,401 --> 01:09:00,970
You know, my mother was like,
"It's hard to be Johnny Cash."
1522
01:09:01,037 --> 01:09:04,107
It's like,
"How did she forgive him?"
1523
01:09:04,174 --> 01:09:06,475
She had a way of forgiving
1524
01:09:06,542 --> 01:09:08,645
as if it was
from East to West.
1525
01:09:08,712 --> 01:09:12,448
***
1526
01:09:12,515 --> 01:09:15,618
[cheers and applause]
1527
01:09:17,421 --> 01:09:18,721
- And maybe a lot of times,
1528
01:09:18,787 --> 01:09:21,691
they did buy into
their own myth,
1529
01:09:21,758 --> 01:09:23,327
for better or for worse.
1530
01:09:23,393 --> 01:09:25,194
Maybe that kept them going
at a time
1531
01:09:25,261 --> 01:09:26,863
when they could have broken up.
1532
01:09:26,930 --> 01:09:28,997
You know, it's like, well,
we have this thing together
1533
01:09:29,064 --> 01:09:31,368
that's bigger than us.
1534
01:09:31,435 --> 01:09:33,036
I mean, that's what
it looked like
1535
01:09:33,102 --> 01:09:35,939
from the outside,
and you never know
1536
01:09:36,005 --> 01:09:38,642
what goes on
in people's marriages anyway.
1537
01:09:41,545 --> 01:09:43,779
[light strumming]
1538
01:09:43,846 --> 01:09:45,881
- It's real easy.
1539
01:09:45,948 --> 01:09:47,716
I don't know if you can
learn it fast enough or not,
1540
01:09:47,783 --> 01:09:49,819
but we might
could get it down.
1541
01:09:49,886 --> 01:09:52,956
It's one I wrote just
before I sent them to Vicky.
1542
01:09:53,022 --> 01:09:56,360
It's...
- "Wings of Angels."
1543
01:09:56,426 --> 01:09:59,663
- * Bare me up
on wings of angels *
1544
01:09:59,729 --> 01:10:02,832
* Let me hear
the choir sing *
1545
01:10:02,899 --> 01:10:06,570
* Let me see the faces *
1546
01:10:06,636 --> 01:10:09,939
* Of the cherubim *
1547
01:10:10,006 --> 01:10:11,675
***
1548
01:10:11,741 --> 01:10:14,244
* Lift me up
on wings of angels *
1549
01:10:14,311 --> 01:10:17,981
- I was in the lobby
at the Betty Ford Center.
1550
01:10:18,047 --> 01:10:22,686
We went back there to visit
them, and John was in rehab.
1551
01:10:22,752 --> 01:10:27,891
And June was
at the codependency center.
1552
01:10:27,957 --> 01:10:30,427
- * Jesus, I'm trying *
1553
01:10:30,494 --> 01:10:32,962
* To get to you *
1554
01:10:33,029 --> 01:10:34,898
- When she went
into Betty Ford Center,
1555
01:10:34,964 --> 01:10:36,800
there was an education
that happened
1556
01:10:36,866 --> 01:10:39,869
in her life of what
codependency is that she
1557
01:10:39,936 --> 01:10:42,372
had never conceived of before.
1558
01:10:42,439 --> 01:10:45,442
- She said to me,
"Oh, honey, I just learned
1559
01:10:45,509 --> 01:10:48,678
I'm going to die before John."
1560
01:10:48,745 --> 01:10:50,013
I said, "Why?"
1561
01:10:50,079 --> 01:10:51,648
She goes,
"Well, because codependency
1562
01:10:51,715 --> 01:10:53,182
"is really, really hard.
1563
01:10:53,249 --> 01:10:54,884
We become super parents."
1564
01:10:54,951 --> 01:10:56,686
And I said, "Well,
what do you do in the unit?"
1565
01:10:56,753 --> 01:10:59,255
And she goes, "We paint.
We play with clay.
1566
01:10:59,323 --> 01:11:02,826
"We fly kites.
We learn to be kids again.
1567
01:11:02,892 --> 01:11:04,728
"And I'm telling you this
because you
1568
01:11:04,794 --> 01:11:07,364
need to know this."
1569
01:11:07,431 --> 01:11:09,933
- Being codependent,
which means sometimes
1570
01:11:09,999 --> 01:11:12,436
you're too good
for your own good,
1571
01:11:12,502 --> 01:11:16,005
where you put others
1572
01:11:16,072 --> 01:11:19,108
too much ahead
of your own needs.
1573
01:11:19,175 --> 01:11:21,177
- You helped him to heal
a lot of those scars.
1574
01:11:21,244 --> 01:11:24,047
- Well, that would be nice
if I could say I did that.
1575
01:11:24,113 --> 01:11:26,416
I think all of us girls would
like to be able to claim
1576
01:11:26,483 --> 01:11:28,017
that we healed our husbands.
1577
01:11:28,084 --> 01:11:30,253
You know, if it doesn't work,
you just pop them in the head
1578
01:11:30,320 --> 01:11:32,121
and holler "heal."
1579
01:11:32,188 --> 01:11:34,624
[laughter]
It doesn't work.
1580
01:11:34,691 --> 01:11:36,292
- You sound like
you kind of regret some
1581
01:11:36,360 --> 01:11:39,663
of the things that go along
with the status
1582
01:11:39,729 --> 01:11:41,565
you've achieved
in the business.
1583
01:11:41,631 --> 01:11:43,667
- Oh, I don't
regret any of that.
1584
01:11:43,733 --> 01:11:46,436
There is pain
in everybody's life.
1585
01:11:46,503 --> 01:11:48,738
It's something we all
are confronted with.
1586
01:11:48,805 --> 01:11:50,507
Every one of us has pain.
1587
01:11:50,574 --> 01:11:51,941
It helps us, you know?
1588
01:11:52,008 --> 01:11:54,110
If you've put it behind you,
boy, it'll push you.
1589
01:11:54,177 --> 01:11:56,513
It'll stick you right
through the rest of the world
1590
01:11:56,580 --> 01:11:58,247
if you'll stick it behind you.
1591
01:11:58,314 --> 01:12:00,384
Don't let it hang with you.
Don't put it in front of you.
1592
01:12:00,450 --> 01:12:02,419
That's what I say.
1593
01:12:02,486 --> 01:12:05,422
[cheers and applause]
1594
01:12:05,489 --> 01:12:08,392
[bright acoustic music]
1595
01:12:08,458 --> 01:12:11,595
***
1596
01:12:16,433 --> 01:12:22,338
- There comes a point
in every entertainer's life,
1597
01:12:22,406 --> 01:12:24,374
you're faced
with the mortality,
1598
01:12:24,441 --> 01:12:27,977
your own, and the mortality
of your career.
