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- Oh, thank you very much.
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Needed that.
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♪ What's that music
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♪ That's playin' on the radio?
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♪ Say what's that music?
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♪ I hear it everywhere I go
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♪ I don't think I've ever seen
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♪ Another music that
could make me feel
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♪ Like that music
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♪ Playin' in my heart
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♪ Time to time the
darkness come along
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♪ To terrorize the weak
and challenge the strong
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♪ Storm is coming,
it grows on the waves
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♪ From Johannesburg
to Montego Bay
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♪ What's that music
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♪ Playin' on the radio?
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♪ What's that music?
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♪ I hear it and I got to know
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♪ And I don't think
I've ever heard
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♪ A sweeter feelin' in
the whole wide world
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♪ Than that music
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♪ Playin' in my heart
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♪ And justice is comin'
on the wings of the storm
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♪ We resist in the present
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♪ For those yet unborn
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♪ Freedom is spreading
it's wings like a bird
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♪ The message it carries
has got to be heard
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♪ What's that music
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♪ Playin' on the radio?
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♪ Hey, what's that music
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♪ Playin' everywhere I go?
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♪ I don't think I've ever heard
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♪ A sweeter feelin' in
the whole wide world
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♪ Than that music
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♪ Playin' in my heart
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- Two.
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- Yeah, I forget what Washington
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did on the Potomac, this
is the Potomac, God.
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Black folks will
sometimes refer to that
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as the Poto-mac.
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This is, this is the Potomac.
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Saw a duck floatin' out
there a little while ago,
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somebody said, yeah,
when Reagan is in charge
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we're all ducks.
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Dead ducks, you dig it?
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♪ Symbols of democracy
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♪ Are pinned against the coast
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♪ Outhouse of bureaucracy
surrounded by a moat
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♪ Citizens of poverty
are barely out of sight
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♪ The overlords
escape in the evening
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♪ The brothers on the night
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♪ Morning comes and
brings the tourists
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♪ Straining rubber necks
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♪ To catch a glimpse of
the cowboy makin' the world
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♪ A nervous wreck
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♪ It's a mass of irony
for all the world to see
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♪ It's the nation's capital,
it's Washington, D.C.
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♪ It's the nation's capital,
it's the nation's capital
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♪ it's the nation's capital,
it's Washington, D.C.
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♪ Mm-hmm
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- If I had to define myself,
and people often ask me,
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you know, what it is that I do,
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I would have to say that
I am a blues-ologist.
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And this is a
scientist's concern
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with the origins of the blues.
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Like, you know it's a science
'cause you see the "ology"
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on the end of it.
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This just makes
everything scientific.
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The way that I
got my background,
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and the things that make
me qualified for this
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is that first of all,
I was born in Chicago.
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Right on.
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And before I moved to D.C.,
I've been living in D.C. now
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for about 10 years, but
before I moved to D.C.
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I was certain that the only way
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you could get a head
start on everybody else
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in terms of the blues was
to be born in Chicago.
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'Cause like we went through
Chicago about 6 weeks ago,
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they said it was two degrees
and they were lookin' for them.
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So there's definitely,
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definitely the blues in Chicago.
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When I was eight
months old, I escaped,
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bag and baggage, to a town
called Jackson, Tennessee.
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And Jackson, Tennessee,
for those who do not know,
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is located about 85
miles east of Memphis.
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I was also about 50 miles
north of Mississippi.
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There was nothin' we
could do about that.
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We thought about movin' to town.
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'Cause they see,
when I was growin' up
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they used to have
this old joke, says,
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what has four eyes
and will never see?
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And the answer was
always "Mississippi."
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Most folks felt that Mississippi
was the home of the blues,
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and when I was being
raised down there,
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the people that we
listened to on the radio,
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like the folks we listened
to, popular people now,
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were the blues-icians.
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John Lee Hooker, Earl
Hooker, Jimmy Reed,
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Jimmy Witherspoon, Lightening
Hopkins, B.B. King,
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these were the people
everybody kept up with,
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and the blues was
the music of the day.
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When I was 13, I moved
to New York City.
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And I walked around for
about six months like...
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I couldn't believe
New York City,
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but they was zippin' every
which way simultaneously.
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Somebody told me the
other night, if you gave
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people from New York some speed,
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they would all go into a nod.
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You know, couldn't make it,
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too low-key for them.
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I mean, I still feel the
same way, I just learned
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to keep my mouth closed.
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It still amazed
the hell out of me.
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You know, but when
you move somewhere,
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the first thing
that you try to do
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is get in touch with
the music, you know,
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find out where the music is
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you're gonna be groovin' on, so,
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I set the radio on, turned it
all the way down to the right,
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over there where they keep
the black people's music.
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That's just a coincidence.
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Everywhere you go, we be
over in this corner here.
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You know, somewhere north
of 13th, you'll find...
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You know, turn over there.
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And I couldn't find
no black music.
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I could not find the blues,
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I was wondering what
the hell was goin' on.
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I said, well you know, I
come from Jackson, Tennessee,
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and this is New
York, maybe I need
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a longer radio.
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Turn, B.B. King is right
over there, right on
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the other side of 16.
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So I went out into the street,
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and I run into one of the
brothers on the avenue,
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I said brother, look
here, what's happening,
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where can I find the blues?
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He said, well hell, you
don't have to do nothin',
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just stand here.
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New York City.
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You don't have to be Sherlock
Holmes to find the blues.
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It'll find you.
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Did a poem called
"Painted Black,"
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'cause people used to ask
me what the difference was
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between Jackson, Tennessee
and New York City,
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and I'd say about
five, 600 miles.
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Truth was, it went a whole
lot deeper than that.
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And the description of the
poem was something like this,
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Picture a man of nearly 30,
who appears twice as old
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with clothes torn and dirty.
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Give him a job shining shoes
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or cleaning out toilets
with bus station crews.
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Give him six children
with nothing to eat,
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and expose him to life
on the ghetto street.
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Tie a little rag
around his wife's head
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and have her pregnant,
lying in bed.
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Stuff all eight of these
people in a D.C. house
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and then tell them how
bad things are down south.
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That was "Painted Black."
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- Hi.
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Got a rhythm comin' through
here, y'all comin' here
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it's like,
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♪ Them brother livin' in a cell
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♪ Doin' time at the county jail
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♪ Now you might think
your life is hell
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♪ But he told me
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♪ That's the first room
he ever had to himself
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♪ Stop and think about it, say
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♪ Waiting for the ax to fall
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♪ And sometimes, Lord,
I think that's all
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♪ So when your head
is in the noose
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♪ And won't nobody
turn you loose
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♪ You're waiting
for the ax to fall
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♪ What I said
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♪ Brother served in Vietnam
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♪ And found out
no on gives a damn
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♪ Agent Orange fell on his camp
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♪ Brother George was taken
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♪ Got a brother
lookin' for Uncle Sam
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♪ And saluting them you're
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♪ Waiting for the ax to fall
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♪ And sometimes, Lord,
I think that's all
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♪ 'Cause when your
head is on the block
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♪ And ain't no way
for you to stop
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♪ You're waiting
for the ax to fall
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♪ Sister on the welfare line
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♪ Was examining the
threads of her life
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♪ She never thought she'd
be cheatin' and lyin'
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♪ To make sure her
and her kids survive
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♪ She'd do anything
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♪ Waiting for the ax to fall
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♪ And sometimes, Lord,
I think that's all
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♪ Said when your
head is in a noose
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♪ And won't nobody
turn you loose
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♪ You're waiting
for the ax to fall
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♪ Nay, one more, say
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♪ Last night grandma
sure got shook
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♪ 'Cause someone
grabbed her pocketbook
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♪ She feel like
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♪ She ain't safe
in the neighborhood
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♪ 'Cause too many
young'ns up to no good
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♪ They sick and tired
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♪ Of waiting for the ax to fall
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♪ And sometimes, Lord,
I think that's all
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♪ Said when your
head is in the noose
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♪ And won't nobody
turn you loose
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♪ You're waiting
for the ax to fall
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♪ Seem like we're waiting
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♪ Standin' round and waiting
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♪ Worried but we're waiting
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♪ No bad down the way
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♪ Seem like we're waiting
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♪ Seem like we're waiting
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♪ Seem like we're waiting
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♪ And waiting, and
waiting, and waiting
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♪ Waiting for the ax to fall
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♪ And sometimes, Lord,
I think that's all
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♪ Said when your
head is on the block
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♪ Ain't no way for it to stop
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♪ You're waiting
for the ax to fall
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♪ It seem like we're waiting
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♪ Standing round and waiting
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♪ Nervous, but we're waiting
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♪ No bad time for the waiting
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♪ Seem like we're waiting
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♪ Seem like we're waiting
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♪ Seem like we, seem
like it, seem like it,
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♪ Seem like it
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♪ Oh, we're waiting
for the ax to fall
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♪ And sometimes, Lord
I think that's all
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♪ Said when your
head is in the noose
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♪ And won't nobody
turn you loose
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♪ You're waiting
for the ax to fall ♪
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- Thank you very much.
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Waiting for the ax to fall.
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♪ May not have the glitter
or the glamour of L.A.
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♪ It may not have the history
or the intrigue of Bombay
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♪ But when it comes
to makin' music
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♪ And sure enough makin' news
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♪ People who just
don't make sense
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♪ And people makin' do
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♪ Seems a mass of contradiction
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♪ Pulling different ways
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♪ Between the folks
have come and go
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♪ And the one's
who've got to stay
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♪ It's a mass of irony
for all the world to see
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♪ It's the nation's capital,
it's Washington, D.C.
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♪ It's the nation's capital,
it's the nation's capital
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♪ It's the nation's capital,
it's Washington, D.C. ♪
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- So I wanted to
contribute myself.
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I was writing down and puttin'
all the categories together,
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I ain't got no money, I
ain't got no job blues,
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I ain't got no woman blues,
then I said wait a minute,
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see I don't want to
waste no categories.
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The "I ain't got
no money" blues,
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the "I ain't got no job" blues,
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the "I ain't got
no woman" blues,
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hell, them the same thing.
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'Cause if I could get me a job,
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I could make me some money,
I could call me a lady.
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I'd be doin' a
whole bunch better.
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So I put them all in
the same category.
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But I wrote other
pieces of blues,
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blues information.
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Because what had
happened was that
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I had found out later
on, unfortunately,
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in my education about
people like Langston Hughes.
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About people like
Sterling Brown.
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About people like Countee
Cullen and Gene Tuma
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and Claude McKay.
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And these people
had taken the blues
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as a poetry form back
in the '20s and the '10s
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during the Harlem Renaissance,
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and they had
fine-tuned the blues.
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They sanded it down so it became
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a remarkable sort of art form.
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But what happened is
that in many instances
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we didn't learn about them.
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We learned about
the kind of poetry
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that nobody can understand,
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like on 17th street
and ninth avenue
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when I was a teenager,
man we didn't want
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to hear nothing about poetry.
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Somebody say something
about poetry,
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we say, oh yeah, where's he at?
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We don't know him.
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'Cause we into
shootin' the jumper.
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And that was damn near all.
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So in the ninth
grade, like a teacher
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sneaked up on up
us and put these
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pieces of paper on the
table, told everybody
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to read 'em, and then tell
her what we though about it.
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So I said, well it's all right.
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Said, I'll try it.
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I looked at the poem, poem said,
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"What now outside
the wall I see,
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"shadow of an image me."
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I said, God damn, I'm
gonna read this again.
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"What now outside the walls..."
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And at the back of
the room somebody say,
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hey, this must be deep.
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You know, like
this must be deep.
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It's like a drape that
we throw over everything.
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Like what "this
must be deep" means,
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like I recognize all of
these words individually...
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But damn if I can get anything
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out of the order in which
they currently appear.
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This must be deep.
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I mean, 'cause you
think it must be deep,
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it's in this book, you
say well why the hell
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would they put it in this book
if it didn't mean nothin'?
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'Cause on them, if you
read that and it don't
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mean nothin' to you, you say,
hey, this must be nonsense.
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But you don't wanna say that
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with the teacher standing
right next to you.
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Say, why you give me this?
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You know?
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So you say, hey,
this must be deep.
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And what happens is
that when a lot of folks
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get ready to write poetry,
that's what they decide
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they gonna be, deep.
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They decide they
gonna be poetic.
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So they come up to me, people
come up to me sometimes,
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say hey, read my poem.
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I read it.
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"What now outside
the wall I see."
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And all I can say to them
is hey, this must be deep.
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Because like being influenced
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by the kind of poetry
that we were all
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introduced to,
people feel as though
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the way to be poetic
is to make sure
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that there's
certain little parts
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that can't nobody understand.
333
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Why would you need a
poet to make things
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00:18:05,714 --> 00:18:08,216
more complex?
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Two winos can make
things more complex.
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One of 'em say to the other one,
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well, is...
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And the other one look at
him right serious and say,
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Yeah.
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And they communicated, you see?
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If communication is
what it's all about.
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As far as most people
sittin' around watching it,
343
00:18:33,324 --> 00:18:35,909
it could have been two poets
talkin' to one another.
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They didn't have a clue.
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So the idea became
not only to use ideas
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that were familiar to
people in the community,
347
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but to use the language that
everybody could understand.
348
00:18:46,754 --> 00:18:48,171
Course this poetry
was always put down
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00:18:48,172 --> 00:18:50,674
as street poetry, because,
of course, that's where
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the people were.
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People were on the street,
and those are the people
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that you wanna communicate with.
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Then an idea one
time about how often
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it is that folks brother
and sister one another,
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and how rare it is that
something actually comes
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out of that that
people can grasp onto.
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Did a poem about the
fact that oftentimes
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the people who were
doin' the most talkin'
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00:19:10,360 --> 00:19:12,528
in the conversations
that you run into
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around this neighborhood,
should be the ones
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doin' the most listenin'.
362
00:19:16,532 --> 00:19:19,243
Poem I did was called
"Billy Green is Dead."
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The economy's in an uproar,
364
00:19:23,372 --> 00:19:25,707
the whole damn
country's in the red.
