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Welcome back to the story of maybe the
most famous marriage in Nashville:
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George Jones
and Tammy Wynette.
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They first got together
when country was blowing up,
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crossing over
into the mainstream culture.
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Some of their biggest hits
were about marriage,
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even when their own
was falling apart.
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♪ We're gonna hold on ♪
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♪ We're gonna hold on ♪
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♪ To each other ♪
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The marriage didn't last
long, about six years,
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but they kept producing
big hits for decades.
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Despite death threats,
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drug problems,
and new spouses,
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they always seemed to find
their way back to each other.
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I got to witness a little
of this near the end.
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Tammy did the voice
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of Hank Hill's mom
on King of the Hill.
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Don't tell me you're
uncomfortable with the thought
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of me and Gary sleeping
in the same room.
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I didn't have
that thought, Mom.
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You put
that thought in my...
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And I heard from her that George
could do a mean Donald Duck,
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under certain conditions.
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We'll get to that later.
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Tammy was a beautiful lady,
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and George was a great man.
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He just had... some demons.
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You knew when he was messed up
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when he didn't have
that hair sprayed down.
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That hair would get
all over his face,
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I mean, everywhere.
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But when he was straight,
he was so particular.
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He would use
a whole can of hairspray.
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It would be so stiff,
I said, "George,
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a bug couldn't even fly
on your head."
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Wayne Oliver
was 20 years old
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when George and Tammy got married
and started performing together.
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He spent much of his career
booking their shows.
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We were playing
up in Washington, DC,
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and we were headed
to Logan, Ohio.
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I said, "George, let's go. Let's
go to the hotel, spend the night.
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We'll fly there in the morning." He
said, "No, I wanna ride the bus."
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I said, "Uh-oh." When he said
he wanted to ride the bus
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and didn't fly, I knew
something was going on.
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So I told the bus driver
and the band,
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I said, "Don't let him off the bus
till you get to Logan, Ohio."
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♪ ♪
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So the next morning, all the band
members were standing around the bus,
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and I said, "What's wrong?"
They said, "George is gone."
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I said, "What?" They said, "Yeah,
we woke up and he was gone."
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I said, "Shit, we've got
this show out here,
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and it's gonna be
25,000 to 30,000 people."
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And they said, "Well,
he was walking down thataway."
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So I went down there, walking,
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and I seen two little ladies
out in the front yard.
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And I said, "Ma'am,
have y'all seen George Jones?"
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She said, "Well, he just left.
Nicest man in the world.
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Fact, we had two bottles
of wine." I said, "What?"
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She said, "Yeah," said, "He
come by, and he was thirsty."
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And I said, "Can you
tell me where he went?"
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She said, "Well, he was gonna go
right down here to the cab stand."
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I said,
"Thank you very much."
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So I went down there and the
cab driver said, "Yeah."
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He said, "George got
in a cab about an hour ago.
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Said he's headed to Nashville."
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I said, "Holy shit.
George is gone."
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I said, "I don't know
what we're gonna do."
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And you seen those people had
been out there all day, drinking.
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And we'd seen
some pretty nice fights,
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and I said, "Look,
we've got a little problem."
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I said, "George is gone."
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And there was a DJ standing
over on the other side.
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He heard me say that,
and he went up on the stage
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and said, "George Jones is gone.
There's not gonna be a show."
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And I said, "Damn it." People
were tearing the stages down.
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They were throwing rocks
at the bus,
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cutting the tires on the bus.
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Lucky, I had a .38
with me in my briefcase.
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And just happened,
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a lot of Hell's Angels
come to the show.
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And I recognized one of 'em, and
I motioned for him to come over.
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And he come
to the side of the bus,
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I said, "Spook, you gotta
get our ass out of here.
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They're gonna kill all of us."
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He come over
on the motorcycles.
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We went out of there on the rims.
The tires had come off.
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A little later on,
I got a phone call
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that he was checked in the Holiday
Inn there in Panama City.
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George always thought
I had a bug on him,
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because I could find him
anywhere he went.