1599
01:12:28,044 --> 01:12:31,948
And it happened
to John and June.
1600
01:12:32,015 --> 01:12:33,950
- In the early 1980s,
my father didn't
1601
01:12:34,017 --> 01:12:36,119
have very many hits at all.
1602
01:12:36,185 --> 01:12:41,625
And 1984, after he sort of
picked back up his life again,
1603
01:12:41,691 --> 01:12:43,059
it was actually--
he was actually dropped
1604
01:12:43,126 --> 01:12:45,862
by his record label
at the time.
1605
01:12:45,929 --> 01:12:48,532
- It was a dramatic slowdown.
1606
01:12:48,598 --> 01:12:51,267
You know, I saw Johnny
and June the first time
1607
01:12:51,334 --> 01:12:53,670
playing
for 16,000 screaming fans.
1608
01:12:53,737 --> 01:12:55,805
And then the '80s,
we would sometimes
1609
01:12:55,872 --> 01:12:58,174
go to clubs with 300 people.
1610
01:12:58,241 --> 01:13:01,478
- They'd been the biggest
stars in the world
1611
01:13:01,545 --> 01:13:03,346
for six, eight, ten--
1612
01:13:03,413 --> 01:13:09,218
and then it started
not being that way.
1613
01:13:09,285 --> 01:13:10,954
- Good night.
- Good night.
1614
01:13:11,020 --> 01:13:14,190
- I think June was
unsettled by that.
1615
01:13:14,257 --> 01:13:16,793
At the same time,
she was so strong.
1616
01:13:16,860 --> 01:13:18,462
It was like,
he's going to be OK.
1617
01:13:18,528 --> 01:13:20,830
You're going to be OK.
1618
01:13:20,897 --> 01:13:26,970
***
1619
01:13:27,036 --> 01:13:29,272
- We went
to Montreux, Switzerland
1620
01:13:29,338 --> 01:13:32,442
at the invitation
of John and June.
1621
01:13:32,509 --> 01:13:35,378
They decided they wanted
to do a Christmas special
1622
01:13:35,445 --> 01:13:37,213
with their best friends.
1623
01:13:37,280 --> 01:13:38,414
***
1624
01:13:38,482 --> 01:13:40,249
- Hello, I'm Johnny Cash.
1625
01:13:41,084 --> 01:13:42,986
- Hello, I'm Johnny Cash.
1626
01:13:43,820 --> 01:13:45,889
- Hello, I'm Johnny Cash.
1627
01:13:45,955 --> 01:13:48,157
- Hello, I'm Waylie Kris.
1628
01:13:48,224 --> 01:13:50,326
[laughter]
1629
01:13:50,393 --> 01:13:53,229
- Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson,
Kris Kristofferson,
1630
01:13:53,296 --> 01:13:55,899
and Waylon Jennings,
all of whom
1631
01:13:55,965 --> 01:13:59,335
were on the downside
of fame at that time.
1632
01:13:59,402 --> 01:14:02,005
- You know, living with
the likes of good ol' boys
1633
01:14:02,071 --> 01:14:04,641
like John, and Willie,
and Kris, and Waylon,
1634
01:14:04,708 --> 01:14:06,843
well, it's just not that easy.
1635
01:14:06,910 --> 01:14:08,545
You don't know all we know.
1636
01:14:08,612 --> 01:14:11,481
Because these are a bunch
of wives that have a lot to do.
1637
01:14:11,548 --> 01:14:16,052
all: * We're married to a star,
yes, we are *
1638
01:14:16,119 --> 01:14:21,558
* Our men are legends
in their time *
1639
01:14:21,625 --> 01:14:25,061
- All these guys have
been real close to us.
1640
01:14:25,128 --> 01:14:26,663
We were all sitting
around in the room,
1641
01:14:26,730 --> 01:14:28,632
and they were all singing,
and they decided,
1642
01:14:28,698 --> 01:14:30,734
this really shouldn't
stop right here.
1643
01:14:30,800 --> 01:14:32,368
We should do something else.
1644
01:14:32,435 --> 01:14:34,638
And that's when they did their
first Highwaymen album.
1645
01:14:34,704 --> 01:14:36,706
["Highwayman"]
1646
01:14:36,773 --> 01:14:40,209
- * I was a highwayman *
1647
01:14:40,276 --> 01:14:44,447
* Along the coach roads
I did ride *
1648
01:14:44,514 --> 01:14:46,816
* With sword
and pistol by my side *
1649
01:14:46,883 --> 01:14:48,918
- And they reawakened
all their careers.
1650
01:14:48,985 --> 01:14:52,221
- * Many a young maid lost
her baubles to my trade *
1651
01:14:52,288 --> 01:14:56,860
- And then it just evolved
to a ten-year touring.
1652
01:14:56,926 --> 01:14:59,262
***
1653
01:14:59,328 --> 01:15:01,164
- On the road
with the Highwaymen,
1654
01:15:01,230 --> 01:15:04,333
my mother would have been
the resounding matriarch.
1655
01:15:04,400 --> 01:15:07,203
- She was tough,
and she was funny.
1656
01:15:07,270 --> 01:15:09,573
And, you know, if you're
married to Johnny Cash,
1657
01:15:09,639 --> 01:15:11,775
you've got to be tough.
1658
01:15:11,841 --> 01:15:17,847
- * I fly a starship
across the universe divide *
1659
01:15:17,914 --> 01:15:20,083
* And when I reach... *
1660
01:15:20,149 --> 01:15:22,852
- I'm good friends
with all the wives--
1661
01:15:22,919 --> 01:15:25,822
- The Highwomen.
- The Highwomen.
1662
01:15:25,889 --> 01:15:27,824
[laughs]
So...
1663
01:15:27,891 --> 01:15:29,759
- It was just the Highwaymen.
1664
01:15:29,826 --> 01:15:33,730
And they didn't know how
to add the Highwaymen and June.
1665
01:15:33,797 --> 01:15:36,165
There was some discussion
whether John and June
1666
01:15:36,232 --> 01:15:38,134
could do a song together.
1667
01:15:38,201 --> 01:15:40,937
And it just, nobody knew
quite how to work it out.
1668
01:15:41,004 --> 01:15:43,006
- June Carter,
who wrote "Ring of Fire,"
1669
01:15:43,072 --> 01:15:44,240
my wife is here tonight.
1670
01:15:44,307 --> 01:15:46,643
Stand up and take a bow,
would you?