365
00:19:25,708 --> 00:19:27,500
The tax affairs
is goin' up, what?
366
00:19:27,501 --> 00:19:30,545
You say Billy Green is dead?
367
00:19:30,546 --> 00:19:32,380
The government can't
decide on bussin',
368
00:19:32,381 --> 00:19:33,965
or at least that's
what they said,
369
00:19:33,966 --> 00:19:35,717
yeah I heard you
when you told me,
370
00:19:35,718 --> 00:19:37,969
you said that Billy
Green was dead,
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00:19:37,970 --> 00:19:39,845
but let me tell you
about these hot pants
372
00:19:39,846 --> 00:19:42,723
that this beg-legged sister
wore when I was partying
373
00:19:42,724 --> 00:19:43,891
the other night,
374
00:19:43,892 --> 00:19:45,976
what you say, Billy
took an overdose?
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00:19:45,977 --> 00:19:48,061
Well now, junkies
will be junkies,
376
00:19:48,062 --> 00:19:50,272
but did you see
Gunsmoke last night?
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00:19:50,273 --> 00:19:51,857
Man they had
themselves a shootout
378
00:19:51,858 --> 00:19:53,442
and folks was dyin'
left and right.
379
00:19:53,443 --> 00:19:55,736
At the end when Matt
was cornered I had damn
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00:19:55,737 --> 00:19:56,987
near give up hope.
381
00:19:56,988 --> 00:19:58,655
Why you keep on interrupting me?
382
00:19:58,656 --> 00:20:00,407
You say my son is taking dope?
383
00:20:00,408 --> 00:20:02,366
Well then call the law
and call the doctor,
384
00:20:02,367 --> 00:20:03,951
what you mean I
shouldn't scream?
385
00:20:03,952 --> 00:20:05,453
My only son is on narcotics,
386
00:20:05,454 --> 00:20:07,246
should I stand here
like I'm pleased?
387
00:20:07,247 --> 00:20:08,831
Is that familiar to anybody?
388
00:20:08,832 --> 00:20:10,583
Check out what's
inside your head.
389
00:20:10,584 --> 00:20:12,168
You see, it never
seems to matter
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00:20:12,169 --> 00:20:15,171
when it's Billy
Green who's dead.
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00:20:16,632 --> 00:20:19,133
We'd like to include y'all
in on a party if we could.
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00:20:19,134 --> 00:20:22,845
Brother Robert Gordon, who is
our secretary of entertainment
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00:20:22,846 --> 00:20:26,891
has been responsible
for the vibe-mosphere.
394
00:20:29,185 --> 00:20:30,894
That's a combination
of the vibrations
395
00:20:30,895 --> 00:20:32,979
and the atmosphere, you see,
396
00:20:32,980 --> 00:20:35,607
that permeates everything.
397
00:20:38,694 --> 00:20:40,862
Truth is that sometimes
the rhythm needs
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00:20:40,863 --> 00:20:42,990
to establish the party,
399
00:20:45,576 --> 00:20:48,370
and we do have parties
from time to time.
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00:20:48,371 --> 00:20:51,205
In case there are those
of you who did not
401
00:20:51,206 --> 00:20:54,124
receive your invitation,
402
00:20:54,125 --> 00:20:57,920
it would've read
something like this.
403
00:20:57,921 --> 00:20:58,797
♪ Well the rhymin' G
404
00:20:58,798 --> 00:21:00,047
♪ Is the man to see
405
00:21:00,048 --> 00:21:04,511
♪ Mother, RSVP, wanna
party, party, party
406
00:21:11,977 --> 00:21:14,185
♪ The rhymin' G
is the man to see
407
00:21:14,186 --> 00:21:16,229
♪ Mother, RSVP
408
00:21:16,230 --> 00:21:20,359
♪ Wanna party, party, party
409
00:21:23,988 --> 00:21:25,405
See, we wanna have
the kind of parties
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00:21:25,406 --> 00:21:27,073
where everybody can BYOT,
411
00:21:27,074 --> 00:21:29,742
you know "bring your own thang."
412
00:21:29,743 --> 00:21:32,495
And we don't like to place
too many restrictions on folks
413
00:21:32,496 --> 00:21:34,914
but we do like to say
you got to be, well,
414
00:21:34,915 --> 00:21:38,250
a skull and crossbones.
415
00:21:38,251 --> 00:21:40,127
You see the skull and crossbones
416
00:21:40,128 --> 00:21:42,879
can sneak up on you sometimes.
417
00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:45,882
You at the party laying back,
being cool as you like to do
418
00:21:45,883 --> 00:21:47,926
most of the time,
419
00:21:47,927 --> 00:21:49,928
and all of a sudden
there's a hint
420
00:21:49,929 --> 00:21:52,806
of a scent of mint
421
00:21:52,807 --> 00:21:55,225
movin' through the air.
422
00:21:55,226 --> 00:21:58,937
And skull and crossbones.
423
00:22:00,647 --> 00:22:02,732
You see the only thing
that we have against
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00:22:02,733 --> 00:22:04,442
skull and crossbones, really,
425
00:22:04,443 --> 00:22:06,569
is street corner chemistry.
426
00:22:06,570 --> 00:22:09,488
Street corner chemists
are most responsible
427
00:22:09,489 --> 00:22:12,742
for amnesia.
428
00:22:12,743 --> 00:22:13,951
When they put that
shit together,
429
00:22:13,952 --> 00:22:15,619
they can't remember
what's supposed to be
430
00:22:15,620 --> 00:22:18,622
a little bit of this,
and a little bit of this,
431
00:22:18,623 --> 00:22:21,125
and a lot of that.
432
00:22:21,126 --> 00:22:24,044
Or was that
433
00:22:24,045 --> 00:22:27,506
a lot...
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00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:31,926
♪ The rhymin' G
is the man to see
435
00:22:31,927 --> 00:22:35,472
♪ Mother, RSVP, wanna party
436
00:22:35,473 --> 00:22:37,850
♪ The new AD
437
00:22:39,310 --> 00:22:40,685
You got to read the fine print
438
00:22:40,686 --> 00:22:44,064
on the invitation, it
goes something like this.
439
00:22:44,065 --> 00:22:46,106
♪ The rhymin' G
is the man to see
440
00:22:46,107 --> 00:22:51,112
♪ Got to RSVP, wanna
party, but no AD ♪
441
00:22:53,615 --> 00:22:57,659
Cause AD is what we remember
as skull and crossbones.
442
00:22:57,660 --> 00:22:59,745
Used to be BC and AD,
443
00:22:59,746 --> 00:23:02,539
that was the way folks
described the world.
444
00:23:02,540 --> 00:23:04,041
BC was Before Christ
445
00:23:04,042 --> 00:23:05,709
and AD was After the Death,
446
00:23:05,710 --> 00:23:09,005
but AD has gone through changes.
447
00:23:10,923 --> 00:23:12,590
Now skull and
crossbones removes you
448
00:23:12,591 --> 00:23:15,635
of trying to unlock
doors that you thought
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00:23:15,636 --> 00:23:18,304
were somewhere behind you.
450
00:23:18,305 --> 00:23:20,014
Trying to climb stairs
that just seem to
451
00:23:20,015 --> 00:23:23,851
go up and up and up
452
00:23:23,852 --> 00:23:26,647
and up...
453
00:23:34,946 --> 00:23:36,947
Might have to bring you
a description that reads
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00:23:36,948 --> 00:23:38,698
something like this
455
00:23:38,699 --> 00:23:40,992
which reminds you that you...
456
00:23:40,993 --> 00:23:44,830
♪ Cracks in the
sidewalk seem to expand
457
00:23:44,831 --> 00:23:46,748
♪ I can't get a walk
458
00:23:46,749 --> 00:23:49,210
♪ It must be dust
459
00:23:54,632 --> 00:23:57,466
♪ Flowers on the wallpaper chain
460
00:23:57,467 --> 00:24:00,219
♪ The size and color, brother
461
00:24:00,220 --> 00:24:02,973
♪ It must be dust
462
00:24:07,644 --> 00:24:10,563
♪ I got my back against the wall
463
00:24:10,564 --> 00:24:13,816
♪ I know there's
no one there at all
464
00:24:13,817 --> 00:24:16,987
♪ But I'm lookin', dust
465
00:24:20,281 --> 00:24:22,615
♪ Can't remember
466
00:24:22,616 --> 00:24:26,411
♪ Conversation between me and me
467
00:24:26,412 --> 00:24:30,708
♪ And me and dust
468
00:24:33,752 --> 00:24:35,587
- We'd like to have
brother Robert Gordon,
469
00:24:35,588 --> 00:24:37,422
the secretary of
entertainment do a little bit
470
00:24:37,423 --> 00:24:40,008
of the melody, because we'd like
471
00:24:40,009 --> 00:24:41,926
to have y'all help
us with the song
472
00:24:41,927 --> 00:24:44,011
as we're going to do.
473
00:24:44,012 --> 00:24:46,430
Like to have the chairman
of the vibe-mosphere
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00:24:46,431 --> 00:24:49,850
come together, the song
is called "Angel Dust."
475
00:25:31,307 --> 00:25:34,935
Everybody got their part?
476
00:25:34,936 --> 00:25:37,229
Everybody got their part?
477
00:25:37,230 --> 00:25:39,481
♪ Angel Dust
478
00:25:39,482 --> 00:25:41,942
- Second time we get to
two, we gonna be lookin'
479
00:25:41,943 --> 00:25:44,986
for everybody to help
us out a little bit.
480
00:25:44,987 --> 00:25:46,821
Say one,
481
00:25:46,822 --> 00:25:48,490
two,
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00:25:48,491 --> 00:25:50,158
one, two.
483
00:25:50,159 --> 00:25:53,328
♪ Angel Dust
484
00:25:56,164 --> 00:25:57,373
- One time, say it.
485
00:25:57,374 --> 00:25:59,376
♪ Angel dust
486
00:26:01,002 --> 00:26:03,254
Looking for a harmony
this time, y'all.
487
00:26:03,255 --> 00:26:06,132
♪ Angel dust
488
00:26:08,843 --> 00:26:09,885
- Come on, say it.
489
00:26:09,886 --> 00:26:12,931
♪ Angel dust
490
00:26:17,268 --> 00:26:20,229
♪ He was groovin'
491
00:26:21,814 --> 00:26:23,856
♪ And that was when
he could've sworn
492
00:26:23,857 --> 00:26:27,193
♪ The room was movin'
493
00:26:27,194 --> 00:26:30,738
♪ Hey, but that was
only in his mind
494
00:26:30,739 --> 00:26:34,450
♪ He was sailin'
495
00:26:34,451 --> 00:26:37,036
♪ Never really seemed to notice
496
00:26:37,037 --> 00:26:39,955
♪ Vision failin'
497
00:26:39,956 --> 00:26:43,542
♪ Hey, 'cause that was
all part of the high
498
00:26:43,543 --> 00:26:46,503
♪ Sweat was pourin'
499
00:26:46,504 --> 00:26:49,965
♪ And he couldn't take it
500
00:26:49,966 --> 00:26:53,302
♪ The room was exploding
501
00:26:53,303 --> 00:26:55,804
♪ He might not make it, say
502
00:26:55,805 --> 00:26:58,974
♪ Angel dust
503
00:26:58,975 --> 00:27:02,269
♪ Pain to say, somebody help me
504
00:27:02,270 --> 00:27:04,937
♪ Angel dust
505
00:27:04,938 --> 00:27:08,441
♪ Don't mean nobody no good
506
00:27:08,442 --> 00:27:11,736
♪ Angel dust
507
00:27:11,737 --> 00:27:16,157
♪ And you won't remember
what you're missin'
508
00:27:16,158 --> 00:27:18,409
♪ But down some dead end street
509
00:27:18,410 --> 00:27:21,412
♪ There ain't no turnin' back
510
00:27:21,413 --> 00:27:24,833
♪ The devil get away from dust
511
00:27:27,084 --> 00:27:29,252
♪ Sometimes just pickin' up on
512
00:27:29,253 --> 00:27:31,505
♪ Say dust
513
00:27:35,426 --> 00:27:39,220
♪ And they were standin'
514
00:27:39,221 --> 00:27:41,681
♪ Everybody in a circle
515
00:27:41,682 --> 00:27:45,268
♪ The whole family
516
00:27:45,269 --> 00:27:48,104
♪ And listening to
the preachers' words
517
00:27:48,105 --> 00:27:51,607
♪ Sis was cryin'
518
00:27:51,608 --> 00:27:54,360
♪ She alone knew the secret
519
00:27:54,361 --> 00:27:58,280
♪ About his dyin'
520
00:27:58,281 --> 00:28:00,866
♪ Tears fallin' to Earth
521
00:28:00,867 --> 00:28:03,911
♪ Maybe it was her fault
522
00:28:03,912 --> 00:28:06,830
♪ He was so trusting
523
00:28:06,831 --> 00:28:10,292
♪ And God only knew why
524
00:28:10,293 --> 00:28:12,586
♪ They were dustin'
525
00:28:12,587 --> 00:28:15,922
♪ Angel dust
526
00:28:15,923 --> 00:28:19,092
♪ Struck again
say, somebody help
527
00:28:19,093 --> 00:28:22,762
♪ Angel dust
528
00:28:22,763 --> 00:28:25,598
♪ It don't mean nobody no good
529
00:28:25,599 --> 00:28:29,143
♪ Angel dust
530
00:28:29,144 --> 00:28:30,770
♪ And you won't
531
00:28:30,771 --> 00:28:32,647
♪ Remember what you missin'
532
00:28:32,648 --> 00:28:34,982
♪ But down some dead end street
533
00:28:34,983 --> 00:28:38,235
♪ There ain't no turnin' back
534
00:28:38,236 --> 00:28:40,278
♪ You never get away
535
00:28:40,279 --> 00:28:42,656
♪ Don't dust
536
00:28:42,657 --> 00:28:47,203
♪ Say, somebody tell
my brother about dust
537
00:28:48,955 --> 00:28:51,957
♪ And I ain't tryin'
to run your life
538
00:28:51,958 --> 00:28:54,835
♪ Believe me, the dust
539
00:28:54,836 --> 00:28:58,630
♪ Good Lord, it'll sure
enough do you wrong
540
00:28:58,631 --> 00:29:00,506
♪ Down some dead end street
541
00:29:00,507 --> 00:29:04,176
♪ There ain't no turnin'
back to back to back
542
00:29:04,177 --> 00:29:06,680
♪ Run away from dust
543
00:29:08,390 --> 00:29:12,352
♪ Somebody needs to tell
my sister about dust
544
00:29:13,979 --> 00:29:17,273
♪ Don't mean nobody
no good, nowhere
545
00:29:17,274 --> 00:29:20,276
♪ Say, and dust
546
00:29:20,277 --> 00:29:23,528
♪ Mess with it long, it'll
sure enough do you wrong
547
00:29:23,529 --> 00:29:25,822
♪ Down some dead end street
548
00:29:25,823 --> 00:29:28,741
♪ Ain't no turning back
549
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:34,874
Yeah you dig, thank
you very much.