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And he would love
to go to some cheap hotel,
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just stay in there
and eat fried chicken
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and drink two or three fifths
of Evan Williams Whiskey.
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I'll never 'get. I went
and knocked on the door,
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and I said, "Room Service." And
he says, "I knew you'd find me."
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So I got him washed and got
that hair sprayed down,
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and we come back
to Logan, Ohio.
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And he went out there and done
about a two and a half hour show.
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He apologized
to the crowd he missed.
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He said, "You know how I am."
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Said, "I wanna thank
those two little old ladies
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for giving me those two
bottles of wine we dranked."
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I mean when Jones
turned it on,
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there was nobody
could touch him, brother.
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♪ Someday my day will come ♪
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♪ I won't need
a thing at all ♪
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♪ I can stand proud and tall ♪
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♪ And say just what I feel... ♪
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George's talent was
giant, indisputable.
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His commitment was
another thing.
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His wife, Tammy, and all
those who worked with him
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were enamored by his voice,
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but also living
at the mercy of his drinking.
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She would
laugh about it then...
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...but it was so horrendous
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that he was so drunk, and
he was wrecking the house.
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And she was afraid
he was gonna go out
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and get in the car, and have
a car accident or whatever.
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Janette and
Nanette Smith, sisters,
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rode the bus with George
and Tammy for years,
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doing hair and makeup
on the road and in the studio.
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This was probably during
the gypsy shag era.
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This would be
a little up-do for her.
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This is called
a page boy.
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The Smith sisters weren't
allowed to touch George's hair.
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That was Tammy's job.
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I'd say, "George,
do you want me to do your hair?"
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"No, I'll wait on
my hairdresser.
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Tammy's hair.
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The girls would, however, conspire
with Tammy to keep Jones off the bottle.
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Tammy calls me and she said
to George at home,
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"George, that was Jan. Her yardman
is sick, she needs a yardman.
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You know how that yard of hers is.
It can't go a week. Da-da-da."
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So she calls me in a few
minutes, and she says,
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"Don't get near a window.
Don't get near a door.
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Don't peep out, but when you get
a chance, look at your yardman."
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I look out. George
Jones is out there
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in a wifebeater,
a pair of shorts,
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some tennis shoes,
a ball cap,
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taking all of his rakes, cutters
and things out of his car.
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He didn't give a damn.
He wanted to be a yardman.
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He worked on my
yard for three hours.
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It was more perfect
than it ever has been.
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And he had a big
number-one record then.
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So when he started to get
in the truck and leave,
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I opened the door
and I was like,
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"Aren't you gonna autograph
it?" He was like...
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Tammy called me
and asked me
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to come and look for him.
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I found him one time,
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12 or one o'clock at night,
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I found him on
one of those back roads
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when he'd pulled over
to throw up.
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He was hanging
out of the car,
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his head almost touching
the ground, passed out,
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with the door open
and the car running.
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I think I might have saved
his life at that time.
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Tammy finally got fed up
with George's drinking,
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and to retaliate, she had
fed him some poisoned food.
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And it was
moldy cornbread,
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sour beans,
and rotten potatoes.
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George got to throwing up
for a few days
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and had stomach problems,
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and he said that
she poisoned him,
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'cause was going
to collect that insurance.
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And I said, "George, you know, it
could've been something you eat."
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This is the sort of thing
that Tammy had to endure,
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because there was no controlling
Jones, and he just didn't give a shit.
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You may recall gonzo
journalist, Jimmy McDonough,
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one of the last to interview Tammy
about her time with George.
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At one point, Tammy alleges
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that George came home
from a bender,
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he threw a punch
at her and missed.
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She got him into bed,
and he woke up
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and proceeded to go berserk.
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She said he pointed a rifle in her
direction and fired at her...
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...and destroyed
the contents of the house.
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I got there,
and he is wilder than a buck,
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had hair everywhere.
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Finally, we took
the gun away from him,
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and he said, "I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I don't know why I did it."
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He ended up being dragged
away in a straight jacket,
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where he spent
10 days drying out.
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Tammy reached
her end point.