1671
01:15:46,710 --> 01:15:48,077
[cheers and applause]
1672
01:15:48,144 --> 01:15:50,346
Where are you, baby?
1673
01:15:50,413 --> 01:15:52,649
Hey, here she is,
back over here.
1674
01:15:52,716 --> 01:15:54,517
All right.
1675
01:15:54,584 --> 01:15:57,787
- It ended up that June,
during every show,
1676
01:15:57,854 --> 01:16:00,289
would stand up
in the audience.
1677
01:16:00,356 --> 01:16:02,258
And they put
a spotlight on her.
1678
01:16:02,325 --> 01:16:05,128
And she would look around
at everybody and wave.
1679
01:16:05,194 --> 01:16:07,196
- Been the one time
in my life when I've got
1680
01:16:07,263 --> 01:16:10,066
to sit and enjoy it kind of.
1681
01:16:10,133 --> 01:16:13,637
Really have enjoyed
the time with the boys
1682
01:16:13,703 --> 01:16:15,605
and with their wives as well.
1683
01:16:15,672 --> 01:16:18,608
["Ring of Fire"]
1684
01:16:18,675 --> 01:16:25,148
***
1685
01:16:25,214 --> 01:16:27,450
- There's an awkwardness,
and I don't understand,
1686
01:16:27,516 --> 01:16:30,319
because I'm not an artist,
how that decision is made.
1687
01:16:30,386 --> 01:16:33,056
So how June ended up
never being on stage
1688
01:16:33,122 --> 01:16:35,759
during those years,
I really don't know.
1689
01:16:35,825 --> 01:16:38,527
But it probably
was hard on her.
1690
01:16:38,594 --> 01:16:40,329
***
1691
01:16:40,396 --> 01:16:44,433
- That's part of the thing
that's hard about her ego
1692
01:16:44,500 --> 01:16:47,303
because that ambition
was there.
1693
01:16:47,370 --> 01:16:51,708
And she had
to kind of squelch it.
1694
01:16:51,775 --> 01:16:53,710
- She didn't know what
to do with herself.
1695
01:16:53,777 --> 01:16:57,446
You can't be on the road
all your entire life
1696
01:16:57,513 --> 01:16:59,448
and suddenly not
have it anymore.
1697
01:16:59,515 --> 01:17:00,917
["Where We'll
Never Grow Old"]
1698
01:17:00,984 --> 01:17:03,052
- * I have heard of a land *
1699
01:17:03,119 --> 01:17:06,055
* On the faraway strand *
1700
01:17:06,122 --> 01:17:10,894
* 'Tis a beautiful home
of the soul *
1701
01:17:10,960 --> 01:17:12,662
* Built by Jesus on high *
1702
01:17:12,729 --> 01:17:15,598
- She started going
back to Virginia a lot.
1703
01:17:15,665 --> 01:17:18,434
She started spending
a lot of time in the home
1704
01:17:18,501 --> 01:17:21,971
that she grew up in
as a little girl.
1705
01:17:22,038 --> 01:17:25,641
She was experiencing memories
of what the fire smelled like
1706
01:17:25,709 --> 01:17:28,912
in the fireplace,
of which flowers in particular
1707
01:17:28,978 --> 01:17:31,447
grew in the woods
in the backyard.
1708
01:17:31,514 --> 01:17:32,916
***
1709
01:17:32,982 --> 01:17:35,551
She got back in connection
with those things
1710
01:17:35,618 --> 01:17:39,655
from when she was at a period
of innocence and beauty.
1711
01:17:39,723 --> 01:17:42,025
- June started
to look at her life
1712
01:17:42,091 --> 01:17:45,261
to sort of remind herself,
I think,
1713
01:17:45,328 --> 01:17:47,831
of who she was and to remind
everybody else,
1714
01:17:47,897 --> 01:17:49,365
you know,
here's who I really am.
1715
01:17:49,432 --> 01:17:52,001
I'm not Mrs. Johnny Cash.
I'm June Carter.
1716
01:17:52,068 --> 01:17:53,770
And this is my story.
1717
01:17:53,837 --> 01:17:57,473
- * We'll never grow old *
1718
01:17:59,475 --> 01:18:01,878
- He said, you need Vicky,
is what you need.
1719
01:18:01,945 --> 01:18:03,279
And I said, OK.
1720
01:18:03,346 --> 01:18:05,581
Anyway, she's got
this new record company
1721
01:18:05,648 --> 01:18:07,416
that she started.
1722
01:18:07,483 --> 01:18:09,518
- I would have never thought
in a million years
1723
01:18:09,585 --> 01:18:13,456
that I would, like,
make that record with June.
1724
01:18:13,522 --> 01:18:16,592
But she started calling me.
1725
01:18:16,659 --> 01:18:20,563
You know, June said
she had to get this music out.
1726
01:18:20,629 --> 01:18:23,466
She had a legacy
to leave behind, you know?
1727
01:18:23,532 --> 01:18:26,803
That was what she was
trying to accomplish.
1728
01:18:26,870 --> 01:18:28,504
[laughter]
1729
01:18:28,571 --> 01:18:30,874
I didn't know how I was going
to pay for it or anything
1730
01:18:30,940 --> 01:18:32,441
like that.
1731
01:18:32,508 --> 01:18:36,679
But June had more faith
than anybody on the planet.
1732
01:18:36,746 --> 01:18:39,482
She was always optimistic.
1733
01:18:39,548 --> 01:18:41,717
You know, something
really terrible could happen,
1734
01:18:41,785 --> 01:18:43,853
and she would figure out
a way to take lemons
1735
01:18:43,920 --> 01:18:45,822
and make lemonade out of it.
1736
01:18:45,889 --> 01:18:47,523
- Nothing to it.
[clicks tongue]
1737
01:18:47,590 --> 01:18:49,893
- She would always say,
"It's OK.
1738
01:18:49,959 --> 01:18:52,796
"We'll get through this.
Just press on, honey.
1739
01:18:52,862 --> 01:18:54,063
Just press on."
1740
01:18:54,130 --> 01:18:56,165
And that was
her philosophy in life.
1741
01:18:56,232 --> 01:18:59,335
Those two words
are absolutely how
1742
01:18:59,402 --> 01:19:03,706
I would and do remember June,
press on.
1743
01:19:03,773 --> 01:19:06,642
- OK, let's press on.
1744
01:19:06,709 --> 01:19:08,744
- Let's start with "I Used
To Be Somebody" first.
1745
01:19:08,812 --> 01:19:10,079
- OK.
1746
01:19:10,146 --> 01:19:11,680
- June and I,
we put on the blinders,
1747
01:19:11,747 --> 01:19:14,617
and it happened.