550
00:29:39,545 --> 00:29:41,921
When you're on a
tour of Washington,
551
00:29:41,922 --> 00:29:44,799
let me tell you, those
tours are always the same.
552
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:46,758
They bring you around
to places like this,
553
00:29:46,759 --> 00:29:47,885
they might even tell you
554
00:29:47,886 --> 00:29:49,553
who the jackass is on the horse,
555
00:29:49,554 --> 00:29:51,221
or the guy up on
top of the building,
556
00:29:51,222 --> 00:29:53,223
but they never show you
the real Washington.
557
00:29:53,224 --> 00:29:55,726
Should've been around
maybe the 15th of January.
558
00:29:55,727 --> 00:29:58,645
That's when Stevie Wonder
was holdin' this rally.
559
00:29:58,646 --> 00:30:01,190
It was about 50 000
people gathered there,
560
00:30:01,191 --> 00:30:02,733
they were tryin' to
demonstrate and make
561
00:30:02,734 --> 00:30:05,402
Dr. King's birthday
a national holiday.
562
00:30:05,403 --> 00:30:06,945
But it's always the same.
563
00:30:06,946 --> 00:30:09,406
The Capitol, the Hoover
Building, maybe sometimes
564
00:30:09,407 --> 00:30:11,866
they would even show you
the Washington Monument,
565
00:30:11,867 --> 00:30:14,410
but that's not a look
at the real Washington.
566
00:30:14,411 --> 00:30:16,746
The one I'd like to show
you is something special.
567
00:30:16,747 --> 00:30:18,748
You wanna see what's happening
in the nation's capital?
568
00:30:18,749 --> 00:30:20,708
Come with me.
569
00:30:20,709 --> 00:30:22,627
See most of the things that
happen in the nation's capital
570
00:30:22,628 --> 00:30:25,004
happen in neighborhoods
just like this,
571
00:30:25,005 --> 00:30:26,714
and unfortunately these
are the neighborhoods
572
00:30:26,715 --> 00:30:29,634
that the people from Omaha
and the people from Kansas
573
00:30:29,635 --> 00:30:32,261
and the people from
out in Indiana and Ohio
574
00:30:32,262 --> 00:30:33,887
never get a chance to see.
575
00:30:33,888 --> 00:30:35,889
So when there are protests
and demonstrations
576
00:30:35,890 --> 00:30:37,974
and expressions of
concern about members
577
00:30:37,975 --> 00:30:40,143
of communities like this,
people in the midwest
578
00:30:40,144 --> 00:30:41,645
and other places who've been to
579
00:30:41,646 --> 00:30:43,104
the nation's capital, they say,
580
00:30:43,105 --> 00:30:45,690
why, those people in D.C.,
they're living so good,
581
00:30:45,691 --> 00:30:47,400
they have it so great,
what could they possibly
582
00:30:47,401 --> 00:30:49,319
be demonstrating about?
583
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:51,279
It's because the tour mobile
takes you to Joycetown.
584
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:54,074
The tour mobile takes
you to the Gold Coast.
585
00:30:54,075 --> 00:30:55,784
The tour mobile never comes down
586
00:30:55,785 --> 00:30:58,786
10th and V, 10th and W.
587
00:30:58,787 --> 00:31:00,204
Tour mobile never gets over here
588
00:31:00,205 --> 00:31:02,081
into the heart of the
city, and therefore
589
00:31:02,082 --> 00:31:04,708
never has any real
contact with the people
590
00:31:04,709 --> 00:31:07,545
who are the lifeblood
of this city.
591
00:31:07,546 --> 00:31:12,132
♪ Seem to me,
still in light time
592
00:31:12,133 --> 00:31:16,428
♪ People knifed
up on 14th street
593
00:31:16,429 --> 00:31:20,932
♪ Makes me feel
always the right time
594
00:31:20,933 --> 00:31:25,436
♪ 'Cause them people
should not be lovin' me
595
00:31:25,437 --> 00:31:29,775
♪ Did make the one
seem kind of numb
596
00:31:30,901 --> 00:31:33,152
♪ It's the nation's capital
597
00:31:33,153 --> 00:31:35,488
♪ It's the nation's capital
598
00:31:35,489 --> 00:31:37,490
♪ It's the nation's capital
599
00:31:37,491 --> 00:31:39,867
♪ It's Washinton, D.C.
600
00:31:39,868 --> 00:31:42,870
- We wrote a song
for the new album
601
00:31:42,871 --> 00:31:46,165
that has raised a certain
number of questions,
602
00:31:47,166 --> 00:31:49,876
particularly about the
former mayor of Philadelphia
603
00:31:49,877 --> 00:31:51,837
who's name was Frank Rizzo.
604
00:31:51,838 --> 00:31:54,798
The song that we wrote
was called "Gun."
605
00:31:54,799 --> 00:31:59,219
And it had a lot to do with
Mayor Rizzo, rest in pieces.
606
00:32:02,599 --> 00:32:03,932
I say that 'cause
we just so glad
607
00:32:03,933 --> 00:32:06,018
he ain't the mayor no more.
608
00:32:06,019 --> 00:32:07,893
Frank Rizzo got on
TV one time and said
609
00:32:07,894 --> 00:32:10,438
that he was gonna
collect all the handguns.
610
00:32:10,439 --> 00:32:13,024
Personally, damn near.
611
00:32:13,025 --> 00:32:15,026
And what he was gonna do
is he was gonna put up
612
00:32:15,027 --> 00:32:18,029
these cardboard boxes
at the fire stations
613
00:32:18,030 --> 00:32:20,365
and when you was in the
neighborhood and had a minute,
614
00:32:21,533 --> 00:32:23,200
you supposed to come by
and drop your piece off
615
00:32:23,201 --> 00:32:24,827
in the box.
616
00:32:24,828 --> 00:32:26,704
So in the course
of about six weeks
617
00:32:26,705 --> 00:32:31,125
he had one gun that
he had collected,
618
00:32:32,168 --> 00:32:35,128
and it was in bad
need of repair.
619
00:32:35,129 --> 00:32:36,713
So they went down and
South Philadelphia
620
00:32:36,714 --> 00:32:38,214
and they asked the
brothers down there
621
00:32:38,215 --> 00:32:40,800
exactly what the situation was,
622
00:32:40,801 --> 00:32:42,177
had they heard what
they mayor said,
623
00:32:42,178 --> 00:32:45,055
and they said, yeah, they heard.
624
00:32:45,056 --> 00:32:47,098
And that as soon as the
police turned their guns in
625
00:32:48,559 --> 00:32:50,935
they should come back and
ask them about it again.
626
00:32:50,936 --> 00:32:52,729
So we would like to
do a song for you
627
00:32:52,730 --> 00:32:55,564
about the American streets,
the song is called "Gun."
628
00:33:17,586 --> 00:33:21,381
♪ Brother man nowadays
livin' in the ghetto
629
00:33:21,382 --> 00:33:25,094
♪ Where the dangers
sure enough are real
630
00:33:27,137 --> 00:33:29,472
♪ Well if he's out late at night
631
00:33:29,473 --> 00:33:31,849
♪ If he's got his head on right
632
00:33:31,850 --> 00:33:34,769
♪ I lay you nine to five
he's walkin' with steel
633
00:33:34,770 --> 00:33:38,898
♪ Brother man say he's
'fraid of gangsters
634
00:33:38,899 --> 00:33:42,860
♪ Messing with
people just for fun
635
00:33:44,612 --> 00:33:46,613
♪ Yeah sayin', he
don't want to be next
636
00:33:46,614 --> 00:33:49,282
♪ He's got a family to protect
637
00:33:49,283 --> 00:33:51,993
♪ Just last week he
bought himself a gun
638
00:33:51,994 --> 00:33:54,914
♪ And everybody got a pistol
639
00:33:56,290 --> 00:33:59,585
♪ Everybody got a .45
640
00:34:01,838 --> 00:34:03,796
♪ And the philosophy seem to be
641
00:34:03,797 --> 00:34:06,424
♪ At least as near
as I could see
642
00:34:06,425 --> 00:34:07,883
♪ When the other
folks give up theirs
643
00:34:07,884 --> 00:34:09,301
♪ I'll give up mine
644
00:34:09,302 --> 00:34:13,347
♪ This is the
violent civilization
645
00:34:13,348 --> 00:34:16,309
♪ If civilization's where I am
646
00:34:18,854 --> 00:34:21,188
♪ Every channel that I stop on
647
00:34:21,189 --> 00:34:23,691
♪ Got a different kind of cop on
648
00:34:23,692 --> 00:34:26,527
♪ And killin' them by
the million for Uncle Sam
649
00:34:26,528 --> 00:34:29,864
♪ But Saturday night
just ain't that special
650
00:34:30,990 --> 00:34:34,160
♪ Yeah, I got the
constitution on the run
651
00:34:36,662 --> 00:34:38,538
♪ 'Cause even though
we've got the right
652
00:34:38,539 --> 00:34:40,749
♪ To defend our
home, defend our life
653
00:34:40,750 --> 00:34:42,959
♪ Got to understand,
to get it in their head
654
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:44,252
♪ About the guns
655
00:34:44,253 --> 00:34:46,672
♪ 'Cause everybody got a pistol
656
00:34:48,257 --> 00:34:51,384
♪ Everybody got a .45
657
00:34:53,678 --> 00:34:55,971
♪ Yeah, philosophy seems to be
658
00:34:55,972 --> 00:34:58,682
♪ At least as near as I can see
659
00:34:58,683 --> 00:35:00,350
♪ When the other
folks give up, give up
660
00:35:00,351 --> 00:35:03,187
♪ Give up, if I give
up, if I give up, say
661
00:35:36,053 --> 00:35:40,180
♪ Saturday night just
ain't that special
662
00:35:40,181 --> 00:35:43,309
♪ Freedom to be
afraid is all you want
663
00:35:45,895 --> 00:35:48,730
♪ You sayin', you don't
want to be next right now
664
00:35:48,731 --> 00:35:50,565
♪ You've got a family to protect
665
00:35:50,566 --> 00:35:53,902
♪ Nine of 10 you need
a friend, you got a gun
666
00:35:53,903 --> 00:35:56,322
♪ And everybody got a pistol
667
00:35:57,907 --> 00:36:00,491
♪ Everybody got a .45
668
00:36:00,492 --> 00:36:04,245
♪ .38, .22, warnin' you
669
00:36:04,246 --> 00:36:05,663
♪ Philosophy seems to be
670
00:36:05,664 --> 00:36:08,332
♪ At least as near as I can see
671
00:36:08,333 --> 00:36:09,959
♪ When the other
folks give up theirs
672
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:11,335
♪ I'll give up mine
673
00:36:11,336 --> 00:36:14,214
♪ And everybody's got a pistol
674
00:36:16,132 --> 00:36:18,593
♪ This mostly be the NRA
675
00:36:21,096 --> 00:36:23,347
♪ Yeah, 'cause when
it's time to sign up
676
00:36:23,348 --> 00:36:26,140
♪ You know damn well
they're gonna line up
677
00:36:26,141 --> 00:36:28,853
♪ Everybody, everybody, say it
678
00:36:32,982 --> 00:36:36,485
♪ Listen what we talkin' about
679
00:36:38,696 --> 00:36:40,780
♪ Yeah, the
philosophy seem to be
680
00:36:40,781 --> 00:36:43,616
♪ As least as near as I can see
681
00:36:43,617 --> 00:36:45,159
♪ When the other
folks give up theirs
682
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:47,619
♪ I'll give up mine
683
00:36:47,620 --> 00:36:49,621
There's some ghosts in
America's past, naturally.
684
00:36:49,622 --> 00:36:51,373
People who have
been building blocks
685
00:36:51,374 --> 00:36:53,333
to the history of this country,
686
00:36:53,334 --> 00:36:54,751
and we haven't seen
very much of them
687
00:36:54,752 --> 00:36:57,629
so far on our tour,
but believe you, me,
688
00:36:57,630 --> 00:36:59,214
as soon as we take a turn around
689
00:36:59,215 --> 00:37:00,924
another one or two
of these corners,
690
00:37:00,925 --> 00:37:02,509
I'm gonna take you to a place
691
00:37:02,510 --> 00:37:05,053
where all of them are still,
692
00:37:05,054 --> 00:37:07,306
well I couldn't
say alive and well,
693
00:37:07,307 --> 00:37:08,432
'cause eve when they were alive
694
00:37:08,433 --> 00:37:11,851
a lot of 'em weren't
doing that well.
695
00:37:11,852 --> 00:37:13,269
But at the very least I can say
696
00:37:13,270 --> 00:37:14,770
that we can show you
some of the symbols
697
00:37:14,771 --> 00:37:17,315
that we consider
when we talk about
698
00:37:17,316 --> 00:37:20,902
the history of this
particular nation.
699
00:37:20,903 --> 00:37:23,530
Come on, let's go.
700
00:37:28,911 --> 00:37:30,621
Wow.
701
00:37:33,664 --> 00:37:37,167
Yeah, they told me this
would be quite a surprise.