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I have never seen
a more terrified human being,
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but she...
by golly, she did it.
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That was the end.
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Tammy wouldn't
let him come home,
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and the marriage was over.
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The great storybook romance
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that Tammy dreamed of
was no more.
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The split had ramifications
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beyond their love for each
other and the children.
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Having Mr. and Mrs.
Country Music break up,
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well, that's bad for business.
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No question about whether or not
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her career or his career
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might be hurt by their divorce,
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and of course,
how to divide up the band.
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The Jones
Boys... real brothers,
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Don, Gary,
and Arnie Adams...
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had been with George
and Tammy from the beginning,
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alongside a rotating door
of fellow Jones boys,
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musicians like singer-songwriter
Johnny Paycheck
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and George's closest friend,
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songwriter and guitar player,
Peanutt Montgomery.
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When I was a Jones Boy,
traveling with him,
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I drank beer, you know.
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I never could understand
how George could drink
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and sit for six or eight hours
and never go to the bathroom.
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You know, he must've
been wearing Depends.
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Sometimes he'd
lock the bathroom door,
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you know, when I needed
to use the bathroom.
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I broke him of that.
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I'd go back in his bedroom
and pee on the floor.
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When the marriage ended,
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the situation
on the road changed.
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How did the Jones boys
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end up with Tammy?
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That was in the divorce.
Oh, okay, yeah.
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Tammy got custody of the band.
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The band all went
with Tammy,
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the bus went with Tammy,
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because she was the one
that they could depend on,
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and they actually liked her.
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In 1976, Tammy went
back out on the road
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without George Jones
for the first time in years.
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We're on the bus, and Tammy
said, "What if nobody comes?"
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We all fell out laughing, 'cause she thought
they were coming to see George Jones.
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She was so scared
every night.
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"What if nobody shows up?
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What if they want Jones
to be here?"
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They
kept screaming, "Where's George?"
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And James Holly... He
was the bass player.
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And he went up
to the microphone and said,
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"We don't know
where George is,
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and he doesn't either." "And
he doesn't either."
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After the divorce,
certain of George's fans
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wanted to vent
their anger at Tammy,
240
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and she was,
in some cases, ridiculed.
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She was pretty gutsy.
She was real gutsy.
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If we could've just
excluded men from her life,
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she'd still be alive and be the
biggest star in the world.
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After Tammy left George,
George was a mess.
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We'd hunt, we'd camp out.
246
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He just liked to do things.
247
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He threw out in the river one day
and caught a little bitty bream,
248
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and he said, "Oh, Peanutt, the fish
are out in the middle of the river."
249
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That was not
a bream he caught.
250
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He caught a catfish
about this long.
251
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Anyway, when he'd go fishing, it
wound up costing him a fortune.
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Said, "We gotta
go get a boat."
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So they took off to the sporting
goods place and bought a boat.
254
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And then he realized he had to
have something to pull it with,
255
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so they went down to the Chevrolet
place and bought a new truck.
256
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He sent me to the grocery
store to get folding chairs,
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and cooking pots
and pans, and food.
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♪ ♪
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And so we got the truck
and the boat all together,
260
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and pulled it down
to the river.
261
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He'd dig a hole and put corn...
262
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wrap it up in tin foil,
bury it in the ground,
263
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and build a fire in there on
coals and roast that corn.
264
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I don't know where he learned
to do all this stuff. Indians.
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With the exception
of the expense,
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these nature sojourns
worked out pretty well,
267
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until Peanutt found God
and decided to get sober.
268
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George went the other way.
269
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By then, he'd begun
playing music again
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with his only connection
to Tammy, the Jones Boys.
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George would jerk out
a bag of cocaine there,
272
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and then he would just get
completely stoned, totally.
273
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This newfound
high apparently caused
274
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some kind of psychotic break
in George,
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which lead
to multiple personalities...
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well, two personalities:
The duck and the old man.
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The duck came first.
Yeah.
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And the old man came later, so
he'd have somebody to talk to.
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He'd sit up all night long,
sitting in there in the bed,
280
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and he would be talking
in the Donald Duck voice.