1748
01:19:14,683 --> 01:19:17,553
We made the record.
1749
01:19:17,620 --> 01:19:19,455
- All right, Marty.
1750
01:19:19,522 --> 01:19:22,258
***
1751
01:19:22,325 --> 01:19:25,328
- My mother came to me
and asked me if I would
1752
01:19:25,394 --> 01:19:27,696
co-produce
the album "Press On."
1753
01:19:27,763 --> 01:19:31,300
I was nervous in a certain way
because this was one
1754
01:19:31,367 --> 01:19:33,803
of the first things
that I had ever recorded.
1755
01:19:33,870 --> 01:19:35,704
***
1756
01:19:35,771 --> 01:19:38,341
But she gave me the energy.
She gave me the strength.
1757
01:19:38,407 --> 01:19:40,109
She's like,
"Oh, you can do this.
1758
01:19:40,176 --> 01:19:42,545
Oh, yes, you can do this."
1759
01:19:42,611 --> 01:19:45,448
- Go back to the top of that
verse, that different verse,
1760
01:19:45,514 --> 01:19:48,051
because everybody's
still working on that.
1761
01:19:48,117 --> 01:19:50,987
- One, two, three, four.
1762
01:19:51,054 --> 01:19:52,788
["Tall Lover Man"]
1763
01:19:52,856 --> 01:19:58,127
- * Two lovers stood
in the white, white sand *
1764
01:19:58,928 --> 01:20:04,200
* Dark-eyed maiden
and her tall lover man *
1765
01:20:05,001 --> 01:20:09,438
* With surprise
and pain in her eyes *
1766
01:20:09,505 --> 01:20:11,507
- It was my mother's time
to shine.
1767
01:20:11,574 --> 01:20:13,776
It was as if every dream
that she had,
1768
01:20:13,843 --> 01:20:16,980
when she went
to New York City in the 1950s,
1769
01:20:17,046 --> 01:20:19,148
they were all coming back real.
1770
01:20:19,215 --> 01:20:21,417
- When are you coming back?
1771
01:20:21,484 --> 01:20:23,752
- Around that time,
she did "The Apostle"
1772
01:20:23,819 --> 01:20:25,054
with Robert Duvall.
1773
01:20:25,121 --> 01:20:27,423
- I just--
I'm just a little chilly.
1774
01:20:27,490 --> 01:20:29,758
- Hold on now, hold on.
1775
01:20:29,825 --> 01:20:32,828
- We did the way we were
taught from Sandy Meisner,
1776
01:20:32,896 --> 01:20:35,398
who was both
of our teachers in New York
1777
01:20:35,464 --> 01:20:37,633
at the Neighborhood Playhouse.
1778
01:20:37,700 --> 01:20:38,968
***
1779
01:20:39,035 --> 01:20:40,269
- Hello?
1780
01:20:40,336 --> 01:20:42,371
- Well, she was always ready.
1781
01:20:42,438 --> 01:20:45,541
She was great to work with,
just wonderful.
1782
01:20:45,608 --> 01:20:48,978
She had her own sense
of being strong-willed.
1783
01:20:49,045 --> 01:20:50,413
- She can't do that, son.
1784
01:20:50,479 --> 01:20:52,015
You know she can't.
1785
01:20:52,081 --> 01:20:55,952
- She was so excited
to be in that film with him.
1786
01:20:56,019 --> 01:20:58,354
She just adored Robert Duvall
1787
01:20:58,421 --> 01:21:00,756
and had become
good friends with him.
1788
01:21:00,823 --> 01:21:03,492
- I just wish he had
given me another part.
1789
01:21:03,559 --> 01:21:06,162
Why did he have to give me
one where I'm older
1790
01:21:06,229 --> 01:21:08,597
than he is, when he's older--
1791
01:21:08,664 --> 01:21:09,832
[laughter]
1792
01:21:09,899 --> 01:21:13,102
When he's older than I am?
1793
01:21:13,836 --> 01:21:17,340
- Good sense of humor,
good sense of humor.
1794
01:21:17,406 --> 01:21:23,779
***
1795
01:21:23,846 --> 01:21:26,649
- That's about where
we do it right there.
1796
01:21:27,583 --> 01:21:29,118
- Johnny is with me now.
1797
01:21:29,185 --> 01:21:30,853
He goes wherever I go.
1798
01:21:30,920 --> 01:21:34,223
And it's kind of,
he likes to be where I am,
1799
01:21:34,290 --> 01:21:35,658
and I like to be where he is.
1800
01:21:35,724 --> 01:21:38,294
- I like this one.
That's good.
1801
01:21:38,361 --> 01:21:41,730
* I've grown wearier *
1802
01:21:41,797 --> 01:21:43,499
***
1803
01:21:43,566 --> 01:21:46,102
- During the recording,
Johnny's health
1804
01:21:46,169 --> 01:21:49,038
was pretty fragile.
1805
01:21:49,105 --> 01:21:52,741
- So John was in intensive
care literally the day
1806
01:21:52,808 --> 01:21:55,511
before the first day
of recording.
1807
01:21:55,578 --> 01:21:58,347
He was very shaky.
His hands were shaking.
1808
01:21:58,414 --> 01:22:00,116
And he didn't have
much energy for it,
1809
01:22:00,183 --> 01:22:02,051
but he said, you know, he--
1810
01:22:02,118 --> 01:22:05,654
I was amazed by the
professionalism of this guy.
1811
01:22:05,721 --> 01:22:07,690
- [coughs]
1812
01:22:07,756 --> 01:22:10,826
- Quick.
- I gotta settle down first.
1813
01:22:10,893 --> 01:22:13,296
- He wanted
to play backup guitar
1814
01:22:13,362 --> 01:22:15,431
and sing harmonies with her.
1815
01:22:15,498 --> 01:22:18,601
He wanted to be there for her
as she was for him
1816
01:22:18,667 --> 01:22:20,336
in so many different ways.
1817
01:22:20,403 --> 01:22:21,937
["Far Side Banks of Jordan"]
1818
01:22:22,005 --> 01:22:23,772
- * I believe my steps *
1819
01:22:23,839 --> 01:22:25,741
* Are growing
wearier each day *
1820
01:22:25,808 --> 01:22:28,877
- He comes out there to do
"Far Side Banks of Jordan."
1821
01:22:28,944 --> 01:22:31,947
- * Got another journey
on my mind *
1822
01:22:32,015 --> 01:22:34,117
- That song meant
so much to them.
1823
01:22:34,183 --> 01:22:37,520
They sang that every night
on stage from the late 1970s
1824
01:22:37,586 --> 01:22:40,256
until the end
of their performance career.