702
00:37:37,168 --> 00:37:38,501
'Cause things have changed here
703
00:37:38,502 --> 00:37:40,128
over the last two centuries,
it seems as though
704
00:37:40,129 --> 00:37:42,672
things have gone even a
little bit further then
705
00:37:42,673 --> 00:37:46,509
from Plymouth Rock to acid rock.
706
00:37:46,510 --> 00:37:50,513
There are lots of pieces
of American history here,
707
00:37:50,514 --> 00:37:54,267
got Betsy Ross, I suppose,
dealin' with the flag.
708
00:37:54,268 --> 00:37:55,685
I once heard a suite one time
709
00:37:55,686 --> 00:37:57,937
that was written by a guy
who's idea was called,
710
00:37:57,938 --> 00:38:00,230
"How much nicer
it might have been
711
00:38:00,231 --> 00:38:03,275
"if Plymouth Rock had
landed on the pilgrims."
712
00:38:03,276 --> 00:38:05,402
Well I don't know if
I agree with all that,
713
00:38:05,403 --> 00:38:07,154
but there are certain
indications of
714
00:38:07,155 --> 00:38:10,532
a long past America here.
715
00:38:10,533 --> 00:38:14,370
A clock to photographs,
to the ships,
716
00:38:14,371 --> 00:38:16,038
but what I really
wanted to talk about
717
00:38:16,039 --> 00:38:18,165
was something of a new nature,
718
00:38:18,166 --> 00:38:21,501
at least in terms of our
perspectives of ourselves.
719
00:38:21,502 --> 00:38:22,627
Take, for example, this guy
720
00:38:22,628 --> 00:38:24,045
standing over here
in the corner.
721
00:38:24,046 --> 00:38:27,215
A lot of us will recognize him.
722
00:38:27,216 --> 00:38:28,633
Did a poem one time called
723
00:38:28,634 --> 00:38:31,177
"The Watergate Blues."
724
00:38:31,178 --> 00:38:34,555
And in "The Watergate Blues,"
straighten it up over here.
725
00:38:34,556 --> 00:38:36,349
And in the "The Watergate
Blues" one of the big lines
726
00:38:36,350 --> 00:38:40,269
that we delivered was
that Nixon knew Agnew.
727
00:38:40,270 --> 00:38:42,397
The question was,
who was around where
728
00:38:42,398 --> 00:38:44,856
hell bogs died, what
was the cause of LBJ's
729
00:38:44,857 --> 00:38:46,525
untimely demise?
730
00:38:46,526 --> 00:38:48,110
And what really happened
to J. Edgar Hoover,
731
00:38:48,111 --> 00:38:49,736
the king is proud
of Patrick Grey
732
00:38:49,737 --> 00:38:51,989
while America's
faith is drowning
733
00:38:51,990 --> 00:38:55,242
beneath a cesspool
called the Watergate.
734
00:38:55,243 --> 00:38:59,579
The candle was
passed on from Nixon
735
00:38:59,580 --> 00:39:02,124
to Oatmeal Man, you see.
736
00:39:02,125 --> 00:39:03,875
As a matter of fact,
when Oatmeal Man
737
00:39:03,876 --> 00:39:07,753
inherited the presidency
some few years ago,
738
00:39:07,754 --> 00:39:09,171
well a matter of fact he
looks a little bit more
739
00:39:09,172 --> 00:39:12,508
on the job now then he did
while he was president.
740
00:39:12,509 --> 00:39:13,968
Spent a brief time
in the White House
741
00:39:13,969 --> 00:39:17,096
and then passed it on to
Skippy, who was the victim,
742
00:39:17,097 --> 00:39:19,432
or at least the guy
who came in second
743
00:39:19,433 --> 00:39:21,434
in the last election, collecting
744
00:39:21,435 --> 00:39:23,644
21% of the registered votes.
745
00:39:23,645 --> 00:39:27,773
♪ It's a mass of irony
for all the world to see
746
00:39:27,774 --> 00:39:32,402
♪ It's the nation's capital,
it's Washington, D.C.
747
00:39:32,403 --> 00:39:36,906
♪ It's the nation's capital,
it's the nation's capital
748
00:39:36,907 --> 00:39:41,453
♪ It's the nation's capital,
it's Washington, D.C.
749
00:39:41,454 --> 00:39:46,166
♪ It's the nation's capital,
it's the nation's capital
750
00:39:46,167 --> 00:39:50,671
♪ It's the nation's capital,
it's Washington, D.C. ♪
751
00:40:05,643 --> 00:40:09,814
♪ From the Indians who
welcomed the pilgrims
752
00:40:11,649 --> 00:40:13,942
♪ And to the buffalo
753
00:40:13,943 --> 00:40:16,905
♪ That once ruled the plains
754
00:40:17,863 --> 00:40:22,409
♪ Like the vultures circling
beneath the dark clouds
755
00:40:23,368 --> 00:40:26,580
♪ Lookin' for the rain
756
00:40:28,707 --> 00:40:32,252
♪ Yes, they been
lookin' for the rain
757
00:40:35,172 --> 00:40:39,051
♪ Just like the cities
758
00:40:40,177 --> 00:40:43,178
♪ Staggered on the coastline
759
00:40:43,179 --> 00:40:47,683
♪ Living in a nation that
just can't change much more
760
00:40:49,644 --> 00:40:51,645
♪ Like the forest
761
00:40:51,646 --> 00:40:55,023
♪ They buried
beneath the highway
762
00:40:55,024 --> 00:40:58,402
♪ Never had a chance to grow
763
00:41:00,363 --> 00:41:04,324
♪ Well, they never
had a chance to grow
764
00:41:06,868 --> 00:41:10,038
♪ And now it's winter
765
00:41:13,625 --> 00:41:17,587
♪ It seems like
winter in America
766
00:41:20,715 --> 00:41:23,759
♪ It's a time when
all of the healers
767
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:26,721
♪ Done been killed
768
00:41:27,972 --> 00:41:30,140
♪ And been betrayed
769
00:41:30,141 --> 00:41:33,643
♪ Yeah, people know
it's something wrong
770
00:41:33,644 --> 00:41:36,230
♪ But everybody
oughta know winter
771
00:41:39,066 --> 00:41:43,195
♪ It seems like
winter in America
772
00:41:46,782 --> 00:41:50,576
♪ The truth is there
ain't nobody fighting
773
00:41:50,577 --> 00:41:54,747
♪ 'Cause nobody
knows what to save
774
00:41:56,166 --> 00:41:59,252
♪ Brother save your soul
775
00:42:00,420 --> 00:42:03,256
♪ Winter in America
776
00:42:05,258 --> 00:42:09,303
♪ The constitution was
777
00:42:09,304 --> 00:42:12,181
♪ A noble piece of paper
778
00:42:12,182 --> 00:42:15,766
♪ And with free society, well
779
00:42:15,767 --> 00:42:19,145
♪ Struggled but it died in vain
780
00:42:19,146 --> 00:42:23,775
♪ And now democracy is
ragtime on the corner
781
00:42:25,819 --> 00:42:27,987
♪ Unemployed
782
00:42:27,988 --> 00:42:30,239
♪ And hopin' that it rains
783
00:42:30,240 --> 00:42:33,619
♪ Yes, been hopin' for some rain
784
00:42:36,622 --> 00:42:38,747
♪ But it just don't
look like rain
785
00:42:38,748 --> 00:42:41,166
♪ I've seen the robin
786
00:42:41,167 --> 00:42:44,211
♪ Perched in barren treetops
787
00:42:44,212 --> 00:42:47,505
♪ Watchin' the
last-ditch racists
788
00:42:47,506 --> 00:42:51,384
♪ Marchin' across the floor
789
00:42:51,385 --> 00:42:55,806
♪ And like peace signs
that melted in our dreams
790
00:42:56,933 --> 00:43:00,019
♪ And never had a chance to grow
791
00:43:02,103 --> 00:43:05,899
♪ Well, it never
had a chance to grow
792
00:43:07,484 --> 00:43:11,111
♪ Somebody wanna know, tell them
793
00:43:11,112 --> 00:43:14,366
♪ It's winter
794
00:43:15,659 --> 00:43:18,160
♪ Nothin' goes in it
795
00:43:18,161 --> 00:43:20,997
♪ Winter in America
796
00:43:23,166 --> 00:43:26,001
♪ It's a time when
all of the healers
797
00:43:27,294 --> 00:43:30,964
♪ Done been killed
798
00:43:30,965 --> 00:43:33,591
♪ Or they been betrayed
799
00:43:33,592 --> 00:43:37,262
♪ Say, people know it's
something wrong, hey
800
00:43:37,263 --> 00:43:40,516
♪ I feel like winter
801
00:43:42,184 --> 00:43:45,980
♪ It seems like
winter in America
802
00:43:48,648 --> 00:43:51,608
♪ Yes, well the truth is this
803
00:43:51,609 --> 00:43:54,486
♪ Nobody fightin' because
804
00:43:54,487 --> 00:43:58,157
♪ Well nobody knows what to save
805
00:43:59,242 --> 00:44:02,412
♪ Sisters save the babies
806
00:44:03,538 --> 00:44:06,582
♪ Winter in America
807
00:46:08,824 --> 00:46:12,576
♪ And now it's winter
808
00:46:15,831 --> 00:46:19,501
♪ It's cold, it's
winter in America
809
00:46:22,170 --> 00:46:25,339
♪ Yes, it's a time when
all of the healers
810
00:46:25,340 --> 00:46:29,593
♪ Brothers sing to him
what's done, they killed
811
00:46:29,594 --> 00:46:33,430
♪ They put 'em in jail
812
00:46:33,431 --> 00:46:35,932
♪ Hey, people know
there's something
813
00:46:35,933 --> 00:46:39,437
♪ But everybody
oughta know winter
814
00:46:42,064 --> 00:46:45,860
♪ It seems like
winter in America
815
00:46:48,237 --> 00:46:51,156
♪ Yes, well, the
truth is there ain't
816
00:46:51,157 --> 00:46:54,533
♪ Nobody fighting because
817
00:46:54,534 --> 00:46:57,954
♪ Nobody knows what to save
818
00:47:01,833 --> 00:47:05,043
♪ Yes, well, the truth is
819
00:47:05,044 --> 00:47:08,130
♪ Nobody fighting because
820
00:47:08,131 --> 00:47:11,467
♪ Nobody knows what to
821
00:47:11,468 --> 00:47:15,388
♪ What to do, what to do
822
00:47:16,389 --> 00:47:20,141
♪ The truth is there
ain't nobody fighting
823
00:47:20,142 --> 00:47:25,105
♪ Because nobody
knows what to save ♪
824
00:47:36,116 --> 00:47:38,743
A lot of people may well see
this particular gentleman
825
00:47:38,744 --> 00:47:41,244
as someone who
makes an appearance,
826
00:47:41,245 --> 00:47:44,206
either in a supporting
or non-supporting role
827
00:47:44,207 --> 00:47:46,625
in many of the poems that I do.
828
00:47:46,626 --> 00:47:49,085
The truth is that the
politics that we discuss
829
00:47:49,086 --> 00:47:51,087
are not partisan
politics in terms
830
00:47:51,088 --> 00:47:52,797
of democrat or republican,
831
00:47:52,798 --> 00:47:55,467
I am a member of the
common sense party.
832
00:47:55,468 --> 00:47:57,511
And for the longest
kind of a time,
833
00:47:57,512 --> 00:47:59,262
I have felt as though
people who said
834
00:47:59,263 --> 00:48:01,640
that they did not care
anything about politics
835
00:48:01,641 --> 00:48:03,266
or were not interested
in it were making
836
00:48:03,267 --> 00:48:06,310
a political statement
in and of itself.
837
00:48:06,311 --> 00:48:08,938
The new poetry that
evolved in our society
838
00:48:08,939 --> 00:48:11,273
concerned the fact that
folks wanted to use
839
00:48:11,274 --> 00:48:13,359
both words that people
could understand
840
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:16,946
as well as talk about ideas
that people could understand.
841
00:48:16,947 --> 00:48:19,448
One such poem, at least
an early poem of ours
842
00:48:19,449 --> 00:48:21,659
that went in that direction,
concerned the fact
843
00:48:21,660 --> 00:48:23,118
that millions and
millions of dollars
844
00:48:23,119 --> 00:48:25,120
are continually
sent into outerspace
845
00:48:25,121 --> 00:48:27,789
while we continue to face
the same problems here
846
00:48:27,790 --> 00:48:30,500
on the ground.
847
00:48:30,501 --> 00:48:33,086
Poems said, A rat done
bit my sister, Nell
848
00:48:33,087 --> 00:48:34,879
with Whitey on the moon.
849
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:37,298
Her face and arms began to swell
850
00:48:37,299 --> 00:48:39,133
and Whitey's on the moon.
851
00:48:39,134 --> 00:48:41,052
I can't pay no doctor bills,
852
00:48:41,053 --> 00:48:42,470
but Whitey's on the moon,
853
00:48:42,471 --> 00:48:44,764
10 years from now
I'll be payin' still,
854
00:48:44,765 --> 00:48:46,349
while Whitey's on the moon.
855
00:48:46,350 --> 00:48:48,268
You know, the man just
upped my rent last night
856
00:48:48,269 --> 00:48:50,353
'cause Whitey's on the moon?
857
00:48:50,354 --> 00:48:52,813
No hot water, no
toilets and no lights,
858
00:48:52,814 --> 00:48:54,648
but Whitey's on the moon.
859
00:48:54,649 --> 00:48:56,650
I wonder why he's uppin' me.
860
00:48:56,651 --> 00:48:58,569
'Cause Whitey's on the moon?
861
00:48:58,570 --> 00:49:00,779
I was already givin'
him 50 a week,
862
00:49:00,780 --> 00:49:02,656
and now Whitey's on the moon.
863
00:49:02,657 --> 00:49:05,075
Taxes takin' my
whole damn check,
864
00:49:05,076 --> 00:49:06,994
the junkies make
me a nervous wreck,
865
00:49:06,995 --> 00:49:08,996
the price of food is goin' up,
866
00:49:08,997 --> 00:49:11,790
and as if all that
crap wasn't enough,
867
00:49:11,791 --> 00:49:14,459
a rat done bit my sister, Nell
868
00:49:14,460 --> 00:49:16,502
with Whitey on the moon.