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When he'd get in a car
and he was drinking,
282
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he would talk
like Donald Duck.
283
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Then he'd talk
like the old man.
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I don't believe in it.
It ain't natural.
285
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And then they'd get in a fight,
and then he'd get between them.
286
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If the good Lord meant for us to
read, we'd be born knowing how!
287
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And he wouldn't be paying
no attention where he was going.
288
00:13:21,879 --> 00:13:23,711
You know, George had
a lot of wrecks.
289
00:13:26,169 --> 00:13:27,876
One day,
we were on the bus,
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going down the road
with the band,
291
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and he decided he wanted
to get rid of the duck,
292
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- so he kicked him off the bus.
- No, no, no, no!
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And he went on
down the road a while,
294
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and he got
to worrying about it.
295
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He'd done kicked
the duck off the bus,
296
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and it was his best friend.
297
00:13:42,702 --> 00:13:44,202
So he made
the driver turn around,
298
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and go back
and pick up the duck,
299
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put him back on the bus.
300
00:13:50,741 --> 00:13:52,948
That's when we...
we convinced ourselves,
301
00:13:52,948 --> 00:13:54,780
"Boys, we've got
to do something with him."
302
00:13:54,780 --> 00:13:56,863
"You know, we can't
go on with you, uh,
303
00:13:56,863 --> 00:14:00,736
being so distraught over Tammy,
and you can't even perform."
304
00:14:00,736 --> 00:14:03,735
And we convinced him that he
should sign up with Tammy
305
00:14:03,735 --> 00:14:07,357
just so he could be back somewhere
in association with her.
306
00:14:07,357 --> 00:14:11,939
One song that George and Tammy did
after the divorce was "Golden Rings."
307
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It was a true story.
308
00:14:13,230 --> 00:14:15,687
They have a ring
they found in a pawn shop,
309
00:14:15,687 --> 00:14:18,020
and ended up
with a broken marriage.
310
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And I think that affected
the fans greatly
311
00:14:20,643 --> 00:14:24,142
because it had so much
personal tragedy in it.
312
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♪ In a pawnshop
in Chicago ♪
313
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♪ On a sunny summer day ♪
314
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♪ A couple gazes at the wedding
rings there on display ♪
315
00:14:35,845 --> 00:14:38,219
♪ She smiles
and nods at him ♪
316
00:14:38,219 --> 00:14:41,093
♪ As he says,
"Honey, that's for you ♪
317
00:14:41,093 --> 00:14:45,632
♪ It's not much, but it's
the best that I can do" ♪
318
00:14:46,756 --> 00:14:49,380
♪ Golden rings ♪
319
00:14:49,380 --> 00:14:51,921
♪ With one tiny
little stone... ♪
320
00:14:51,921 --> 00:14:54,004
You know,
the beautiful thing is,
321
00:14:54,004 --> 00:14:58,043
that in spite of all
this crazy, crazy stuff,
322
00:14:58,043 --> 00:15:01,624
they managed to keep it
together as artists.
323
00:15:01,624 --> 00:15:03,291
And you listen
to that song,
324
00:15:03,291 --> 00:15:08,205
you get the whole picture of everything
they're about in one record.
325
00:15:08,205 --> 00:15:09,454
There's nothing like it.
326
00:15:09,454 --> 00:15:13,161
♪ ♪
327
00:15:13,161 --> 00:15:15,493
We get along better now
than we ever have.
328
00:15:15,493 --> 00:15:17,534
I'll never get George
Jones out of my life.
329
00:15:17,534 --> 00:15:18,951
He'll always be
a part of my life.
330
00:15:18,951 --> 00:15:20,533
He was my idol.
He still is.
331
00:15:20,533 --> 00:15:21,782
We may not
can live together,
332
00:15:21,782 --> 00:15:24,614
but he can still make me cry,
listening to him sing.