1825
01:22:40,323 --> 01:22:43,226
- * Wanna stay,
and my one regret *
1826
01:22:43,292 --> 01:22:46,762
* Is leaving you behind *
1827
01:22:46,829 --> 01:22:48,531
***
1828
01:22:48,597 --> 01:22:52,068
- * But if it proves
to be his will *
1829
01:22:52,135 --> 01:22:55,104
* That I am first to cross *
1830
01:22:55,171 --> 01:23:00,809
* And somehow, I have
a feeling it will be *
1831
01:23:00,876 --> 01:23:02,678
***
1832
01:23:02,745 --> 01:23:06,215
* When it comes
your time to travel *
1833
01:23:06,282 --> 01:23:09,052
* Likewise, don't feel lost *
1834
01:23:09,118 --> 01:23:15,158
* For I will be the first one
that you'll see *
1835
01:23:15,224 --> 01:23:17,526
both: * And I'll be waiting *
1836
01:23:17,593 --> 01:23:22,731
* On the far side banks
of Jordan *
1837
01:23:22,798 --> 01:23:24,167
- People have come
to me and said,
1838
01:23:24,233 --> 01:23:26,469
"What's it like to be
the product of the greatest
1839
01:23:26,535 --> 01:23:28,271
love affair that ever was?"
1840
01:23:28,337 --> 01:23:31,207
Evidently,
they were not there, right?
1841
01:23:31,274 --> 01:23:32,941
Because they had struggles.
1842
01:23:33,008 --> 01:23:36,879
But by the end of their life,
my mother and father
1843
01:23:36,945 --> 01:23:40,216
were more in love
than they ever had been.
1844
01:23:40,283 --> 01:23:41,784
- They loved each other.
1845
01:23:41,850 --> 01:23:44,287
And they were great friends.
1846
01:23:44,353 --> 01:23:48,124
They both loved
what the other did.
1847
01:23:48,191 --> 01:23:52,361
- Love is what made
their relationship.
1848
01:23:52,428 --> 01:23:54,630
It wasn't fame.
It wasn't power.
1849
01:23:54,697 --> 01:23:57,366
It was what love really is.
1850
01:23:57,433 --> 01:23:59,435
And people forget
what love is.
1851
01:23:59,502 --> 01:24:03,539
It's patient, it's kind,
it's long-suffering.
1852
01:24:03,606 --> 01:24:06,975
But the beauty
is what stands out.
1853
01:24:07,042 --> 01:24:11,747
And what's so great is to get
a window into that strength
1854
01:24:11,814 --> 01:24:16,185
and into that beauty, we have
but to listen to the music.
1855
01:24:16,252 --> 01:24:18,121
both: * And I'll be waiting *
1856
01:24:18,187 --> 01:24:23,726
* On the far side banks
of Jordan *
1857
01:24:23,792 --> 01:24:28,864
* I'll be sitting,
drawing pictures in the sand *
1858
01:24:28,931 --> 01:24:30,366
***
1859
01:24:30,433 --> 01:24:32,901
- I'm here mostly
because my life,
1860
01:24:32,968 --> 01:24:35,704
the way it's turned around
in the last little bit.
1861
01:24:35,771 --> 01:24:37,773
For the past several years,
I just followed
1862
01:24:37,840 --> 01:24:40,876
Johnny Cash around the world
wherever he went.
1863
01:24:40,943 --> 01:24:42,811
And I worked a whole lot
harder than he did,
1864
01:24:42,878 --> 01:24:44,580
but you all didn't know that.
1865
01:24:44,647 --> 01:24:47,850
So I'm glad to have
the opportunity to tell you.
1866
01:24:47,916 --> 01:24:49,852
- You know, June,
it's been many years
1867
01:24:49,918 --> 01:24:52,655
since she has had
a new album out, "Press On."
1868
01:24:52,721 --> 01:24:56,091
- Called "Press On,"
first solo album in 25 years.
1869
01:24:56,159 --> 01:24:57,326
- She was one of the stars
1870
01:24:57,393 --> 01:24:59,228
in Robert Duvall's
film "The Apostle."
1871
01:24:59,295 --> 01:25:01,630
And now with her brand-new CD
called "Press On,"
1872
01:25:01,697 --> 01:25:04,433
here is June Carter Cash.
1873
01:25:04,500 --> 01:25:08,737
- * I fell
into a ring of fire *
1874
01:25:08,804 --> 01:25:11,507
* I fell into a burnin'... *
1875
01:25:11,574 --> 01:25:13,576
- This is the June Carter Cash
album right here.
1876
01:25:13,642 --> 01:25:15,444
And I listened
to this this afternoon.
1877
01:25:15,511 --> 01:25:20,149
And my goodness, what a lovely,
touching, sweet collection
1878
01:25:20,216 --> 01:25:21,784
of music this is.
1879
01:25:21,850 --> 01:25:24,887
- "Press On," I think,
caught everybody by surprise.
1880
01:25:24,953 --> 01:25:27,490
- That is true timeless music.
1881
01:25:27,556 --> 01:25:29,392
It was never a trend-based.
1882
01:25:29,458 --> 01:25:31,059
It never chased anything.
1883
01:25:31,126 --> 01:25:35,231
June's songs are just based
on basic human emotion,
1884
01:25:35,298 --> 01:25:37,766
things that
everyone could relate to.
1885
01:25:37,833 --> 01:25:39,535
- It is a privilege
to introduce
1886
01:25:39,602 --> 01:25:40,769
the great June Carter Cash.
1887
01:25:40,836 --> 01:25:42,405
- Here's June Carter Cash.
1888
01:25:42,471 --> 01:25:44,139
- Here she is,
June Carter Cash.
1889
01:25:44,207 --> 01:25:46,141
- The only June Carter Cash.
1890
01:25:46,209 --> 01:25:47,476
- Yeah!
1891
01:25:47,543 --> 01:25:49,245
- Thank you very much.
1892
01:25:49,312 --> 01:25:51,146
This is a big night for me.
1893
01:25:51,214 --> 01:25:52,681
* Burnin' ring of fire *
1894
01:25:52,748 --> 01:25:54,683
* Went down, down, down *
1895
01:25:54,750 --> 01:25:58,387
- It is the true spirit
of American music.
1896
01:25:58,454 --> 01:26:01,224
- And it won her a Grammy.
1897
01:26:01,290 --> 01:26:03,626
- * Ring of fire *
1898
01:26:03,692 --> 01:26:06,629
[cheers and applause]
1899
01:26:06,695 --> 01:26:09,365
- "Press On" won a Grammy.