869
00:49:16,503 --> 00:49:19,171
Her face and arms began to swell
870
00:49:19,172 --> 00:49:21,674
and Whitey's on the moon.
871
00:49:21,675 --> 00:49:23,884
Was all that money
I made last year
872
00:49:23,885 --> 00:49:26,053
for Whitey on the moon?
873
00:49:26,054 --> 00:49:27,972
How come I ain't
got not money here?
874
00:49:27,973 --> 00:49:30,224
Hm, Whitey's on the moon.
875
00:49:30,225 --> 00:49:32,518
You know I just
about had my fill
876
00:49:32,519 --> 00:49:34,312
of Whitey on the moon.
877
00:49:34,313 --> 00:49:36,522
I think I'll send
these doctor bills
878
00:49:36,523 --> 00:49:40,693
airmail special to
Whitey on the moon.
879
00:49:43,070 --> 00:49:46,448
We have done a number
of songs, we hope,
880
00:49:46,449 --> 00:49:48,408
that have strengthened
our connection
881
00:49:48,409 --> 00:49:51,036
with the third world.
882
00:49:51,037 --> 00:49:52,871
Because it seems as
though oftentimes
883
00:49:52,872 --> 00:49:55,457
there are attempts
to split us up,
884
00:49:55,458 --> 00:49:58,668
divide and conquer, keep
us at odds with one another
885
00:49:58,669 --> 00:50:00,629
so that we never
define the things
886
00:50:00,630 --> 00:50:03,047
that we have in common,
but we have more things
887
00:50:03,048 --> 00:50:05,382
in common than we
do that separate us.
888
00:50:05,383 --> 00:50:07,384
The song that we
wrote is about people
889
00:50:07,385 --> 00:50:10,346
who are sometimes
referred to as "aliens."
890
00:50:10,347 --> 00:50:13,849
Or worse still,
"illegal aliens."
891
00:50:13,850 --> 00:50:16,226
And we have insisted
that this is to
892
00:50:16,227 --> 00:50:18,937
differentiate them from
folks who have come here
893
00:50:18,938 --> 00:50:21,065
from Mars, legally.
894
00:50:22,984 --> 00:50:24,568
And these are folks
who, in our song,
895
00:50:24,569 --> 00:50:26,736
come across near Tijuana
or the Rio Grande.
896
00:50:26,737 --> 00:50:30,073
They're brought into
this country by coyotes,
897
00:50:30,074 --> 00:50:32,283
people smugglers.
898
00:50:32,284 --> 00:50:34,786
They're forced to pay
mordida, the bribes,
899
00:50:34,787 --> 00:50:37,747
to keep from being
turned into immigration.
900
00:50:37,748 --> 00:50:39,957
And when they do that
they're called pollos,
901
00:50:39,958 --> 00:50:43,252
chickens, ripe for the plucking.
902
00:50:43,253 --> 00:50:45,672
Sometimes these folks
come into this country
903
00:50:45,673 --> 00:50:47,799
with only their
dreams of doin' better
904
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:49,966
and the clothes they
got on their back.
905
00:50:49,967 --> 00:50:52,260
And this is what we have
in common with them.
906
00:50:52,261 --> 00:50:54,012
The reason we get up
every day and decide
907
00:50:54,013 --> 00:50:55,931
to try again is
because we have dreams
908
00:50:55,932 --> 00:50:57,891
of doing better.
909
00:50:57,892 --> 00:51:00,435
This song is about
holding on to your dreams,
910
00:51:00,436 --> 00:51:02,729
we call the song "Alien."
911
00:51:15,033 --> 00:51:18,829
We got someone to help us out
with the sounds this evening.
912
00:51:38,639 --> 00:51:42,851
♪ Midnight near the border
tryin' to cross the Rio Grande
913
00:51:42,852 --> 00:51:47,815
♪ Runnin' with coyotes to where
streets are paved with gold
914
00:51:48,691 --> 00:51:53,194
♪ You're diving underwater
when you hear the helicoptors
915
00:51:53,195 --> 00:51:55,613
♪ Knowin' it's all be
less than worthless
916
00:51:55,614 --> 00:51:58,991
♪ if you run into patrols
917
00:51:58,992 --> 00:52:03,203
♪ Hiding in the shadows, so
scared that you want to scream
918
00:52:03,204 --> 00:52:05,456
♪ But you dare not make a sound
919
00:52:05,457 --> 00:52:08,167
♪ If you want to hold
on to your dreams
920
00:52:08,168 --> 00:52:11,628
♪ Hold on
921
00:52:11,629 --> 00:52:13,797
♪ It may not be a
lot, but you got to
922
00:52:13,798 --> 00:52:16,300
♪ Hold on
923
00:52:16,301 --> 00:52:19,344
♪ 'Cause you know
it's all you got
924
00:52:19,345 --> 00:52:22,013
♪ No matter the
consequences or the fear
925
00:52:22,014 --> 00:52:23,681
♪ That grips your senses
926
00:52:23,682 --> 00:52:27,268
♪ You have to hold
on to your dreams ♪
927
00:52:27,269 --> 00:52:29,103
Goin' into L.A.
928
00:52:29,104 --> 00:52:33,566
♪ The City of the Angels with
its bright light fascination
929
00:52:33,567 --> 00:52:38,322
♪ Only adds to the confusion
that your mind must now endure
930
00:52:39,156 --> 00:52:41,157
♪ The gringos take advantage
931
00:52:41,158 --> 00:52:43,785
♪ When they know
that you're illegal
932
00:52:43,786 --> 00:52:48,790
♪ But you avoid la policia like
a plague that can't be cured
933
00:52:49,749 --> 00:52:53,960
♪ Paying la mordida you find
out just what pollo means
934
00:52:53,961 --> 00:52:56,296
♪ But you dare not
file complaints
935
00:52:56,297 --> 00:52:58,673
♪ If you want to hold
on to your dreams
936
00:52:58,674 --> 00:53:01,384
♪ Hold on
937
00:53:01,385 --> 00:53:05,139
♪ It may not be a
lot, but you hold on
938
00:53:06,474 --> 00:53:09,391
♪ 'Cause you know
it's all you got
939
00:53:09,392 --> 00:53:11,268
♪ No matter the consequences
940
00:53:11,269 --> 00:53:14,396
♪ Or the fear that
grips your senses
941
00:53:14,397 --> 00:53:17,734
♪ You have got to
hold on to your dreams
942
00:53:19,611 --> 00:53:22,154
♪ Down in the Western
Union sending cash
943
00:53:22,155 --> 00:53:24,073
♪ Back to your family
944
00:53:24,074 --> 00:53:28,328
♪ Or drinking down cerveza
where the lights are very low
945
00:53:29,412 --> 00:53:31,205
♪ Your mind may start to wander
946
00:53:31,206 --> 00:53:33,748
♪ When you think
about your village
947
00:53:33,749 --> 00:53:36,417
♪ or the woman that
you love so much
948
00:53:36,418 --> 00:53:38,920
♪ Who's still in Mexico
949
00:53:38,921 --> 00:53:41,506
♪ At just two bucks an hour
950
00:53:41,507 --> 00:53:44,467
♪ There is little
to redeem this life
951
00:53:44,468 --> 00:53:46,928
♪ Except that in your
mind you're trying to
952
00:53:46,929 --> 00:53:49,013
♪ Hold on to your dreams
953
00:53:49,014 --> 00:53:50,640
♪ Hold on
954
00:53:50,641 --> 00:53:53,476
♪ Everybody, it may not be a lot
955
00:53:53,477 --> 00:53:56,311
♪ But just hold on
956
00:53:56,312 --> 00:53:59,398
♪ 'Cause you know
it's all you got
957
00:53:59,399 --> 00:54:01,400
♪ No matter the consequences
958
00:54:01,401 --> 00:54:04,194
♪ Or the fear that
grips your senses
959
00:54:04,195 --> 00:54:07,781
♪ You have got to hold
on to your dreams ♪
960
00:54:07,782 --> 00:54:09,074
Everybody sing with us.
961
00:54:09,075 --> 00:54:10,702
♪ Hold on
962
00:54:11,995 --> 00:54:15,248
♪ It may not be a
lot but just hold on
963
00:54:16,708 --> 00:54:19,375
♪ 'Cause you know
it's all you got
964
00:54:19,376 --> 00:54:21,335
♪ No matter the consequences
965
00:54:21,336 --> 00:54:24,463
♪ Or the fear that
grips your senses
966
00:54:24,464 --> 00:54:27,593
♪ You have got to
hold on to your dreams
967
00:54:28,844 --> 00:54:30,428
♪ Hold on
968
00:54:30,429 --> 00:54:32,930
♪ It may not be a lot
969
00:54:32,931 --> 00:54:35,349
♪ But you hold on
970
00:54:35,350 --> 00:54:36,684
♪ It's all you got
971
00:54:36,685 --> 00:54:39,103
♪ 'Cause you know
it's all you got
972
00:54:39,104 --> 00:54:40,980
♪ No matter the consequences
973
00:54:40,981 --> 00:54:44,065
♪ Or the fear that
grips your senses
974
00:54:44,066 --> 00:54:47,110
♪ You have got to hold
on to your dreams ♪
975
00:54:47,111 --> 00:54:48,570
Come on, help us out, y'all.
976
00:54:48,571 --> 00:54:49,738
♪ Hold on
977
00:54:49,739 --> 00:54:51,364
♪ May not be a lot
978
00:54:51,365 --> 00:54:52,949
♪ May not be a lot
979
00:54:52,950 --> 00:54:55,243
♪ But you hold on
980
00:54:55,244 --> 00:54:57,955
♪ 'Cause you know
it's all you got
981
00:54:58,956 --> 00:55:00,582
♪ No matter the consequences
982
00:55:00,583 --> 00:55:03,460
♪ Or the fear that
grips your senses
983
00:55:03,461 --> 00:55:06,670
♪ Well, you have got to
hold on to your dreams ♪
984
00:55:06,671 --> 00:55:08,047
A little bit louder, y'all.
985
00:55:08,048 --> 00:55:10,883
♪ Hold on
986
00:55:10,884 --> 00:55:14,304
♪ May not be a lot,
but you hold on
987
00:55:15,347 --> 00:55:18,223
♪ Because you know
it's all you got
988
00:55:18,224 --> 00:55:20,100
♪ No matter the consequences
989
00:55:20,101 --> 00:55:23,187
♪ Or the fear that
grips your senses
990
00:55:23,188 --> 00:55:26,065
♪ You have got to hold
on to your dreams ♪
991
00:55:26,066 --> 00:55:27,524
I need y'all, go up there.
992
00:55:27,525 --> 00:55:29,068
♪ Hold on
993
00:55:30,486 --> 00:55:33,656
♪ May not be a lot,
but you hold on
994
00:55:34,865 --> 00:55:37,909
♪ 'Cause you know
it's all you got
995
00:55:37,910 --> 00:55:39,869
♪ No matter the consequences
996
00:55:39,870 --> 00:55:43,039
♪ Or the fear grips your senses
997
00:55:43,040 --> 00:55:46,585
♪ You have got to hold
on to your dreams ♪
998
00:55:48,212 --> 00:55:49,963
I was wondering
about our yesterdays
999
00:55:49,964 --> 00:55:52,089
and digging through the rubble.
1000
00:55:52,090 --> 00:55:53,465
And to say the least, somebody
1001
00:55:53,466 --> 00:55:55,550
went to a hell of
a lot of trouble
1002
00:55:55,551 --> 00:55:57,928
to make sure that
when we look things up
1003
00:55:57,929 --> 00:55:59,680
we wouldn't fair too well,
1004
00:55:59,681 --> 00:56:00,889
and we would come
up with totally
1005
00:56:00,890 --> 00:56:03,350
unreliable pictures
of ourselves.
1006
00:56:03,351 --> 00:56:04,977
But I've compiled what
few facts I could,
1007
00:56:04,978 --> 00:56:07,312
I mean, such as they are,
1008
00:56:07,313 --> 00:56:09,856
to see if we could find out
a little bit of something.
1009
00:56:09,857 --> 00:56:11,900
And this is what
I've got so far.
1010
00:56:11,901 --> 00:56:15,028
First, white folks
discovered Africa.
1011
00:56:15,029 --> 00:56:17,238
They claimed it fair and square.
1012
00:56:17,239 --> 00:56:19,532
Since the roads couldn't
have been robbin' nobody,
1013
00:56:19,533 --> 00:56:22,243
'cause hell, there
wasn't nobody there.
1014
00:56:22,244 --> 00:56:24,745
And white folks brought
all the civilization,
1015
00:56:24,746 --> 00:56:26,831
because there
wasn't none around.
1016
00:56:26,832 --> 00:56:28,374
How could the folks be civilized
1017
00:56:28,375 --> 00:56:30,960
when there wasn't nobody
writing nothin' down?
1018
00:56:30,961 --> 00:56:33,921
Just to prove all of
their suspicions, well,
1019
00:56:33,922 --> 00:56:35,339
didn't take too long.
1020
00:56:35,340 --> 00:56:37,425
They found out that there
were whole tribes of people
1021
00:56:37,426 --> 00:56:41,094
in plain sight, runnin'
around with no clothes on.
1022
00:56:41,095 --> 00:56:42,595
That's right.
1023
00:56:42,596 --> 00:56:44,848
The men, the women,
the young and the old,
1024
00:56:44,849 --> 00:56:46,641
righteous folks
covered their eyes.
1025
00:56:46,642 --> 00:56:49,519
And new time was spent
considering their environment.
1026
00:56:49,520 --> 00:56:52,564
Hell, no, this just
wasn't civilized.
1027
00:56:52,565 --> 00:56:54,482
And another piece of
information they had
1028
00:56:54,483 --> 00:56:56,943
or at least this is
what we were taught,
1029
00:56:56,944 --> 00:56:59,946
is that unlike the
civilized people of Europe,
1030
00:56:59,947 --> 00:57:02,740
these tribal units
actually fought.