333
00:15:24,614 --> 00:15:25,822
♪ ♪
334
00:15:25,822 --> 00:15:28,946
♪ A couple gazes at ♪
335
00:15:28,946 --> 00:15:34,776
♪ The wedding rings
there on display ♪
336
00:15:34,776 --> 00:15:37,692
Unfortunately, "Golden
Ring" was a mirage,
337
00:15:37,692 --> 00:15:39,899
a fantasy for the stage.
338
00:15:39,899 --> 00:15:42,523
Backstage, George was
treated to the sight
339
00:15:42,523 --> 00:15:45,938
of a variety of men courting his ex-wife.
340
00:15:45,938 --> 00:15:47,771
Tammy Wynette
had to be in love,
341
00:15:47,771 --> 00:15:50,894
and it was very easy
for her to get a man,
342
00:15:50,894 --> 00:15:53,227
because she was
Tammy Wynette.
343
00:15:53,227 --> 00:15:55,101
There was Johnny Rodriguez.
344
00:15:55,101 --> 00:15:57,808
There was a guy
that drove our bus.
345
00:15:57,808 --> 00:16:00,640
I dated the bass player,
she had her way with him.
346
00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:03,346
I dated Michael Tomlin,
she married him.
347
00:16:03,346 --> 00:16:04,846
She stole all my boyfriends.
348
00:16:04,846 --> 00:16:07,761
One of the people that she fell
in love with was Burt Reynolds.
349
00:16:07,761 --> 00:16:10,301
Burt Reynolds had a horse
ranch in Jupiter, Florida,
350
00:16:10,301 --> 00:16:15,008
so Tammy decided that she wanted to
buy a second house to be near Burt.
351
00:16:15,008 --> 00:16:17,007
When she fell in love
with somebody,
352
00:16:17,007 --> 00:16:20,131
she would pursue it
to the ends of the earth.
353
00:16:20,131 --> 00:16:22,463
She was pursued
publicly as well
354
00:16:22,463 --> 00:16:23,921
by the rich
and the powerful,
355
00:16:23,921 --> 00:16:27,294
who just wanted to be seen
as the man by her side.
356
00:16:27,294 --> 00:16:31,501
Every politician in the world wanted to
stand there singing, "Stand By Your Man."
357
00:16:31,501 --> 00:16:33,500
So one day, she's standing
by the side of George Wallace,
358
00:16:33,500 --> 00:16:36,290
and the next day, she's
standing beside Ronald Reagan.
359
00:16:36,290 --> 00:16:37,957
Well, we're
in Jackson, Mississippi,
360
00:16:37,957 --> 00:16:41,246
and Ronald Reagan would always kiss her
on the cheek at the end of the song.
361
00:16:41,246 --> 00:16:43,411
Well, Ronald Reagan
kissed her in the mouth.
362
00:16:43,411 --> 00:16:48,243
She come off, she's furious. She
went, "He swabbed my tonsils, Jan.
363
00:16:48,243 --> 00:16:52,324
He almost gagged me.
I am putting an end to this."
364
00:16:52,324 --> 00:16:54,823
And she got
this huge red dress
365
00:16:54,823 --> 00:16:56,697
that she was gonna wear
to the White House.
366
00:16:56,697 --> 00:17:00,279
So she goes on the stage, she does
"Stand By Your Man" at the end.
367
00:17:00,279 --> 00:17:03,778
Well, she usually goes out in the
audience and gets a man to stand by.
368
00:17:03,778 --> 00:17:06,318
The president is
sitting there, just grinning,
369
00:17:06,318 --> 00:17:08,151
with his wife
sitting by him,
370
00:17:08,151 --> 00:17:10,150
and everybody knew
how jealous she was.
371
00:17:10,150 --> 00:17:14,648
And all of a sudden, Tammy sits down in
his lap, puts her arm around his neck.
372
00:17:14,648 --> 00:17:17,521
The Secret Service perks up,
everybody perks up.
373
00:17:17,521 --> 00:17:20,021
I thought I was gonna die.
374
00:17:20,021 --> 00:17:21,895
Then they go in the dressing
room, and she said,
375
00:17:21,895 --> 00:17:24,019
"Bet I don't have to stand
by him anymore."