1900
01:26:09,432 --> 01:26:10,699
It was, like,
really surprising.
1901
01:26:10,766 --> 01:26:12,268
I mean, I had no idea.
1902
01:26:12,335 --> 01:26:15,137
And it was just such an honor
that that happened.
1903
01:26:15,204 --> 01:26:17,206
[soft music]
1904
01:26:17,273 --> 01:26:19,074
- Yeah, I mean, she was very,
very proud of that.
1905
01:26:19,141 --> 01:26:21,444
You know, Johnny had
countless Grammys.
1906
01:26:21,510 --> 01:26:22,978
And this was her own Grammy.
1907
01:26:23,045 --> 01:26:24,780
So, yeah, she was
really proud of that.
1908
01:26:24,847 --> 01:26:26,282
- Everybody pooh-poohs it.
1909
01:26:26,349 --> 01:26:28,016
Everybody goes,
oh, Grammy award.
1910
01:26:28,083 --> 01:26:30,686
But you know what, when you get
one, it means something.
1911
01:26:30,753 --> 01:26:32,621
It really means something.
1912
01:26:32,688 --> 01:26:34,623
It's like,
it's music's highest accolade.
1913
01:26:34,690 --> 01:26:38,126
And you might not think
you wanted it,
1914
01:26:38,193 --> 01:26:39,695
but you know you really did.
1915
01:26:39,762 --> 01:26:44,132
- Please give a Grand Ole Opry
welcome to June Carter Cash.
1916
01:26:44,199 --> 01:26:46,769
[cheers and applause]
1917
01:26:46,835 --> 01:26:49,805
- And then they would
start shouting for June.
1918
01:26:49,872 --> 01:26:52,375
- Thank you very much.
1919
01:26:52,441 --> 01:26:55,177
Gosh, what a big room.
1920
01:26:55,244 --> 01:26:59,047
- You know she had
to feel vindication.
1921
01:26:59,114 --> 01:27:00,549
- Oh, thank you.
1922
01:27:00,616 --> 01:27:02,217
- You know that she--
1923
01:27:02,285 --> 01:27:06,889
in her final years,
people are screaming for June.
1924
01:27:06,955 --> 01:27:08,491
- Oh, thank you.
1925
01:27:08,557 --> 01:27:12,495
You've almost made me cry.
1926
01:27:12,561 --> 01:27:15,030
- She is standing up
there giving us
1927
01:27:15,097 --> 01:27:20,068
a life lesson of what
it means to stick it out.
1928
01:27:20,135 --> 01:27:27,075
***
1929
01:27:28,344 --> 01:27:29,712
- OK, son?
1930
01:27:29,778 --> 01:27:31,280
- Let's do one more.
1931
01:27:31,347 --> 01:27:32,748
- Press on, Norman.
1932
01:27:32,815 --> 01:27:36,218
[folk music playing]
1933
01:27:36,285 --> 01:27:39,187
- And then she was back
in the studio again...
1934
01:27:39,254 --> 01:27:42,891
***
1935
01:27:42,958 --> 01:27:45,994
In Virginia at the house
where she was raised.
1936
01:27:46,061 --> 01:27:50,866
- * Oh, give to me
a winding stream *
1937
01:27:50,933 --> 01:27:53,502
- She gave it every bit
of energy she had,
1938
01:27:53,569 --> 01:27:57,740
14 songs within three days.
1939
01:27:57,806 --> 01:28:00,509
- * But I will dance,
I will sing *
1940
01:28:00,576 --> 01:28:02,878
* And my laugh shall be gay *
1941
01:28:02,945 --> 01:28:05,314
- You know, moss did not
grow on my mama's feet.
1942
01:28:05,381 --> 01:28:07,683
She had a lot of energy.
1943
01:28:07,750 --> 01:28:09,618
Her work ethic,
period, was like--
1944
01:28:09,685 --> 01:28:11,387
she was like
a superwoman to me.
1945
01:28:11,454 --> 01:28:16,692
- * But I'm longing to see him
and regret the dark hour *
1946
01:28:16,759 --> 01:28:20,396
* It's gone and neglected *
1947
01:28:20,463 --> 01:28:24,299
OK, I'm ready
to press on, son.
1948
01:28:24,367 --> 01:28:26,735
- One second.
- OK.
1949
01:28:28,971 --> 01:28:31,674
No--I'll tell you how it is.
1950
01:28:31,740 --> 01:28:34,309
I'll just tell you again.
1951
01:28:35,711 --> 01:28:38,213
We don't want
to think about death,
1952
01:28:38,280 --> 01:28:40,082
but sometimes I do.
1953
01:28:40,148 --> 01:28:42,618
Sometimes I feel
like I'm on a hill,
1954
01:28:42,685 --> 01:28:45,153
and it's John's grave
I'm kneeling on.
1955
01:28:45,220 --> 01:28:49,458
And if you can imagine me
just sitting there
1956
01:28:49,525 --> 01:28:51,827
trying to talk to him.
1957
01:28:51,894 --> 01:28:56,499
* When death shall
close these eyelids *
1958
01:28:56,565 --> 01:29:02,538
* And this heart
shall cease to beat *
1959
01:29:02,605 --> 01:29:08,711
* And they lay me
down to rest *
1960
01:29:08,777 --> 01:29:12,648
* In some flowery *
1961
01:29:12,715 --> 01:29:17,853
* Bound retreat *
1962
01:29:17,920 --> 01:29:22,224
* Will you miss me? *
1963
01:29:22,290 --> 01:29:25,394
all: * Miss me when I'm gone *
1964
01:29:25,461 --> 01:29:29,297
- * Will you miss me? *
1965
01:29:29,364 --> 01:29:32,501
all: * Miss me when I'm gone *
1966
01:29:32,568 --> 01:29:34,870
- * Will you... *
1967
01:29:34,937 --> 01:29:39,107
- I remember my mother
was coming out the door.
1968
01:29:39,174 --> 01:29:45,013
And I remember seeing her get
in the car and her telling me,
1969
01:29:45,080 --> 01:29:46,782
"I've got to go
to the hospital."
1970
01:29:46,849 --> 01:29:48,651
I look back now,
and I remember
1971
01:29:48,717 --> 01:29:50,052
the look in her eye.
1972
01:29:50,118 --> 01:29:53,856
It was this joy,
but such sadness
1973
01:29:53,922 --> 01:29:57,893
and weakness at the same time.
1974
01:29:57,960 --> 01:30:00,696
And she went to the hospital.
1975
01:30:00,763 --> 01:30:03,098
Um...