1031
00:57:02,741 --> 00:57:05,826
And, yes, there was
some crude implements,
1032
00:57:05,827 --> 00:57:08,454
and, yes, there
was primitive art,
1033
00:57:08,455 --> 00:57:10,956
and, yes, they were masters
of hunting and fishing
1034
00:57:10,957 --> 00:57:13,083
and courtesy came
from the heart.
1035
00:57:13,084 --> 00:57:15,127
And, yes, there was
love and medicine
1036
00:57:15,128 --> 00:57:18,297
and religion, inter-tribal
communication by drum,
1037
00:57:18,298 --> 00:57:20,716
but no paper, no pencil
and no other utensils
1038
00:57:20,717 --> 00:57:23,385
and hell, these folks
never even heard of a gun.
1039
00:57:23,386 --> 00:57:25,553
And this is why
the colonies came,
1040
00:57:25,554 --> 00:57:27,180
to stabilize the land.
1041
00:57:27,181 --> 00:57:29,849
Because the dark continent
had copper and gold
1042
00:57:29,850 --> 00:57:32,351
and the discoverers
had themselves a plan.
1043
00:57:32,352 --> 00:57:34,729
They would discover all
the places with promise,
1044
00:57:34,730 --> 00:57:36,773
you didn't need no
titles and deeds,
1045
00:57:36,774 --> 00:57:39,442
then they would appoint people
to make everything legal
1046
00:57:39,443 --> 00:57:41,652
to sanction the
trickery and greed.
1047
00:57:41,653 --> 00:57:43,988
And back in the jungle when
the natives got restless
1048
00:57:43,989 --> 00:57:46,032
they would call the
guerrilla attack,
1049
00:57:46,033 --> 00:57:47,366
and they would never describe it
1050
00:57:47,367 --> 00:57:49,534
'til folks finally
got wise and decided
1051
00:57:49,535 --> 00:57:51,161
that they would fight back.
1052
00:57:51,162 --> 00:57:52,996
And still we are
victims of word games.
1053
00:57:52,997 --> 00:57:55,373
Semantics is always a bitch.
1054
00:57:55,374 --> 00:57:57,793
Places once referred
to as "underdeveloped"
1055
00:57:57,794 --> 00:58:00,003
are now called "mineral rich."
1056
00:58:00,004 --> 00:58:02,339
And the game goes on, eternally,
1057
00:58:02,340 --> 00:58:04,508
unity kept just beyond reach,
1058
00:58:04,509 --> 00:58:06,343
Egypt and Libya used
to be in Africa,
1059
00:58:06,344 --> 00:58:08,845
they've now been moved
to the Middle East.
1060
00:58:08,846 --> 00:58:11,098
There are examples
galore, I assure you,
1061
00:58:11,099 --> 00:58:13,766
but if interpreting
were left up to me,
1062
00:58:13,767 --> 00:58:16,393
I'd be sure every time
folks knew this verse
1063
00:58:16,394 --> 00:58:20,356
wasn't mine, which is why
it is called his-story.
1064
00:58:21,817 --> 00:58:23,359
One of the first songs that
I wrote when I moved here
1065
00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:24,777
was a song that concerned,
1066
00:58:24,778 --> 00:58:27,530
really it concerned
the five nations
1067
00:58:27,531 --> 00:58:29,865
in southern Africa
that were looking
1068
00:58:29,866 --> 00:58:31,659
for liberation at the time.
1069
00:58:31,660 --> 00:58:34,370
They were Angola,
Mozambique, Zimbabwe,
1070
00:58:34,371 --> 00:58:37,205
Namibia and Azania,
and of course,
1071
00:58:37,206 --> 00:58:39,207
since we have done those songs,
1072
00:58:39,208 --> 00:58:42,043
three of those nations
have claimed independence,
1073
00:58:42,044 --> 00:58:43,419
and we feel as
though the other two
1074
00:58:43,420 --> 00:58:45,755
are on the edge,
on the verge of it.
1075
00:58:46,841 --> 00:58:47,758
There are folks who are settling
1076
00:58:47,759 --> 00:58:50,093
in Namibia and southwest Africa,
1077
00:58:50,094 --> 00:58:52,095
and constant reports
that would encourage
1078
00:58:52,096 --> 00:58:54,389
people who are supporters
of the southern Africans
1079
00:58:54,390 --> 00:58:56,266
are suppressed, to make us feel
1080
00:58:56,267 --> 00:58:58,393
as though there's
nothin' goin' on.
1081
00:58:58,394 --> 00:59:00,602
But as long as people
want to have freedom
1082
00:59:00,603 --> 00:59:02,271
and want to have liberation,
there will be things
1083
00:59:02,272 --> 00:59:04,773
going on, and we need
to keep the faith
1084
00:59:06,067 --> 00:59:07,442
and keep the candle burning.
1085
00:59:07,443 --> 00:59:08,652
When we say "what's the word"
1086
00:59:08,653 --> 00:59:10,028
we would like to have
everybody join us
1087
00:59:10,029 --> 00:59:11,280
and say "Johannesburg."
1088
00:59:12,365 --> 00:59:14,074
Can we get everybody?
1089
00:59:14,075 --> 00:59:15,659
We don't wanna have
it sneak up on y'all,
1090
00:59:15,660 --> 00:59:16,952
so when we say "what's the word"
1091
00:59:16,953 --> 00:59:19,246
we gonna look, everybody
say "Johannesburg."
1092
00:59:19,247 --> 00:59:20,581
Can we get it on?
1093
00:59:21,624 --> 00:59:22,999
One, two.
1094
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:25,126
And you know what to do!
1095
00:59:42,644 --> 00:59:44,562
♪ Tell me what's the word?
1096
00:59:44,563 --> 00:59:45,562
♪ Johannesburg
1097
00:59:45,563 --> 00:59:46,980
♪ Don't know, but have you heard
1098
00:59:46,981 --> 00:59:50,109
♪ From Johannesburg?
1099
00:59:51,402 --> 00:59:53,236
♪ Somebody tell
me what the word?
1100
00:59:53,237 --> 00:59:54,279
♪ Johannesburg
1101
00:59:54,280 --> 00:59:55,822
♪ Tell me, woman, have you heard
1102
00:59:55,823 --> 00:59:58,534
♪ About Johannesburg?
1103
01:00:01,537 --> 01:00:04,789
♪ They tell me that
our brothers over there
1104
01:00:04,790 --> 01:00:06,959
♪ Are defyin' the man
1105
01:00:10,795 --> 01:00:14,298
♪ And we don't know for
sure because the news we get
1106
01:00:14,299 --> 01:00:16,091
♪ Is unreliable, man
1107
01:00:16,092 --> 01:00:18,385
♪ Was a country
1108
01:00:18,386 --> 01:00:22,765
♪ Well I hate it when
the blood starts flowin'
1109
01:00:22,766 --> 01:00:27,353
♪ But I'm glad to see
resistance growin'
1110
01:00:27,354 --> 01:00:29,271
♪ Somebody tell me
what's the word?
1111
01:00:29,272 --> 01:00:30,439
♪ Johannesburg
1112
01:00:30,440 --> 01:00:31,899
♪ Tell me brother,
have you heard
1113
01:00:31,900 --> 01:00:34,318
♪ From Johannesburg
1114
01:00:36,237 --> 01:00:38,071
♪ Somebody tell me
what's the word?
1115
01:00:38,072 --> 01:00:39,031
♪ Johannesburg
1116
01:00:39,032 --> 01:00:40,865
♪ Tell me woman, have you heard
1117
01:00:40,866 --> 01:00:43,577
♪ About Johannesburg?
1118
01:00:45,829 --> 01:00:49,415
♪ They tell me that
our brothers over there
1119
01:00:49,416 --> 01:00:53,003
♪ Refuse to work in
the mines sometimes
1120
01:00:55,297 --> 01:00:58,006
♪ They may not get to know them
1121
01:00:58,007 --> 01:01:00,676
♪ But they need to know
we're on their side
1122
01:01:00,677 --> 01:01:02,928
♪ All the time
1123
01:01:02,929 --> 01:01:07,766
♪ Yeah, now, sometimes distance
brings misunderstanding
1124
01:01:07,767 --> 01:01:11,395
♪ But deep in my
heart I'm demanding
1125
01:01:11,396 --> 01:01:13,188
♪ Somebody tell me
what's the word?
1126
01:01:13,189 --> 01:01:14,439
♪ Johannesburg
1127
01:01:14,440 --> 01:01:16,275
♪ Tell me brother have you heard
1128
01:01:16,276 --> 01:01:18,694
♪ About Johannesburg?
1129
01:01:18,695 --> 01:01:21,320
♪ A lot people talking and
sayin' what I wanna hear
1130
01:01:21,321 --> 01:01:22,363
♪ What's the word?
1131
01:01:22,364 --> 01:01:23,323
♪ Johannesburg
1132
01:01:23,324 --> 01:01:24,865
♪ Tell me woman, have you heard
1133
01:01:24,866 --> 01:01:27,160
♪ About Johannesburg?
1134
01:01:29,955 --> 01:01:33,874
♪ Say I know that they're
strugglin' over there
1135
01:01:33,875 --> 01:01:36,419
♪ That ain't gonna free me
1136
01:01:36,420 --> 01:01:38,045
♪ Not in child hands
1137
01:01:38,046 --> 01:01:40,131
♪ Yeah, but we fought hard
1138
01:01:40,132 --> 01:01:41,882
♪ Got to be strugglin'
1139
01:01:41,883 --> 01:01:44,426
♪ Say if we wanna be free
1140
01:01:44,427 --> 01:01:48,013
♪ I just wanna be
free, free, free, free
1141
01:02:02,737 --> 01:02:05,238
♪ Keep me free, now
1142
01:02:37,102 --> 01:02:40,272
♪ Just around the corner, yeah
1143
01:02:56,037 --> 01:02:58,622
See my office used to
be right down here.
1144
01:02:58,623 --> 01:03:00,540
On the corner of ninth and W.
1145
01:03:00,541 --> 01:03:02,042
And when I would tell
people I was at ninth at W
1146
01:03:02,043 --> 01:03:04,336
they would say, man ain't
that a rough neighborhood,
1147
01:03:04,337 --> 01:03:05,670
I say, yeah, it is pretty rough,
1148
01:03:05,671 --> 01:03:08,298
but it ain't as
rough as 11th and W,
1149
01:03:08,299 --> 01:03:11,134
and it's ain't even as rough
as 16th and Pennsylvania.
1150
01:03:11,135 --> 01:03:13,220
I figure, 'cause people
got to live over there
1151
01:03:13,221 --> 01:03:15,138
they really in trouble.
1152
01:03:15,139 --> 01:03:16,806
Everybody gets to look
at the White House
1153
01:03:16,807 --> 01:03:19,016
when they come to
Washington, D.C.,
1154
01:03:19,017 --> 01:03:20,768
but this is a part
of what goes on
1155
01:03:20,769 --> 01:03:21,977
out in front of the White House,
1156
01:03:21,978 --> 01:03:23,312
that very few people
ever get a chance
1157
01:03:23,313 --> 01:03:25,064
to take a look at.
1158
01:03:25,065 --> 01:03:26,649
Across the street
they're demonstrating
1159
01:03:26,650 --> 01:03:28,609
for world peace, over here
1160
01:03:28,610 --> 01:03:30,111
you have different
signs that have been
1161
01:03:30,112 --> 01:03:33,906
sentenced to the
star of our B-movie,
1162
01:03:33,907 --> 01:03:37,660
asking them about justice,
and freedom, and equality.
1163
01:03:37,661 --> 01:03:40,703
You know they protested
a launch in this country,
1164
01:03:40,704 --> 01:03:43,164
but not launch necessarily
against the government,
1165
01:03:43,165 --> 01:03:44,749
they're launched in
terms of the fact that
1166
01:03:44,750 --> 01:03:48,545
this country has rarely lived
up to its advanced publicity.
1167
01:03:48,546 --> 01:03:49,671
This is supposed to be the land
1168
01:03:49,672 --> 01:03:51,673
of justice, liberty
and equality,
1169
01:03:51,674 --> 01:03:53,091
and that's what
everybody over here
1170
01:03:53,092 --> 01:03:54,843
is lookin' for.
1171
01:03:54,844 --> 01:03:56,678
♪ Mornin' come and
bring the tourists
1172
01:03:56,679 --> 01:03:58,805
♪ Strainin' rubber necks
1173
01:03:58,806 --> 01:04:00,890
♪ To catch a glimpse
of the cowboy
1174
01:04:00,891 --> 01:04:03,350
♪ Makin' the world
a nervous wreck ♪
1175
01:04:03,351 --> 01:04:05,144
You know the question
is not actually
1176
01:04:05,145 --> 01:04:07,771
who the baddest hombre
is in these parts,
1177
01:04:07,772 --> 01:04:09,815
'cause I think I'm the one.
1178
01:04:09,816 --> 01:04:11,859
But it has a lot to
do with the difference
1179
01:04:11,860 --> 01:04:14,319
between the old west
and the new west,
1180
01:04:14,320 --> 01:04:16,113
and the way it is perceived.
1181
01:04:16,114 --> 01:04:18,490
'Cause you see, there are
a lot of folks in America
1182
01:04:18,491 --> 01:04:21,243
who are refusing to
recognize the fact
1183
01:04:21,244 --> 01:04:23,412
that today is actually today.
1184
01:04:23,413 --> 01:04:27,915
Times have changed, but very
few folks in America have.
1185
01:04:27,916 --> 01:04:31,586
We would like to
do a tune for you.
1186
01:04:31,587 --> 01:04:34,213
Actually, the tune
was put together
1187
01:04:34,214 --> 01:04:36,466
a little over a year ago,
1188
01:04:36,467 --> 01:04:40,386
and the problem, well
there were several.
1189
01:04:40,387 --> 01:04:42,555
But the main problem
was what we were going
1190
01:04:42,556 --> 01:04:44,390
to call the tune.
1191
01:04:46,894 --> 01:04:49,228
And after we had put the tune
together and looked at it
1192
01:04:51,147 --> 01:04:52,731
we decided we was gonna call it
1193
01:04:52,732 --> 01:04:54,941
"Real to Reel."