376
00:17:26,185 --> 00:17:28,892
The seemingly endless
string of men in her life,
377
00:17:28,892 --> 00:17:31,389
of course,
fueled George's demons,
378
00:17:31,389 --> 00:17:33,931
but Tammy had
her own peculiar problems,
379
00:17:33,931 --> 00:17:37,180
according to their daughter,
Tamala Georgette Jones.
380
00:17:37,180 --> 00:17:38,428
We started having death threats
381
00:17:38,428 --> 00:17:40,761
on my grandparents,
on me, on my mom.
382
00:17:40,761 --> 00:17:42,094
We went bowling one night,
383
00:17:42,094 --> 00:17:44,010
and someone had broken
into our house
384
00:17:44,010 --> 00:17:46,092
and turned on every
faucet and bathtub,
385
00:17:46,092 --> 00:17:48,507
so that when we got home,
our entire house was flooded.
386
00:17:48,507 --> 00:17:51,756
And on every TV and mirror,
any type of reflective surface,
387
00:17:51,756 --> 00:17:55,712
they had taken red lipstick
and written, "Slut, whore, pig,"
388
00:17:55,712 --> 00:17:57,253
all throughout the entire house.
389
00:17:57,253 --> 00:18:00,877
Multiple instances like this that
had happened over several months.
390
00:18:00,877 --> 00:18:03,792
My assumption was always
that it had been
391
00:18:03,792 --> 00:18:06,874
a disgruntled fan
of George Jones'
392
00:18:06,874 --> 00:18:09,956
who was mad at Tammy
for divorcing George.
393
00:18:09,956 --> 00:18:11,371
She asked me to come over,
394
00:18:11,371 --> 00:18:13,704
and she had thoughtfully
provided me a shotgun,
395
00:18:13,704 --> 00:18:15,453
which I placed under the bed
396
00:18:15,453 --> 00:18:17,744
in case some prowler
came through,
397
00:18:17,744 --> 00:18:18,869
but nothing happened.
398
00:18:18,869 --> 00:18:20,701
And the same thing
the next night,
399
00:18:20,701 --> 00:18:22,035
nothing happened,
400
00:18:22,035 --> 00:18:24,532
so I didn't go back over there
to spend the night anymore,
401
00:18:24,532 --> 00:18:26,531
but a few days later,
402
00:18:26,531 --> 00:18:28,406
somebody firebombed the house.
403
00:18:29,614 --> 00:18:31,071
I was in my mom's bedroom,
404
00:18:31,071 --> 00:18:32,404
and the house
caught on fire there,
405
00:18:32,404 --> 00:18:34,112
and the whole back
of the house burned down.
406
00:18:34,112 --> 00:18:36,028
Tennessee fire marshal decided
407
00:18:36,028 --> 00:18:39,484
to have polygraph tests of
everybody that had been there.
408
00:18:39,484 --> 00:18:44,398
And they tested Tammy, said, "She might
have had something to do with this."
409
00:18:44,398 --> 00:18:48,189
And they tested her daughters,
who were teenagers at best.
410
00:18:48,189 --> 00:18:49,938
And each time
they would test one,
411
00:18:49,938 --> 00:18:52,270
they'd say,
"She did it. We've got it."
412
00:18:52,270 --> 00:18:54,895
Then they tested
her mother, Mildred.
413
00:18:54,895 --> 00:18:57,392
"Mildred must have had
something to do with this."
414
00:18:57,392 --> 00:19:00,266
And her grandmother,
who could hardly walk,
415
00:19:00,266 --> 00:19:02,057
and said, "She was involved."
416
00:19:02,057 --> 00:19:07,388
After that, I became very
skeptical of any polygraph test.
417
00:19:07,388 --> 00:19:11,469
All sorts of bizarre, unexplained
incidents happened in Tammy's life.
418
00:19:11,469 --> 00:19:13,802
You know,
there's the alleged kidnapping.
419
00:19:13,802 --> 00:19:15,759
No one was
ever arrested in that.