1976
01:30:04,266 --> 01:30:07,302
- * And come sit along... *
1977
01:30:07,369 --> 01:30:11,406
- When I got the phone call,
I was shocked
1978
01:30:11,474 --> 01:30:14,677
because John had been the one.
1979
01:30:14,743 --> 01:30:17,112
I think everybody
kind of expected John
1980
01:30:17,179 --> 01:30:19,748
from his illness
over the last ten years,
1981
01:30:19,815 --> 01:30:22,050
that he would be
the first to go.
1982
01:30:22,117 --> 01:30:24,352
- * Will you miss me? *
1983
01:30:24,419 --> 01:30:26,421
all: * Miss me when I'm gone *
1984
01:30:26,489 --> 01:30:28,624
- Her death was sudden.
1985
01:30:28,691 --> 01:30:33,896
And it hit all of us really
hard, the whole community.
1986
01:30:33,962 --> 01:30:35,564
- It was just confusing.
1987
01:30:35,631 --> 01:30:37,332
It was like, oh, no,
there goes the tent pole
1988
01:30:37,399 --> 01:30:40,002
for everybody, you know?
1989
01:30:40,068 --> 01:30:44,339
It was a hard one.
It was a hard one.
1990
01:30:44,406 --> 01:30:48,944
- * But I could not
hide my sorrow *
1991
01:30:49,011 --> 01:30:53,181
* when they laid her
in the grave *
1992
01:30:53,248 --> 01:30:54,583
* Can the circle... *
1993
01:30:54,650 --> 01:30:57,620
- It's hard even
now remembering
1994
01:30:57,686 --> 01:31:00,055
that whole few days.
1995
01:31:00,122 --> 01:31:02,525
- * Lord, by and by *
1996
01:31:02,591 --> 01:31:04,059
* There's a better... *
1997
01:31:04,126 --> 01:31:06,128
- When we went
to June's funeral,
1998
01:31:06,194 --> 01:31:09,532
Johnny Cash was so sad,
oh, my God.
1999
01:31:09,598 --> 01:31:13,836
He just could hardly sit there.
2000
01:31:13,902 --> 01:31:18,106
- I just remember him saying,
"I put her in a blue dress
2001
01:31:18,173 --> 01:31:20,442
because of her eyes."
2002
01:31:21,910 --> 01:31:27,015
And then when I walked
past him in the church,
2003
01:31:27,082 --> 01:31:29,818
he said, "Is that Katie?"
2004
01:31:35,658 --> 01:31:37,993
[sniffling]
2005
01:31:39,061 --> 01:31:43,732
- It was agonizing to watch him
2006
01:31:43,799 --> 01:31:46,234
go through that experience.
2007
01:31:49,938 --> 01:31:52,841
It was really tough.
2008
01:31:52,908 --> 01:31:55,010
She was so full of life.
2009
01:31:55,077 --> 01:31:57,580
- We wave to her
from this shore
2010
01:31:57,646 --> 01:32:01,316
as she drifts out of our lives.
2011
01:32:03,852 --> 01:32:06,354
What a legacy she leaves us.
2012
01:32:06,421 --> 01:32:11,393
- It still,
to this day, kills me
2013
01:32:11,459 --> 01:32:13,929
for her to be gone.
2014
01:32:15,130 --> 01:32:19,167
She was my dearest friend
and my mommy.
2015
01:32:19,234 --> 01:32:23,505
- Under a June blue sky
waving her scarf to greet us.
2016
01:32:23,572 --> 01:32:26,441
- I just had
this vision of June.
2017
01:32:26,508 --> 01:32:29,978
Almost her whole life
flashed before me.
2018
01:32:30,045 --> 01:32:32,748
And I almost felt
like this song
2019
01:32:32,815 --> 01:32:37,319
just--she just dropped it in
my lap as she was flying over.
2020
01:32:37,385 --> 01:32:40,823
Like, here, I'm going
to give you one more thing.
2021
01:32:40,889 --> 01:32:44,359
And I wrote this song called
"The Strong Hand."
2022
01:32:44,426 --> 01:32:47,896
* She was a strong hand *
2023
01:32:47,963 --> 01:32:50,866
* A good sister
and a daughter *
2024
01:32:50,933 --> 01:32:53,068
- I was standing
next to John Carter.
2025
01:32:53,135 --> 01:32:55,037
And I had my arm around him.
2026
01:32:55,103 --> 01:32:57,873
- Lisa Kristofferson
was there to support me.
2027
01:32:57,940 --> 01:33:00,743
- At one point,
his knees were collapsing.
2028
01:33:00,809 --> 01:33:02,745
And he's a large man.
2029
01:33:02,811 --> 01:33:04,046
- It's like
she could tell right
2030
01:33:04,112 --> 01:33:05,480
when I emotionally cracked,
2031
01:33:05,547 --> 01:33:07,149
because I did
emotionally crack.
2032
01:33:07,215 --> 01:33:12,955
- And I heard June say,
"I'm right here, son."
2033
01:33:13,021 --> 01:33:17,760
- * And it's a miracle *
2034
01:33:17,826 --> 01:33:19,862
* How one soul finds another *
2035
01:33:19,928 --> 01:33:21,630
- And I had
this super strength,
2036
01:33:21,697 --> 01:33:23,632
I held up this huge man.
2037
01:33:23,699 --> 01:33:27,970
- Lisa held me with such love.
2038
01:33:28,036 --> 01:33:31,606
Lisa held on
to me like a mother.
2039
01:33:31,674 --> 01:33:35,010
- * As they walk
this world together *
2040
01:33:35,077 --> 01:33:37,913
- She was a holder upper
in that moment,
2041
01:33:37,980 --> 01:33:39,882
you know, in a dimension
that I don't
2042
01:33:39,948 --> 01:33:41,483
really know or understand.
2043
01:33:41,549 --> 01:33:44,419
But there is no doubt
in my mind that it was real.
2044
01:33:44,486 --> 01:33:46,388
***
2045
01:33:46,454 --> 01:33:49,157
- After June died,
John would call me a lot.
2046
01:33:49,224 --> 01:33:51,493
And he was really down.
2047
01:33:51,559 --> 01:33:53,595
And I could tell.
2048
01:33:53,662 --> 01:33:58,300
And, you know, we'd talk
about this thing or that thing.
2049
01:33:58,366 --> 01:34:00,435
But what he was
really wanting to do was
2050
01:34:00,502 --> 01:34:04,006
get somebody to take his mind
off of the whole thing.
2051
01:34:04,072 --> 01:34:06,008
***
2052
01:34:06,074 --> 01:34:07,976
- He really struggled.