1194
01:04:54,942 --> 01:04:59,237
This was gonna be
R-E-A-L to R-E-E-L.
1195
01:04:59,238 --> 01:05:02,574
And that was certainly
gonna be the max.
1196
01:05:02,575 --> 01:05:06,119
And then we said no,
might be some people
1197
01:05:06,120 --> 01:05:07,997
that don't get it.
1198
01:05:09,874 --> 01:05:11,875
So we decided we was
gonna call the tune
1199
01:05:11,876 --> 01:05:15,252
"From Real to Reel to Surreal,"
1200
01:05:15,253 --> 01:05:17,755
and we was gonna draw a lot
of lines under "Surreal"
1201
01:05:17,756 --> 01:05:21,592
so everybody would know
that that was the main one.
1202
01:05:21,593 --> 01:05:25,222
Then we said no,
they may not get it.
1203
01:05:26,765 --> 01:05:29,725
Then we decided that we was
gonna call this particular idea
1204
01:05:29,726 --> 01:05:32,061
"From Shogun to Reagan."
1205
01:05:33,939 --> 01:05:37,357
That covered everything that
we wanted to talk about.
1206
01:05:37,358 --> 01:05:41,486
'Cause see the news was
loose about the mandate.
1207
01:05:41,487 --> 01:05:46,407
A mandate would be
indicating a majority,
1208
01:05:46,408 --> 01:05:49,035
an overwhelming majority,
as a matter of fact,
1209
01:05:49,036 --> 01:05:51,287
a landslide.
1210
01:05:51,288 --> 01:05:54,332
A majority of such
force that it entitled
1211
01:05:54,333 --> 01:05:58,461
the holder of this mandate
to change everybody's life
1212
01:05:58,462 --> 01:06:02,089
180 degrees.
1213
01:06:02,090 --> 01:06:03,590
So we went down
in the community,
1214
01:06:03,591 --> 01:06:05,842
down on seventh street,
1215
01:06:05,843 --> 01:06:08,303
told some of the brothers
there had been a mandate
1216
01:06:08,304 --> 01:06:09,596
for Reagan.
1217
01:06:09,597 --> 01:06:11,765
And they said, oh yeah?
1218
01:06:11,766 --> 01:06:13,768
What was the final score?
1219
01:06:14,894 --> 01:06:18,021
I said, well, 25% of
the registered voters
1220
01:06:18,022 --> 01:06:20,649
voted for Reagan, and
they said they would have
1221
01:06:20,650 --> 01:06:22,984
been more impressed
if it had been 26%
1222
01:06:22,985 --> 01:06:25,945
of the American people.
1223
01:06:25,946 --> 01:06:28,447
And then we say, well
Skippy come in second
1224
01:06:28,448 --> 01:06:32,618
with 21% of the
registered voters.
1225
01:06:32,619 --> 01:06:34,370
And then among all the
other people who was
1226
01:06:34,371 --> 01:06:36,330
runnin' also at the same time,
1227
01:06:36,331 --> 01:06:39,042
they gathered about
2% all together.
1228
01:06:40,335 --> 01:06:41,586
First thing that
the brothers noticed
1229
01:06:41,587 --> 01:06:44,005
was that 51% of the
registered voters
1230
01:06:44,006 --> 01:06:46,965
had voted for nobody.
1231
01:06:46,966 --> 01:06:48,383
And as far as they
were concerned,
1232
01:06:48,384 --> 01:06:51,386
that indicated that nobody
should be the president.
1233
01:06:53,556 --> 01:06:55,807
The 74% of the registered voters
1234
01:06:55,808 --> 01:06:58,184
had not voted for Reagan,
1235
01:06:58,185 --> 01:07:02,440
which indicated a mandate
in the other direction.
1236
01:07:04,233 --> 01:07:06,526
And after a few months
of dealing with Reagan
1237
01:07:06,527 --> 01:07:08,236
and his administration,
they have come back to me
1238
01:07:08,237 --> 01:07:11,822
and said, yeah, it's true.
1239
01:07:11,823 --> 01:07:13,949
Nobody is the president.
1240
01:07:17,078 --> 01:07:19,955
See, a lot of folks believe
that this is the first time
1241
01:07:19,956 --> 01:07:22,374
that we have ever done
anything on Reagan,
1242
01:07:22,375 --> 01:07:24,001
but that's not true.
1243
01:07:24,002 --> 01:07:26,170
We have done several things.
1244
01:07:26,171 --> 01:07:30,008
We did a poem one time called
"The Bicentennial Blues."
1245
01:07:31,426 --> 01:07:35,178
And we referred to
Reagan as "Holly-weird".
1246
01:07:35,179 --> 01:07:38,014
Acted like a actor,
1247
01:07:38,015 --> 01:07:41,142
acted like a democrat,
1248
01:07:41,143 --> 01:07:43,311
acted like a liberal.
1249
01:07:43,312 --> 01:07:44,729
What he was acting like the head
1250
01:07:44,730 --> 01:07:47,273
of the Screen Actor's
Guild, this is a position
1251
01:07:47,274 --> 01:07:51,110
currently held down by
a man named Ed Asner.
1252
01:07:51,111 --> 01:07:53,529
During the late '40s,
Ronald the Ray-gun
1253
01:07:53,530 --> 01:07:55,073
was the head of the
Screen Actor's Guild,
1254
01:07:55,074 --> 01:07:58,241
and it was his job to defend
people like Dalton Trumbo
1255
01:07:58,242 --> 01:08:01,663
or David Susskind from
the rages of McCarthyism.
1256
01:08:02,747 --> 01:08:03,914
That was when they
were lookin' for reds
1257
01:08:03,915 --> 01:08:07,584
under the corners
of ever carpet.
1258
01:08:07,585 --> 01:08:11,421
Decided he was gonna
act like a republican.
1259
01:08:11,422 --> 01:08:13,131
Acted like General
Franco when he acted like
1260
01:08:13,132 --> 01:08:15,467
governor of California.
1261
01:08:15,468 --> 01:08:19,012
Heard the conservatives
was on the way in,
1262
01:08:19,013 --> 01:08:21,180
and acted like one of them.
1263
01:08:21,181 --> 01:08:22,807
Showed up in 1976 acting like
1264
01:08:22,808 --> 01:08:26,268
somebody was gonna vote
for him for president.
1265
01:08:26,269 --> 01:08:28,020
And showed up in
1980 acting like
1266
01:08:28,021 --> 01:08:31,900
26% of the registered voters
was actually a mandate.
1267
01:08:33,110 --> 01:08:36,445
Got all of us acting
in this one, actually.
1268
01:08:36,446 --> 01:08:40,282
The truth is that at least
26% of the registered voters
1269
01:08:40,283 --> 01:08:42,743
don't wanna deal with tomorrow.
1270
01:08:42,744 --> 01:08:46,913
They are holding on to some
image of America's past,
1271
01:08:46,914 --> 01:08:50,041
but America has changed
in the last 20 years
1272
01:08:50,042 --> 01:08:53,128
from a producer to a consumer.
1273
01:08:53,129 --> 01:08:54,796
And all consumers know
that when the producer
1274
01:08:54,797 --> 01:08:58,007
names the tune then the
consumer has got to dance.
1275
01:08:58,008 --> 01:09:00,135
That's the way it is.
1276
01:09:00,136 --> 01:09:01,636
You don't believe it,
you go downtown tomorrow
1277
01:09:01,637 --> 01:09:03,138
and pick up a four-dollar
piece of meat,
1278
01:09:03,139 --> 01:09:05,640
give the man two dollars,
and we'll see you
1279
01:09:05,641 --> 01:09:08,308
in about 30 days.
1280
01:09:08,309 --> 01:09:11,311
'Cause whatever
happening, the producer
1281
01:09:11,312 --> 01:09:14,606
names the tune and the
consumer has got to dance.
1282
01:09:14,607 --> 01:09:17,151
Seems all right when
America was the producer,
1283
01:09:17,152 --> 01:09:19,236
hey, they was dealin'
with it, it was my way
1284
01:09:19,237 --> 01:09:21,071
or the highway.
1285
01:09:21,072 --> 01:09:23,490
But now that America
is a consumer
1286
01:09:23,491 --> 01:09:25,784
they want everybody to
deal with the same things
1287
01:09:25,785 --> 01:09:27,369
they deal with.
1288
01:09:27,370 --> 01:09:28,329
They don't know
if they want to be
1289
01:09:28,330 --> 01:09:29,871
Bob Dylan or Matt Dillon.
1290
01:09:29,872 --> 01:09:31,372
They don't know if they
want to be diplomats
1291
01:09:31,373 --> 01:09:33,416
or continue to threaten everyone
1292
01:09:33,417 --> 01:09:36,085
with the nuclear nightmare.
1293
01:09:36,086 --> 01:09:37,712
John Foster Dulles ain't nothing
1294
01:09:37,713 --> 01:09:40,840
but the name of an airport now.
1295
01:09:40,841 --> 01:09:42,175
See, this used to be a country
1296
01:09:42,176 --> 01:09:45,094
where everybody looked
forward to tomorrow.
1297
01:09:45,095 --> 01:09:47,764
And all of a sudden it
became the way we were
1298
01:09:47,765 --> 01:09:51,017
and December of '42
and them good ol' days,
1299
01:09:51,018 --> 01:09:52,727
them good ol' boys,
them good ol' days,
1300
01:09:52,728 --> 01:09:54,394
them good ol' boys.
1301
01:09:54,395 --> 01:09:56,980
And all that proved
is that America
1302
01:09:56,981 --> 01:09:59,858
was not ready to
deal with today.
1303
01:09:59,859 --> 01:10:01,026
They were looking
for one of their
1304
01:10:01,027 --> 01:10:03,236
cinema heroes from
the '30s or the '40s
1305
01:10:03,237 --> 01:10:06,656
to run up and save everything
at the last minute.
1306
01:10:06,657 --> 01:10:08,950
'Cause somebody always
came to save America
1307
01:10:08,951 --> 01:10:12,037
At the last minute,
bottom of the ninth,
1308
01:10:12,038 --> 01:10:14,289
two outs, two strikes,
nobody on base,
1309
01:10:14,290 --> 01:10:18,502
down by 10, don't
worry, somebody will
come to save America.
1310
01:10:20,045 --> 01:10:23,547
Especially in B-movies.
1311
01:10:23,548 --> 01:10:26,175
You see, when I used to go
to a movie as a young man,
1312
01:10:26,176 --> 01:10:28,135
there was always two of 'em.
1313
01:10:28,136 --> 01:10:31,222
There was the one you was
payin' your money to see,
1314
01:10:31,223 --> 01:10:32,848
and then there was
the second one,
1315
01:10:32,849 --> 01:10:35,142
which was like, a B-movie.
1316
01:10:35,143 --> 01:10:38,813
This was the one that
Reagan was usually in.
1317
01:10:38,814 --> 01:10:41,314
And it would either
be an older burner
1318
01:10:41,315 --> 01:10:45,235
or one of them tremendously
patriotic flicks,
1319
01:10:45,236 --> 01:10:46,694
or something with a monkey.
1320
01:10:48,197 --> 01:10:49,405
Hey, the monkey was all right.
1321
01:10:49,406 --> 01:10:50,532
The monkey was cool.
1322
01:10:52,368 --> 01:10:53,618
But what happened
is that America
1323
01:10:53,619 --> 01:10:56,162
looked back for someone
from the '30s or '40s,
1324
01:10:56,163 --> 01:10:59,457
they were actually lookin'
for someone like John Wayne.
1325
01:10:59,458 --> 01:11:02,252
But John Wayne was
no longer available,
1326
01:11:02,253 --> 01:11:06,213
and so they had to settle
for Ronald the Ray-gun.
1327
01:11:06,214 --> 01:11:07,631
And it has given
us all the feeling
1328
01:11:07,632 --> 01:11:10,300
that we are somehow
been cast as supporting
1329
01:11:10,301 --> 01:11:14,471
or non-supporting
characters in a B-movie.
1330
01:11:14,472 --> 01:11:16,765
That be all.
1331
01:11:16,766 --> 01:11:18,642
Come with us back to
those inglorious days
1332
01:11:18,643 --> 01:11:20,102
before heroes were zeroes,
1333
01:11:20,103 --> 01:11:22,604
before fair was square,
1334
01:11:22,605 --> 01:11:24,147
when the cavalry
came straight away
1335
01:11:24,148 --> 01:11:25,858
and all American men
were like Hemingway,
1336
01:11:25,859 --> 01:11:30,194
the days of the
wondrous B-movie.
1337
01:11:30,195 --> 01:11:33,656
The producer, underwritten by
all the millionaires necessary
1338
01:11:33,657 --> 01:11:36,284
will be Casper "The
Defensive" Weinberger.
1339
01:11:36,285 --> 01:11:39,787
No more animated
choice available.
1340
01:11:39,788 --> 01:11:42,039
The director will
be Atilla the Haig,
1341
01:11:42,040 --> 01:11:43,499
frantically running
around declaring himself
1342
01:11:43,500 --> 01:11:46,627
in charge and in control,
the ultimate realization
1343
01:11:46,628 --> 01:11:50,214
of the inmates taking
over at the asylum.
1344
01:11:51,382 --> 01:11:54,467
The screenplay will be from a
book called "Voodoo Economics"
1345
01:11:54,468 --> 01:11:57,095
by George "Papa Doc" Bush.
1346
01:11:57,096 --> 01:11:58,513
A special introduction
1347
01:11:58,514 --> 01:12:02,517
by Ingrid "The Trojan
Horse" Stockman.
1348
01:12:02,518 --> 01:12:07,440
The theme song will be the very
military "Macho, Macho Man"
1349
01:12:08,566 --> 01:12:10,942
♪ Macho, macho man
1350
01:12:10,943 --> 01:12:12,652
Two, three four,
1351
01:12:12,653 --> 01:12:17,198
♪ Your left, your left, your
left, right, left, right ♪
1352
01:12:19,159 --> 01:12:22,161
A little mood music for
saber-rallying and selling
1353
01:12:22,162 --> 01:12:23,454
wars door-to-door.