420
00:19:15,759 --> 00:19:17,884
There was always people
out to get her
421
00:19:17,884 --> 00:19:20,549
or some espionage around Tammy,
422
00:19:20,549 --> 00:19:23,590
which was never really,
uh, explained away.
423
00:19:23,590 --> 00:19:26,880
Tammy would eventually
remarry yet another manager
424
00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:30,961
and develop her own lethal addiction
to prescription pain killers.
425
00:19:30,961 --> 00:19:34,002
George hit his own rock bottom
after losing Tammy,
426
00:19:34,002 --> 00:19:36,126
the duck, the old man,
427
00:19:36,126 --> 00:19:37,833
and then losing
his best friend,
428
00:19:37,833 --> 00:19:40,331
Peanutt Montgomery,
to organized religion.
429
00:19:40,331 --> 00:19:44,080
George was really upset because
Peanutt had become a Christian.
430
00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:46,079
He was jealous
of Jesus.
431
00:19:46,079 --> 00:19:48,161
George began
to get mad at Peanutt,
432
00:19:48,161 --> 00:19:52,243
because he wouldn't go do concerts,
wouldn't go places to gamble,
433
00:19:52,243 --> 00:19:54,950
so I was at home,
and George called the house.
434
00:19:54,950 --> 00:19:56,491
He said,
"Where's Little Jesus?"
435
00:19:56,491 --> 00:19:58,907
I said, "George,
what do you mean?"
436
00:19:58,907 --> 00:20:01,280
"You know what I mean.
Where's Little Jesus?
437
00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:03,654
"I want to get him down,
I'm gonna pull his beard out,
438
00:20:03,654 --> 00:20:06,194
one by one
with some tweezers."
439
00:20:06,194 --> 00:20:07,944
And I'd just hang up on him.
Well, after a while,
440
00:20:07,944 --> 00:20:10,526
Peanutt called me
and said they got to talking.
441
00:20:10,526 --> 00:20:13,441
And George asked Peanutt to
meet him down at Cypress Creek.
442
00:20:13,441 --> 00:20:15,607
When I got down there,
he was down there.
443
00:20:15,607 --> 00:20:18,481
I pulled up there, and he was
sitting there with the window down.
444
00:20:18,481 --> 00:20:21,521
And I pulled up beside him,
and I rolled my window down
445
00:20:21,521 --> 00:20:24,562
and hung my arms out
just like that, you know.
446
00:20:24,562 --> 00:20:27,019
I said, "George, what are
you persecuting me for?"
447
00:20:27,019 --> 00:20:30,142
He said, "People just don't
know what I go through with."
448
00:20:30,142 --> 00:20:33,432
And all at once, he just reached out
beside him and got that pistol.
449
00:20:33,432 --> 00:20:37,098
And he said, "I'm gonna see if you're
old God can save you now, you m-f'er."
450
00:20:37,098 --> 00:20:39,013
That's what he said,
the very words...
451
00:20:39,013 --> 00:20:40,721
only he said the word.
452
00:20:40,721 --> 00:20:43,469
And he shot at me,
pow, like that.
453
00:20:44,386 --> 00:20:46,969
He missed me,
and then he pulled
454
00:20:46,969 --> 00:20:50,008
that trigger back on that .38 again.
I could hear it.
455
00:20:50,008 --> 00:20:52,674
He just looked
at me like this, he said,
456
00:20:52,674 --> 00:20:55,923
"Well, Peanutt,
I'm going to the house,"
457
00:20:55,923 --> 00:20:58,879
like nothing had ever happened.
Just like that.
458
00:20:58,879 --> 00:21:01,419
He let his window up,
drove off.
459
00:21:01,419 --> 00:21:05,626
I went to the sheriff. I said, "George
Jones just took a shot at me,
460
00:21:05,626 --> 00:21:07,209
tried to kill me."
461
00:21:07,209 --> 00:21:10,958
I had one guy who took his knife and
dug the bullet out of the door.
462
00:21:10,958 --> 00:21:12,957
My friend was
the district attorney.