2053
01:34:08,043 --> 01:34:11,013
I mean, all of us children
were holding our breaths,
2054
01:34:11,079 --> 01:34:13,481
like he's not going
to last long without her.
2055
01:34:13,548 --> 01:34:16,584
And he didn't.
He lasted four months.
2056
01:34:16,651 --> 01:34:18,386
***
2057
01:34:18,453 --> 01:34:20,422
- One of the last things
he wrote
2058
01:34:20,488 --> 01:34:23,191
on a plain piece of paper was,
2059
01:34:23,258 --> 01:34:26,561
"I love June Carter.
2060
01:34:26,628 --> 01:34:29,698
"She is an angel.
2061
01:34:29,765 --> 01:34:31,199
I am not."
2062
01:34:31,266 --> 01:34:33,535
- * Oh, it's a sad thing *
2063
01:34:33,601 --> 01:34:37,472
- Here she is right now,
Miss June Carter!
2064
01:34:37,539 --> 01:34:41,744
- * The other and fly up
where the voice rings *
2065
01:34:41,810 --> 01:34:44,747
- She was very special.
2066
01:34:44,813 --> 01:34:49,384
And, you know,
2067
01:34:49,451 --> 01:34:52,020
there's nobody
that can replace her.
2068
01:34:52,087 --> 01:34:54,322
***
2069
01:34:54,389 --> 01:34:57,559
- She was a very free spirit.
2070
01:34:57,625 --> 01:35:02,430
There was a great depth
of love of the people.
2071
01:35:02,497 --> 01:35:07,169
At the heart of it, there
is this enduring personality
2072
01:35:07,235 --> 01:35:12,340
that is there
of a young girl riding
2073
01:35:12,407 --> 01:35:14,542
on the back of a motorcycle.
2074
01:35:14,609 --> 01:35:20,082
- * For it's
a miracle how... *
2075
01:35:20,148 --> 01:35:21,950
- When you look
at little girls,
2076
01:35:22,017 --> 01:35:24,652
they're capable
of so much more.
2077
01:35:24,719 --> 01:35:30,125
And life is a series
of girdles, and corsets,
2078
01:35:30,192 --> 01:35:34,930
and bras,
and straitjackets, and gingham.
2079
01:35:34,997 --> 01:35:40,668
And sometimes, it takes
that little girl out of you.
2080
01:35:40,735 --> 01:35:43,105
- * I believe *
2081
01:35:43,171 --> 01:35:46,041
- But June was able
to tap into that.
2082
01:35:46,108 --> 01:35:51,847
And so she kept that little
girl growing and going.
2083
01:35:51,914 --> 01:35:56,051
But I think a lot of times,
we don't see that in women.
2084
01:35:56,118 --> 01:35:58,020
And we don't give them
the opportunity
2085
01:35:58,086 --> 01:36:01,489
to continue to develop
all those dreams
2086
01:36:01,556 --> 01:36:07,129
and wonderful things that
they thought as young girls.
2087
01:36:08,030 --> 01:36:13,501
- * I'm going to shout
and sing until heavens ring *
2088
01:36:13,568 --> 01:36:18,606
* When I'm bidding
this world goodbye *
2089
01:36:18,673 --> 01:36:21,609
It has 580 verses.
2090
01:36:21,676 --> 01:36:23,678
That's the way my family
always wrote songs,
2091
01:36:23,745 --> 01:36:26,248
just in case you wanted
to go sing two or three days
2092
01:36:26,314 --> 01:36:27,950
without stop.
2093
01:36:28,016 --> 01:36:29,985
That's what you did.
2094
01:36:30,052 --> 01:36:31,954
OK, we're pressing on.
2095
01:36:32,020 --> 01:36:35,023
[June Carter Cash's
"It's My Lazy Day"]
2096
01:36:35,090 --> 01:36:36,791
***
2097
01:36:36,859 --> 01:36:38,660
* Well, I might
have gone fishing *
2098
01:36:38,726 --> 01:36:40,395
all: * Might have
gone fishing *
2099
01:36:40,462 --> 01:36:41,596
- * I got to thinkin'
it over *
2100
01:36:41,663 --> 01:36:43,498
all: * Thinkin' it over *
2101
01:36:43,565 --> 01:36:46,701
- * The road to the river *
all: * Is a mighty long way *
2102
01:36:46,768 --> 01:36:49,371
- * It's a mighty long way,
it must be the season *
2103
01:36:49,437 --> 01:36:50,973
all: * Must be the season *
2104
01:36:51,039 --> 01:36:52,941
- * No rhyme or no reason *
2105
01:36:53,008 --> 01:36:55,743
all: * No rhyme or no reason *
- * I'm just taking it easy *
2106
01:36:55,810 --> 01:36:58,813
all: * It's my lazy day *
- * It's my lazy day *
2107
01:36:58,881 --> 01:37:01,483
* I'm finding it easy *
all: * Finding it easy *
2108
01:37:01,549 --> 01:37:04,419
- * To mind my own business *
all: * Mind my own business *
2109
01:37:04,486 --> 01:37:08,490
- * I'm keepin' my nose
out of everyone's way *
2110
01:37:08,556 --> 01:37:11,026
* Everyone's way,
just gonna look stupid *
2111
01:37:11,093 --> 01:37:13,761
all: * Gonna look stupid *
- * Don't wanna meet Cupid *
2112
01:37:13,828 --> 01:37:17,765
all: * Wanna meet Cupid *
- * Just taking it easy *
2113
01:37:17,832 --> 01:37:21,336
* It's my lazy day,
it's my lazy day *
2114
01:37:21,403 --> 01:37:26,208
***
2115
01:37:41,589 --> 01:37:43,425
* I ain't askin'
no questions *
2116
01:37:43,491 --> 01:37:45,961
all: * Askin' no questions *
- * I ain't givin' advices *
2117
01:37:46,028 --> 01:37:49,831
all: * Givin' advices *
- * I ain't doing no datin' *
2118
01:37:49,898 --> 01:37:52,467
all: * Ain't wanting to play *
- * Ain't wanting to play *
2119
01:37:52,534 --> 01:37:55,070
* I'm just gonna look stupid *
all: * Gonna look stupid *
2120
01:37:55,137 --> 01:37:58,073
- * I don't wanna meet Cupid *
all: * Wanna meet Cupid *
2121
01:37:58,140 --> 01:38:02,177
- * Just taking it easy,
it's my lazy day *
2122
01:38:02,244 --> 01:38:04,312
* It's my lazy day *
2123
01:38:08,483 --> 01:38:10,718
[rhythmic clapping]
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