1354
01:12:23,455 --> 01:12:24,538
Remember, we're looking
1355
01:12:24,539 --> 01:12:25,581
for the closest thing we can get
1356
01:12:25,582 --> 01:12:27,750
to John Wayne.
1357
01:12:27,751 --> 01:12:29,627
Cliches abound like
kangaroos, courtesy
1358
01:12:29,628 --> 01:12:31,670
of some spaced-out
Marlin Perkins.
1359
01:12:31,671 --> 01:12:33,923
You remember Marlin Perkins?
1360
01:12:33,924 --> 01:12:36,425
The old guy that used
to come on Wild Kingdom
1361
01:12:36,426 --> 01:12:39,344
and say things like,
There's my assistant, Jim,
1362
01:12:39,345 --> 01:12:42,013
wrestling with that
alligator, ooh look out, Jim!
1363
01:12:42,014 --> 01:12:43,890
Cliches are bound
like kangaroos,
1364
01:12:43,891 --> 01:12:46,100
courtesy of some
spaced-out Marlin Perkins,
1365
01:12:46,101 --> 01:12:48,019
a Reagan contemporary.
1366
01:12:48,020 --> 01:12:51,022
Cliches like "tall
in the saddle."
1367
01:12:51,023 --> 01:12:53,983
Cliches like "itchy
trigger finger."
1368
01:12:53,984 --> 01:12:57,320
Cliches like "riding on
or off into the sunset."
1369
01:12:57,321 --> 01:13:00,197
Cliches like "get off of
my planet by sundown,"
1370
01:13:00,198 --> 01:13:02,115
more so than cliches like
1371
01:13:02,116 --> 01:13:04,826
"he died with his boots on."
1372
01:13:04,827 --> 01:13:07,287
The man is John Wayne tough,
the man is marine tough.
1373
01:13:07,288 --> 01:13:10,040
The man is Bogart tough,
the man is Cagney tough.
1374
01:13:10,041 --> 01:13:14,253
The man is cheap steak tough,
and Bonzo's substantial.
1375
01:13:15,630 --> 01:13:18,382
Never fooled us for a minute.
1376
01:13:18,383 --> 01:13:20,133
We're looking around
feeling as though
1377
01:13:20,134 --> 01:13:22,386
it went from Hollywood
to hillbilly,
1378
01:13:22,387 --> 01:13:25,262
from liberal to libelous,
from Bonzo to Birch idol,
1379
01:13:25,263 --> 01:13:26,514
born again.
1380
01:13:26,515 --> 01:13:27,932
Civil rights, women's
rights, gay rights,
1381
01:13:27,933 --> 01:13:29,141
it's all wrong.
1382
01:13:29,142 --> 01:13:31,394
Callin' the cavalry,
disrupt this perception
1383
01:13:31,395 --> 01:13:32,728
of freedom gone wild.
1384
01:13:32,729 --> 01:13:34,689
God damn it, first
one wants freedom
1385
01:13:34,690 --> 01:13:37,274
and then they all want freedom.
1386
01:13:37,275 --> 01:13:40,486
Give 'em an inch, and
they'll take a mile.
1387
01:13:40,487 --> 01:13:43,239
Nostalgia, that's
what America wants.
1388
01:13:43,240 --> 01:13:46,033
The good ol' days,
when we gave 'em hell.
1389
01:13:46,034 --> 01:13:47,409
When the buck stopped somewhere
1390
01:13:47,410 --> 01:13:49,369
and you could still
buy something with it.
1391
01:13:49,370 --> 01:13:51,329
To a time when movies
were in black and white
1392
01:13:51,330 --> 01:13:53,540
and so was everything else.
1393
01:13:53,541 --> 01:13:56,209
Lon Chaney, our man
of a thousand faces,
1394
01:13:56,210 --> 01:13:58,253
got nothin' on Ron.
1395
01:13:58,254 --> 01:14:00,880
Doug Henning will do the makeup.
1396
01:14:00,881 --> 01:14:03,968
Special effects by Crazy
Glue and Grecian Formula 16.
1397
01:14:05,428 --> 01:14:06,886
Transportation furnished by
1398
01:14:06,887 --> 01:14:08,763
the David Rockefeller of the
Remote Control Corporation.
1399
01:14:08,764 --> 01:14:12,558
Their slogan is, Why wait
'til 1984? You can panic now
1400
01:14:12,559 --> 01:14:14,852
and avoid the rush.
1401
01:14:16,938 --> 01:14:19,857
So much for the good news.
1402
01:14:19,858 --> 01:14:22,526
As Wall Street goes,
so goes the nation,
1403
01:14:22,527 --> 01:14:24,278
and here's a look at
the closing stocks.
1404
01:14:24,279 --> 01:14:26,947
Racism is up, human
rights are down.
1405
01:14:26,948 --> 01:14:28,866
Peace is shaky,
war items are hot,
1406
01:14:28,867 --> 01:14:30,534
the house claims all ties.
1407
01:14:30,535 --> 01:14:32,703
Jobs are scarce, money
is hard to come by,
1408
01:14:32,704 --> 01:14:36,623
and common sense is at an
all-time low with heavy trading.
1409
01:14:37,499 --> 01:14:39,375
Movies were looking better
than ever, and all of a sudden
1410
01:14:39,376 --> 01:14:41,335
no one is looking
because we all feel
1411
01:14:41,336 --> 01:14:44,047
as though we're
starring in a B-movie.
1412
01:14:44,048 --> 01:14:46,717
And we would have
rather had John Wayne.
1413
01:14:47,509 --> 01:14:50,011
Damn world would've
probably done better
1414
01:14:50,012 --> 01:14:53,723
if we'd a ended up
with John Wayne.
1415
01:14:53,724 --> 01:14:55,808
Help me, y'all.
1416
01:14:55,809 --> 01:14:59,103
♪ You don't have
to be in no hurry
1417
01:15:00,480 --> 01:15:04,067
♪ You don't ever
really have to worry
1418
01:15:05,318 --> 01:15:09,321
♪ And you don't have to
think about how you feel
1419
01:15:09,322 --> 01:15:13,159
♪ Just keep repeating
that none of this is real
1420
01:15:14,202 --> 01:15:17,830
♪ And if you're thinkin'
that something's wrong
1421
01:15:18,706 --> 01:15:20,498
♪ Well just remember that
1422
01:15:20,499 --> 01:15:23,250
♪ It won't be too long
1423
01:15:23,251 --> 01:15:25,878
♪ Before the director,
remember him?
1424
01:15:25,879 --> 01:15:28,005
♪ Cuts the scene
1425
01:15:28,006 --> 01:15:29,757
Nobody is the president.
1426
01:15:29,758 --> 01:15:31,092
We go somebody over there
1427
01:15:31,093 --> 01:15:33,552
who's acting like one,
but to this point here,
1428
01:15:33,553 --> 01:15:34,845
what we believe
in is that nobody
1429
01:15:34,846 --> 01:15:37,641
actually is in charge.
1430
01:15:38,600 --> 01:15:40,018
Ready to go?
1431
01:15:41,561 --> 01:15:43,436
♪ Hey, this ain't
really your life
1432
01:15:43,437 --> 01:15:44,687
♪ Ain't really your life
1433
01:15:44,688 --> 01:15:46,731
♪ Ain't really, ain't
nothin' but a movie
1434
01:15:46,732 --> 01:15:48,191
♪ This ain't really your life,
1435
01:15:48,192 --> 01:15:49,442
♪ Ain't really your life
1436
01:15:49,443 --> 01:15:51,444
♪ Ain't really, ain't
nothin' but a movie
1437
01:15:51,445 --> 01:15:52,862
♪ This ain't really your life
1438
01:15:52,863 --> 01:15:54,114
♪ Ain't really your life
1439
01:15:54,115 --> 01:15:56,157
♪ Ain't really, ain't
nothin' but a movie
1440
01:15:56,158 --> 01:15:57,534
♪ This ain't really your life
1441
01:15:57,535 --> 01:15:58,743
♪ Ain't really your life
1442
01:15:58,744 --> 01:16:01,037
♪ Ain't really, ain't
nothin' but a movie
1443
01:16:01,038 --> 01:16:02,205
♪ This ain't really your life
1444
01:16:02,206 --> 01:16:04,958
♪ And everybody ought to know
1445
01:16:04,959 --> 01:16:06,959
♪ That this ain't
really your life
1446
01:16:06,960 --> 01:16:08,085
♪ Wouldn't do you
1447
01:16:08,086 --> 01:16:09,294
♪ Life like that
1448
01:16:09,295 --> 01:16:11,338
♪ Say, this ain't
really your life
1449
01:16:11,339 --> 01:16:13,465
♪ Ain't nothing but a reel
1450
01:16:13,466 --> 01:16:14,675
♪ And the reel say
1451
01:16:14,676 --> 01:16:16,051
♪ This ain't really,
ain't really that
1452
01:16:16,052 --> 01:16:17,553
♪ Ain't really that, saying this
1453
01:16:17,554 --> 01:16:19,096
♪ With it that really ain't real
1454
01:16:19,097 --> 01:16:20,597
♪ This ain't really your life
1455
01:16:20,598 --> 01:16:23,767
♪ Everybody ought to know
1456
01:16:23,768 --> 01:16:25,435
♪ This ain't really your life
1457
01:16:25,436 --> 01:16:28,105
♪ 'Cause this ain't
how your life would go
1458
01:16:28,106 --> 01:16:29,815
♪ This ain't really your life
1459
01:16:29,816 --> 01:16:32,900
♪ Ain't nothin' but
real to reel shit
1460
01:16:32,901 --> 01:16:34,735
♪ This ain't really
that, really this
1461
01:16:34,736 --> 01:16:37,780
♪ With it this, with it
this really ain't real
1462
01:16:37,781 --> 01:16:39,240
♪ This ain't really your life
1463
01:16:39,241 --> 01:16:40,741
♪ Ain't really your
life, ain't really
1464
01:16:40,742 --> 01:16:42,410
♪ Ain't nothin' but a movie
1465
01:16:42,411 --> 01:16:43,870
♪ This ain't really your life
1466
01:16:43,871 --> 01:16:46,080
♪ Don't worry about nothin',
don't worry about nothin'
1467
01:16:46,081 --> 01:16:48,291
♪ Say, this ain't
really your life,
1468
01:16:48,292 --> 01:16:49,542
♪ Ain't really your life
1469
01:16:49,543 --> 01:16:51,544
♪ Ain't really, ain't
nothin' but a movie
1470
01:16:51,545 --> 01:16:52,920
♪ This ain't really your life
1471
01:16:52,921 --> 01:16:54,254
♪ This ain't really,
ain't really, ain't really
1472
01:16:54,255 --> 01:16:55,422
♪ Ain't really real
1473
01:16:55,423 --> 01:16:57,215
♪ This ain't really your life
1474
01:16:57,216 --> 01:17:00,510
♪ Ain't really, ain't
nothin' but a movie
1475
01:17:00,511 --> 01:17:01,761
♪ This ain't really your life
1476
01:17:01,762 --> 01:17:03,763
♪ Ain't really your life,
ain't really your life
1477
01:17:03,764 --> 01:17:05,098
♪ Ain't really
nothin' but a movie
1478
01:17:05,099 --> 01:17:06,224
♪ This ain't really your life
1479
01:17:06,225 --> 01:17:07,434
♪ Ain't really your life
1480
01:17:07,435 --> 01:17:09,603
♪ Ain't really, ain't
nothin' but a movie
1481
01:17:09,604 --> 01:17:10,770
♪ This ain't really your life
1482
01:17:10,771 --> 01:17:12,022
♪ Ain't really your life
1483
01:17:12,023 --> 01:17:14,816
♪ Ain't really, ain't
nothin' but a movie ♪
1484
01:17:14,817 --> 01:17:18,194
And we would've
rather had John Wayne.
1485
01:17:18,195 --> 01:17:19,486
Odds are, we probably
would've been
1486
01:17:19,487 --> 01:17:23,407
better off with John Wayne.
1487
01:17:23,408 --> 01:17:26,119
Take care, big fella.
1488
01:17:34,127 --> 01:17:38,464
♪ It's the nations's capital,
it's the nation's capital
1489
01:17:38,465 --> 01:17:42,800
♪ It's the nation's capital,
it's Washington, D.C.
1490
01:17:42,801 --> 01:17:47,639
♪ It's the nation's capital,
It's the nation's capital
1491
01:17:47,640 --> 01:17:51,309
♪ It's the nation's capital
it's Washington, D.C.
1492
01:17:51,310 --> 01:17:54,395
♪ You know, It's the
nation's capital,
1493
01:17:54,396 --> 01:17:56,856
♪ It's the nation's capital
1494
01:17:56,857 --> 01:18:01,236
♪ It's the nation's
capital, Washington, D.C.
1495
01:18:01,237 --> 01:18:05,989
♪ It's the nation's capital,
It's the nation's capital
1496
01:18:05,990 --> 01:18:09,993
♪ It's the nation's
capital, Washington, D.C.
1497
01:18:09,994 --> 01:18:12,663
♪ Say, uh-huh it's the capital
1498
01:18:12,664 --> 01:18:15,040
♪ Got you feeling capital
1499
01:18:15,041 --> 01:18:17,125
♪ The punishment is capital
1500
01:18:17,126 --> 01:18:19,670
♪ In Washington, D.C.
1501
01:18:19,671 --> 01:18:24,299
♪ It's the nation's capital,
It's the nation's capital
1502
01:18:24,300 --> 01:18:26,301
♪ Punishment is capital
1503
01:18:26,302 --> 01:18:28,552
♪ In Washington, D.C.
1504
01:18:28,553 --> 01:18:31,055
♪ Say, uh-huh it's the capital
1505
01:18:35,727 --> 01:18:38,104
♪ Washington, D.C.
1506
01:18:44,903 --> 01:18:46,529
♪ Washington, D.C.
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♪ Last time
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♪ Is the capital
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♪ Got me feelin' capital
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♪ Punishment is capital
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♪ Washington, D.C.
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