463
00:21:12,957 --> 00:21:16,039
We all partied together
and stuff, and he told me,
464
00:21:16,039 --> 00:21:18,453
"Well, you know,
he'll go off with 15 years,"
465
00:21:18,453 --> 00:21:21,410
he said, "because that's attempted murder.
That's a felony.
466
00:21:21,410 --> 00:21:22,993
"If you want to pursue him
467
00:21:22,993 --> 00:21:25,492
and convict him,
I'll convict him."
468
00:21:25,492 --> 00:21:28,950
But I dropped charges on him.
I dropped the charges.
469
00:21:28,950 --> 00:21:32,322
Believe it or not, there
is a happy ending to this story,
470
00:21:32,322 --> 00:21:35,488
but it's probably not the one
you're used to hearing.
471
00:21:35,488 --> 00:21:38,277
We put him in the hospital
and dried him out.
472
00:21:38,277 --> 00:21:43,400
And, uh, he called me, at home,
after about four or five weeks.
473
00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:46,067
He said, "I wanted to know if
you'd do an album with me?"
474
00:21:46,067 --> 00:21:48,148
I said,
"Yeah, I'd be glad to."
475
00:21:48,148 --> 00:21:50,356
He said, "I know
we ain't got no money now,
476
00:21:50,356 --> 00:21:52,688
"and things ain't looking good,
but if you'll stay with me,
477
00:21:52,688 --> 00:21:55,395
I've got a song that's
gonna bring us out of this."
478
00:21:55,395 --> 00:21:58,310
He had such confidence,
it convinced us.
479
00:21:58,310 --> 00:22:01,101
"Okay, George, then you
need to get in there.
480
00:22:01,101 --> 00:22:02,850
"Go to the studio,
you know,
481
00:22:02,850 --> 00:22:05,766
and get your voice back, get your
brain back, and record that."
482
00:22:05,766 --> 00:22:10,472
♪ I went to see
my friend today ♪
483
00:22:12,971 --> 00:22:18,218
♪ Oh and I didn't see
no tears ♪
484
00:22:19,510 --> 00:22:23,966
♪ All dressed up
to go away ♪
485
00:22:25,507 --> 00:22:31,170
♪ First time I'd seen him
smile in years ♪
486
00:22:32,462 --> 00:22:36,210
♪ He stopped
loving her today ♪
487
00:22:38,334 --> 00:22:44,082
♪ They placed a wreath
upon his door... ♪
488
00:22:44,082 --> 00:22:47,205
That just blew the tops
off the charts there
489
00:22:47,205 --> 00:22:49,704
and was absolutely
the biggest song
490
00:22:49,704 --> 00:22:51,411
for two solid years in a row.
491
00:22:51,411 --> 00:22:56,785
♪ But he stopped
loving her today... ♪
492
00:22:56,785 --> 00:22:58,325
George had
a lot of women,
493
00:22:58,325 --> 00:23:00,532
but he only loved one,
and that was Tammy.
494
00:23:00,532 --> 00:23:03,573
He might shoot up the house,
but he loved her.
495
00:23:03,573 --> 00:23:07,571
I've seen that man lay down and cry
at night how much he loved Tammy.
496
00:23:07,571 --> 00:23:10,070
I think they both had
an addiction problem.
497
00:23:10,070 --> 00:23:11,861
He was addicted
to alcohol,
498
00:23:11,861 --> 00:23:13,735
and Tammy
was addicted to Jones.
499
00:23:13,735 --> 00:23:17,691
♪ And it kept running
through my mind ♪
500
00:23:17,691 --> 00:23:22,023
♪ "Well, this time
he's over her for good" ♪
501
00:23:22,023 --> 00:23:24,730
My mom, even weeks
before she died,
502
00:23:24,730 --> 00:23:27,437
we had a conversation,
and she just flat out said,
503
00:23:27,437 --> 00:23:30,227
"The love of my life
will always be your dad.
504
00:23:30,227 --> 00:23:32,226
Your dad is that one for me."
505
00:23:32,226 --> 00:23:37,057
♪ But he stopped
loving her ♪
506
00:23:37,057 --> 00:23:40,222
♪ Today ♪
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